Saturday 5 November 2011

The wonders of wool

Just spent a very happy day learning to make felt. Thanks to Pat Robertson for good teaching and lots of lovely coloured fleece...

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  1. such lovely colours in those pieces! I taught myself to make felt out of shed rabbit fur, I've not perfected the technique but the felt is lovely and soft...

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  2. Ah, rabbit fur must be gorgeous to work with. The mat is my tribute to sphagnum moss, and has some bits of moss worked into it. I am regularly struck dumb by all the colours in the bogs here, and have often wondered if it might be possible to make a bog-moss tapestry. So it was the automatic place for me to start. And as for the buttercup slippers...

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