Sunday, January 29, 2012

A Hot Sunday Afternoon !!

Hi Everyone,
Its a gorgeous day today, bit hot outside so i thought i'd stay in and do some felting today.  First after checking out our Studio site i found that Ruth had put up the Felting Around the Web Post. She always seems to find some really great links so i thought before i start felting i'd have a go at making some Skeleton Leaves
http://feltingandfiberstudio.com/

What a joke,  i used mainly gum leaves and few others i found and after simmering away in the solution for nearly 2 hours this is what i ended up with.  No skeletons in there lol   nothing i did would take off the outter green leafy bits and the whole pot just went to absolute mud. Smelt like rotten peas to lol
Anyway i did have some fun watching and seeing what or if anything would happen and took some lovely pics for you to see haha


                    This is after almost 2 hours of simmering away, it was a thick slushy mess


Still leaves,  and not even soft enough to strip away the green outter layer, in fact as they cooled down they became as stiff as a board lol  Dont think i'll be trying that again and now i have to clean that pot  lol  




While waiting for that to do what it was suppose to do i layed out some more fibres to make another sheet of felt.  I used BFL with lots of threads, silks, organza, and rainbow nylon.  Some of the organza didnt really want to felt in but i'll stitch that down when i decide what i'm doing with it
         
                                                                Before Felting


                                                            

After Felting , it has a nice sheen with the nylon  
 


Happy Felting xo

5 comments:

  1. LOL - sorry karen - I don't ever know if the suggested posts are really worth trying or not. Maybe it was the type of leaf. I guess we'll have to see if anyone else experiments. Sounds pretty stinky!! Love your felt. :)

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  2. LOL Ruth you dont have to be sorry, Judith did this to and it worked. It was fun to try anyway but i wont be doing it again lol

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  3. I usually love these kind of experiments but not sure this one is worth the smell and mess . On the other hand the felt work looks great .

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  4. Had to laugh at your leaf stew. But, your felting makes up for it. Just another experiment gone bad. Tomorrow is another day.

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  5. lol Thanks Girls, its all in the fun of learning and Judy yes, there's always tomorrow lol

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