Wet Felting, Week 32 Journal Piece

Fellow fiber artist, Frances Krueger-Jackson offered to teach me and a friend how to wet felt.

The process startes with laying out the roving on a sheet of bubble wrap

You can see how beautiful and rich the colors of the fibers are

Next we get the fibers sopping wet with soapy water

We put another layer of bubble wrap over the fibers

roll it up with a towel and rock the roll it back and forth for 15 minutes

This is just the first step in getting the fibers to hold together

There were several steps of beating, rubbing, and slapping of the piece

to make sure the fibers all held together securely

Here is the finished piece

It was a lot of fun and a lot of work to make

and I look forward to doing it again soon

Week 27-30

Week 27, Tracking

An experiment with fabrics and beads

Week 29, St. Patrick's Day

Represents the fun we had going out for corned beef sandwiches and Guinness

on a beautiful sunny and warm St. Patrick's Day

Week 30, Spring

An experiment with reverse applique

I layers the color fabrics under the black, stitched the shaped,

then cut the shapes out of the black to reveal the color fabric