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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
  Needle Felting 101

I’m happily felting away at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. I do love the needle felting “art.” The wool fibers are beautiful in both texture and color, from the washed and uncarded to the finest Merino wool roving, to the sensuous bamboo yarn. And the colors!!

First a charming attempt to recreate a beautiful landscape photo I had seen. I wanted the horizontal line of the sunset against the darkening night sky, with palm tree and quarter moon.

Palm tree and new moon

The next photo shows an eyeglass case which began its artistic life as a sampler in color blending: from bright yellow through green/yellow unto green itself. Then we did a stand-alone leaf which we felted on, but then we raised the leaf by feathering around its edges. I needle felted a back and then needled the two sides together.

Eyeglass case with leaf

 
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