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Monday, April 18, 2016

April 2016. Felts. Day 18. Red n White

Red n White
Today, an experiment of sorts. A felting buddy recently told me she uses a CD as a template to make flowers. The floral brooches she creates are simply amazing...delicate, rich in color with lovely, overlapping petals and glittering beads in the center. Without wanting to know all her special techniques, I asked for a few tips so I could play with a different approach to making the flower petals. 

I used the CD as a template, wrapping the wool around it and rubbing the whole thing gently against the bubble wrap to mingle all the fibers. After that, had to trim around the edges and go from there.  I found it cumbersome to use the template so went back to just creating small circles separately. Nice to be able to experiment and play with new techniques. Never know where it will lead or how it will all turn out. One big fun adventure, anyway.

Sometimes deviating from the regular path yields surprising new results. 

This piece, Red n White, is a commissioned piece made of wet felted Merino with stone beads.
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4 comments:

  1. dotty seiter: now playingApril 19, 2016 at 3:58 AM

    Corinna, your flowers are beautiful. The blues and hints of teals that the photo allowed in Sea Rose were soothing and undulating, and I loved the center beads which evoked thoughts of coral. Red n White above brought to mind the spider lace one often sees early in the morning on a lawn or shrub before the dew evaporates.

    My granddaughters like looking at your creations with me : )

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    1. UnknownApril 20, 2016 at 2:41 PM

      Don't you love the dew covered webs and lace that show up in the garden? Some of this wool gets very spindly and leaves a delicate web of sorts on the surface. I'm never really sure how it will look.

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  2. SheilaApril 20, 2016 at 2:25 PM

    Stop already with these gorgeous flowers :) Really, don't stop. The beads in this are like a buried treasure, so delightful. And the white areas, remind me of those cacti that look deceivingly fluffy and soft.

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  3. UnknownApril 20, 2016 at 2:40 PM

    Buried treasure...need to tuck more surprises in the middle or somewhere else. Cactus...now there's a fun idea to run with.....

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