When I knew I was going to be away from home from my felting studio and all my felting fluff, yet still with some felting time , I decided to keep it simple and just take black and white fibre with me . Black to make some jewellery and white to make a textured piece for my course.
The textured piece required me to make cords , balls and use resists to capture the texture of my theme . I deliberately kept it all small , no space to do otherwise!
Here are the balls and cords, with a few wooden beads thrown in.
The final piece , I think giving some impression of waves and rocks , well maybe. I am cross with myself for making a mistake I have made many times , placing the beads and the balls too close together to be really effective.
For my black theme I have been playing with incorporating beads and buttipons into rings and brooches . I think one of the keys is to make sure the bead or button is very secure and can't rock before you start felting. Easy to say , but quite hard to achieve on such a small scale.
Here my brooches , which need a little bit of stitching to be finished.
My rings are less successful . I intended to remake two of them , because also they look OK in the photo , I am not happy with the feel of them.
Still some more black and white time available so that should be easy.
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Love the white texture piece Jane !
ReplyDeleteCan't see the rings very good .... looks like the light comes from behind ???
Better the other way round ?
Ha, clever to take black and white with you ;-)
I am not sure I know a good way to photograph rings - have you any ideas ?
DeleteLoving the texture piece, lots of interesting elements to look at but I particularly like how you have attached the beads... very clever!
ReplyDeletethanks Teri , I just need to discipline myself to space them better.
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