some more black and white

As I showed some days ago

I immediately started stitching

on another black and white piece of felt.

This felt is not as even as the first piece,

because of the extra black pre-felt circles

I laid on top of the white wool tops.

(but that hasn't any influence on the stitching)

I didn't put any white pre-felt on the black wool :

the black fibres would migrate up through the white !

I now have a new tool for the patterns on the wool :

a pen with  white  acrylic ink.

It works very good 

it is just visible and it rubs off easily.

For the white parts I still use the paper templates.

The name :

"Wheels of time"

stitching on black and white

Almost a year ago 

a dear Stitch'nBitch friend from Rotterdam

asked me about the black-and-white felting

I did for the felting-exchange back then.

I kind of got a commission to make a bigger piece

just like those (which were post card size)

All this time

that commission was somewhere in the back of my mind,

but I never came to work out my ideas for it.

Untill this week ! 

I made five little sketches (no bigger than 4 cm)

chose one and started to lay out the merino wool tops

some viscose strips for the nuno parts.

White I had enough, but the black and gray were my last bits.

I ended up with the desired square of 30 x 30 cm.

When it was completely dry I started stitching

with black cotton and white silk thread.

(I used paper templates to keep my circles steady)

This is the finished piece

and I named it

 "Moon, where are you ?"

Well, here she is ..... !

My dear friend liked it and it will get a place on the wall 

in her new house

;-)

It's well known that : one thing leads to another,

that's true for felting as well 

So I made the next square and started stitching on that one.