waves

I always loved the undulating sides of some scarves.

( normally you try to make the sides of your felt flat

and definately not with waves ! )

Altough I 'd never done this before

I had a rather good idea how it must work :

so much of the end result is preordained

by the way you lay out the wool rovings.

Apart from the waves I wanted

some leaves too

I left the ends of the leaves untouched

so they would felt in with the rest or the scarf

... and this was the result : just as planned

;-)

( hmmm ... sometimes it's just your lucky day )

something new

Always when I'm floating around on the internet

I find new interesting things and ideas.

Quite some times I'm amazed

what people are making :

so many beautiful things are being made !

In the "felting business" I like very much what Gabi is doing :

I love her animals and "persons"

they're friendly and funny !

( I love it when people put some humour in their art,

like Annette Quentin-Stoll who wrote two wonderful books about felting )

I did my first try-out on figures a few days ago :

a little chicken

... and admired Gabi's work a lot more after that !

She gave a lot of good advise on her site

( but I had to cheat at the comb and the tail :

sorry, I used a felting needle ...! )

Although this wet-felting figures technique isn't quite so easy

I had another go today.

... started wrong, cheated again, this time with thread and needle ...

... had some better wool to fit all together ...

( a lot depends on the kind of wool you work with ! )

... and here the little fella finally was after some good hours of work

in his own soapy swimming pool !

I like him ( her ? )

although there isn't a real face yet.

That will come later

( and hair and cloths ofcourse .... )

ideas bubbling up

Although I love to stitch on "Water"

it is still felting-time at the moment.

After finishing my blue bag

( and showing it off on Saturday )

there are still more and more ideas that I want to try,

most of the time one leeds to another !

I did something in special colours today

but I don't want to show too much ...

( probably later, I don't want to spoil someone's present ! )

And a bit more blue ....

Ha, I love it só much when it becomes exactly as I wanted it to be ....

( still a lot more things to try ....! )