Wet felting is great fun and you can create the most beautiful things, but I find all the rubbing really hard on my hands (what a wimp!) so I don't play around with it very often. I have, however, come to the conclusion that felt is the most wonderful fabric on the planet - it is versatile, so easy to sew with and, best of all, it doesn't fray! Simple sheets of machine made felt have made a great backing fabric for these hearts.
In a perfect world I'd be backing these with beautiful Harris Tweed, but I looked at the cost and it would mean a fair an investment on my part and a higher retail price to pass on to my customers.
I've made a few hanging hearts with three dimensional, fluffy animals.
Here's another use for those old maps I keep talking about!
The trees are nice and fluffy, made from gorgeously soft silk laps.
And here are a couple of boats for all you sea lovers!
I especially like the map ones. But they are all lovely.
ReplyDeleteHow cool Kate, love your hearts <3 ! The maps are a great idea, and everything is sooo colourful..would love to have a squidge! Roll on feelyvision!
ReplyDeleteAli x
Those hearts are so cute and would make a beautiful gift.
ReplyDeleteLove the highland cow:o) Those maps are perfect with the trees, very clever.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the cost of the tweed . Eeek!. Have you considered 'felted' jumpers. I did it by accident the first time ( oops!) but now I trawl charity shops for wool jumpers to use. I prefer the chunky texture to that of machine felt and it probably works out as reasonably priced
Thanks for all the lovely comments :)
ReplyDeleteI've tried felting charity shop jumpers but it didn't work very well. Maybe they weren't pure wool?