Black and White and a Little Bit of Red

Here are the other two pieces of Nuno felt that I did at the Guild earlier this year.
I started out with a piece of fine black cotton voile and then layered the wool fibres finely over the top of it.
Then I put a piece of a black silk scarf that had huge white flower on it over all this.
After the felting process the flowers were all shrivelled up and out of shape and this gave it great texture.
This week I decided to add some stitching to it and I chose red thread to do running stitch around the flowers(but not all of them) and I put a French knot in the centre of the top one.





On the second one I only stitched around one flower and did French Knots in the centre of two of the flowers. (Click on the photos to get a better look at them)

Now all I have to do is decide how to display them.

My Nuno Felting

On Saturday the Creative group at the Guild did Nuno felting.
There were 3 of us who demonstrated the technique but we each used a different way of doing it.
These are the pieces that I made.
The first one is made from pieces of a silk dress.
The patterned fabric was the dress and the plain pink was the lining.
I used the lining as the base and then added the wool tops in two layers and then added the printed fabric on the top.
I used bubble wrap for the felting process and felted it until I had achieved the desired effect.




Here is the reverse of the above piece.
What I intend doing is stitching around the patterns with perle thread in the same colours as the patterns-----and then using the back as the front.
The patterned piece will be base for my design element.

These two pieces are made out of a silk scarfe which was black with off white flowers.

The base fabric is black cotton Voile and the wool tops are black as well.

I intend stitching on these but I am unsure as to how I will do it yet.

I thought that I would make a landscape scene--the top piece is blue silk with white wool scattered to look like clouds.

Next are the hills/mountains and then the foreground.

I used wool tops for this and some throwsters waste as well.

I used white wool tops between the two layers of silk.

This is also a silk scarfe that had mauve flowers on it.

The scarfe was a bit torn in places but it felted really well.

I think this will be a needle case.

This one didn't have a silk layer on top only the wool.

All in all it was a fabulous day--I must admit that I didn't do these all on Saturday--I did some on Sunday at home as well.