Sheila Smith Workshop

Yesterday I was on Sheila Smith workshop. It was about using stretched prefelt, laminated with silk chiffon, and creating decorative edges. The result is very pleasing, even on these mediocre pictures you can see how soft and delicate my scarf is! I used prefelt made of silk/merino blend and both prefelt and silk were hand dyed in matching colours.



The other participants created truly beautiful pieces, you can see some pictures here

Ray Fish

This is my second cushion, as a Ray Fish!



Very much the same technique and the same resist:

Very Fishy Cushion

I wanted to make a cushion for ages! What stops me - details mainly. What shape and size, how to deal with opening and so on... But eventually I am there!



It's circular inside with solid fins. Wool is merino mainly but of different grades and quality (all my leftovers used!), silk noil in circular details, merino/silk blend on fins, piece of dark blue silk fabrik on the top (to reduce pilling).



These pictures are to show the size. It's approx.32cm x 32 cm without fins and tail:



This is the bottom and how I dealt with opening - 3 large snaps.



The weight is 130 g.

I like it and am going to make more! Watch this place!

New Glass Cases

I make eyeglass cases. I make them a lot. They are all different even if motives are similar, I can't make identical copy in felting! Not sure it's possible at all!

Yes sometimes they look alike and I don't want to overload my blog with the countless pictures of my glass cases... But these two are different for me and I think they are good. Worth showing!

Baby Shark

Usually my felted fish are unidentifiable but this one looks somewhat sharkish!



I am quite happy with the shape and the colour but a long tail and awkward shape made felting a bit difficult. I need to think how to deal with some technical problems...

Laptop Case

I've not posted for ages! Not that I did nothing but I made no pictures of anything, sorry! I've finished laptop case for my husband though...



The choice of colour was his and it's not a carrier just a protective case.



As you can see it's quite large and very simple design so needed to be perfect. I make these carved letters as the only decor. "xYZ" looks scientific (he is a scientist) and "YZ" are his initials as well!



Inside is grey, I wanted to mute the brightness of red. Red Kap Merino, grey carded merino. 220 gr altogether.

Flying Fish

This is my new fish and every detail there is made of ropes - eyes, tail, fins!





At first I made a kind of eyebrows the same way but then change my mind. Here is "Before" and "After"!