This
day at MOPS was "Share Your Wares" with tables set up around the room
perimeter for anyone wanting to display/sell whatever it is they do. So I
set up a table with all the variety of felting I do - from my sculpted
people, landscape pictures, purses, hats, slippers, etc ... along with
selling my cookbook.
I
also did the Devotional for the day, showing one of my Thanksgiving
Tree posters from a past Thanksgiving, and talking about it -
I often get frustrated at the
Thanksgiving table when I ask what people are thankful for. Usually
someone says something silly and then everyone else does. So now on a
large piece of paper I draw a tree, with lots of branches and no leaves,
to hang on the wall. I cut a variety of leaves from colored
construction paper and leave them sit on a counter with a pen and glue
stick. If this is done a week or so before Thanksgiving everyone who
comes to our house can write something they're thankful for on a leaf
and glue it on the tree. Then by Thanksgiving, we've had time to think
beyond tangibles like food, family, God, friends, pets etc to
intangibles like Truth, Love, integrity and then beyond to firemen,
police, doctors ...
The
rest of the time I sat felting wool flowers to go in a vase I made from
'material' I made with my needle-felting machine. The vase's foundation
is craft felt with dyed cheesecloth needled on - the design is created
by needling from the back and the front. Needling from the back forces
the black felt color to the front or whatever colored felt piece I put
on the back. I added beanbag pellets in the vase as a weight. At home
I'd wet felted green wool around pipe-cleaners, then I could just needle
the flowers to them.
I'd
put together some needle-felting kits to sell too. The purses I was
selling used fleece material as their foundation material I used their
design as the guide for machine felting yarn on for more textile
interest, creating a whole new fabric. Some had purse handles made from
braiding fleece strips and yarn together, sewn on. Some smaller purses
had zipper closures.
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| Fleece/Yarn machine felted purse (holding my knitting) |
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| Machine needle-felted material from yarn on craft felt - made into zippered purse |
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| One of the fleece foundational designs with yarns to embed by machine felting |
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| One of the finished fleece machine felted purses |
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| Needle-felted flower added to a wet-felt hat with crocheted edging |
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