These are samples of Heidi's work. The hats are wet felting, the birds are needle felting and the fabric type pieces are nuno felting.
We first tried needle felting which is done with a barbed, very sharp needle. We used a plastic cookie cutter to give our piece a shape. Heidi uses a medium grade, short staple wool for best results.
Next we tried wet felting. We placed a thin layer of wool in one direction and another layer in the opposite direction and then placed the piece in a plastic bag. We added a little water mixed with detergent and began rubbing.
Nuno felting is similar to wet felting except that the wool is placed on a piece of silk gauze and then worked into the silk with water and detergent. Very time consuming.
These are our finished samples above. Very interesting.
Trying on Heidi's beautiful items. Butterfly wings.
Several guests tonight.
I belong to the Surface Design Association (www.surfacedesign.org).
One of the perks for me is getting one of the three swatch collections
of actual textile work done by SDA members. I have Collection C right
now that I'm going to bring to the meeting on Wednesday and spread them
out for everyone to look at, touch and talk about. There are 90 12" x
12" pieces in all conceivable fabric techniques--- even some where the
back is completely different than the front.
Jennifer
Show and Tell
https://www.sarafinafiberart.com/default.asp
Priscilla got an honorable mention in the MLH show for the piece above.
The following pictures are what she played with all winter. Using the Gelli printing plate she printed lots of pieces of paper and fabric.
Wendy tried a new technique called Cartonnage. Basically it is a technique of gluing fabric or paper to cardboard. Always best to know a few tricks though.
She bought a kit from Claudia at:
Great site with free tutorials to try.
