The other day I had a go at making a felt vessel – I made a small round vase.
Using turquoise, light and deep blues, merino wool rovings, silk tops and also alpaca, I crafted this little bowl using the wet felting technique, around a resist.
The resist was made from a double-sided piece of bubble wrap (two pieces sticky taped together back to back) and cut to the size and shape of one of my side plates.
After I’d finished, I used the little circle that I cut out to form the opening in the bowl and twisted it into a spiral, sewed on some glass beads, added a turquoise feather and attached it to the bowl.
It looks like a little up-turned hat lol.
I do think it’s cute though. What do you think?
Turquoise bowl
Anyway, as it was a first attempt, and turned out the shape I wanted, and not collapsing in on itself, I’m spurred on to make some more.
My ambitious mind is imagining tall slender vases with added detail, and perhaps some with wispy tops.
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That’s really nice 🙂
I need to practice using a flat resist for vessels, I usually use a ball, and it’s fiddly 🙂
Thanks Zed. 🙂
Lol, I tried using a ball once but it took all the fun out of felting for me! I needed four hands to get the wool on the ball, wet it and have it stay there … and as for getting the stockings over the top 😉 – yes, fiddly is one word I’d used lol.
Using the resist is definitely the way to go for me, it was way easier. I’m also looking at felting around a tall thin rectangular shape (maybe even 3D) and see if I can make a taller vase.
Ha, the stocking! I only tried that once then stuck to netting 🙂 My friend, Lyn makes lots of gorgeous vessels and uses interesting things to shape them http://rosiepink.typepad.co.uk/rosiepink/
Thank you for the link Zed. They are lovely ladies – I had a brief conversation with them a short while ago, as I love their blog. I’m going to search their site in more detail now that you’ve mentioned them again. Thanks. 🙂
(One day when I get organised, I’m going to add a Links section in the menu bar for links like Rosiepink and your own blogs 🙂 ).
Netting’s a good idea – I may give it a go one day.