Groovy purple hat

  I said in my last post that I’ve been asked to make a felt hat for a Christmas present. The lady wanted purples, maroons and a bit of black.

So here it is – You can see the silk hankies shining through – and the mottled colours blending together.

I’m very happy with how it turned out and want to make one for myself next!

In the next post I’ll diarise the actual process for anyone interested.

If you want to contact me about a commission or any of my felt scarves and other felty things, please contact me via www.aannshajones.com.au

Christmas felt pebbles, brooch & pic

I fancied a change today.  No scarves today, I wanted to do something different. Something cute. Something small.

Felted Christmas pebbles

Wet felted Christmas pebbles approx 5x3cm

So I collected some pebbles from the garden and felted them in Christmas colours;

red with green silk,

white with red silk,

green with red silk,

white with purple silk,

purple with white silk and a touch of sparkly gold Angelina fibre.

Yummy!!

I’ve also covered one pebble in dark blue with lighter blue silks and I think I will be embroidering a star on that one.

I think these will make lovely little stocking fillers, or Christmas table decorations.

Then I made a…

15x15cm Felt picture

This is of an evening nature scene, 15x15cm which I will stick onto a canvas of the same size.

Here are a couple of pics of the layout and the picture itself.  The first one is of the layout, mainly of merino wool, with some silk tops, a little Angelina fibre in the sky, some nepps as stars, some silk noile flowers and a little bit of silk sari for patterning in the foreground.  The photo of the layout was taken in daylight and the one of the finished painting was taken in artificial light this evening, so there’s a bit of a difference with the hues.

Layout for nature evening scene

Wet felted picture 15x15cm of evening nature scene

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Needle felted brooch – country scene

Then, with time to spare, I got out my felting needle and a large button for sizing, and felted a little nature scene with a poppy in the front, which I stuck onto the button, after I’d attached a brooch clasp to the back.  Here are a couple of photos of this.  It is very cute, and only 4cm in diameter.

I thoroughly enjoyed making these different objects and I’ll make some more smaller, and different items, which I’ll be able to display for my customers at the two pre-Christmas markets that I’ll be attending.

Felt brooch back

Brooch: Needle felted scene 4cm diameter

Bespoke Gift Ideas!

Wanting something unusual, unique, sumptuous for a friend or loved one for a special occasion and know they’d love a piece of wearable art? Or a stunning felted wall hanging? Or quirky felted bowl or other unique item?

Here are some ideas:

Summer Scarf (nuno felted onto tissue silk)

Summer scarf with zig zag detail

Summer scarf with circles and free flow design

Summer scar with larger detail in complimentary colour

Network Scarf (lots of merino and varieties of silk)

Blue network scarf with lots of hand dyed silk – hankies, tops, chiffon and dimensional yarn. Blues, turquoise green.

Red network scarf with lots of hand dyed silk – hankies, tops, chiffon and dimensional yarn. Reds, oranges, maroon.

Skinny framework network scarves

Summer Scarf with Flower detail (nuno felted onto hemmed 100% silk scarf)

Hemmed soft, drapable nuno felted silk scarf with poppies at either end.

Closeup of nuno felted flower scarf – Fantasy flower – tissue silk, merino, silk hankies, silk tops, cotton scrim – all hand dyed

Iris inspired summer flower scarf nuno felted with 15micron merino and hand dyed silk hankies and silk tops felted onto tissue silk. Blues, greens.

Poppies! Nuno felted summer scarf with tissue silk, merino wool, silk noile, silk tops, silk hankies.

Jewellery made with felt and/or beads/freshwater pearls

Jewellery made with hand-made felt roll, embroidery and beading.

Jewellery made with hand-made felt “bead”, embroidery and beading.

Jewellery made with hand-made felt, embroidery and beading.

Jewellery made with hand-made felt balls, and beading.

3D rose brooch drying on a rack in the kitchen.

Wall hangings and felt paintings

Diptyche of poppies. Wet felted with beading.

Wet felted wall hanging of Moffat Beach

Beach wall hanging, drying

Country scene ’round’ felt painting 15cm

Completed wall hanging, with added details in embroidery and needle-felt.

Vases, bowls, books and more…

Two glass vases with the different styles of felted covering

Felt Covered Note Book

Green and orange felted bowl

Glasses case multi coloured – front view

Turquoise bowl

3 felted purses in a row

Midnight sky nuno felt evening bag

These colours remind me of the beach! Various felted goodies.

“Flotsam & Jetsum” Beach inspired mobile

Some ideas for Christmas

Ensure your gift is ready for Christmas!

Now is a good time to put in your order for a commissioned scarf or other piece of felt art.

As these are hand made items, and each piece takes several hours to make, if you order now you can ensure your order will arrive in time to gift it at Christmas.

If you let me know which out of the scarves or other items you’ve seen on this blog that you like, and give me an idea of the colours or style you are after, I will do the rest!

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Two more scarves for the markets

Nov ’13 Glasshouse Market stall

Yesterday, along with the Poppy Scarf, I also made a couple more nuno felt scarves using a hand-dyed piece of chiffon that I cut into one thin and one wider strip. I was very industrious as I was working towards today’s Glasshouse Market stall, and the next few markets before Christmas.

Without going into the ins and outs of the whole production, here are some photos of the finished scarves.

Summer scarf in rose, lavender, heliotrope and yellow on hand-dyed tissue silk using lighter dye bath of same colours.

Close up of narrow summer scarf nuno felted onto tissue silk. Colours include lavender, heliotrope and rose.

Close up of summer scarf in rose, lavender, heliotrope and yellow – modelled by a lady wearing a rose top.

Slim summer scarf tied as belt

Summer scarf nuno felted onto tissue silk using merino wool on tissue silk, with silk hankies and silk tops. Hand dyed colours include lavender, heliotrope and rose.

Hemmed soft, drapable nuno felted silk scarf with poppies at either end.

New hemmed silk poppy scarf

Hemmed soft, drapable nuno felted silk scarf with poppies at either end.

I was fortunate enough to meet a textile artist the other day who told me where to source hemmed silk scarves in Australia.

I liked that idea because during our summer months the heat and humidity does make the wool on the edging of even my summer scarves a tad warm.  Using hemmed scarves means I can still felt beautiful details and pictures onto the silk, but without ‘hemming’ with wool along the edges to prevent fraying, as I have done up until now.

Of course, I still love my tissue silk and will continue to purchase that as well, because the effect you can get on this lightweight material is gossamer fine.  The hemmed silk scarves I have just obtained are slightly less open weave than the tissue silk, but when I opened the pack, I blew through one and knew that with a tad more rubbing, I could still felt it.

These scarves are gorgeous, with such a sheer lustre to them, I couldn’t wait to felt onto one.

Hemmed silk scarf with nuno felted poppies

This morning I set about another poppy scarf as I loved the effect of the original one I made recently.  This one is a slightly different design but still uses fine merino wool as well as silk hankies and tops along with a little Angelina fibre to get that glow that brings light-catching properties to the matt of the wool.

Gawd, I love textile art!

Hemmed silk scarf showing 3 poppies nuno felted at one end

I figured wispy merino would probably migrate more through the netting during felting than onto the scarf, so I used prefelt pieces ‘stuck’ down with merino rovings, and with the wool and silk details applied on top.

I was right about needing to work it harder, but I reckon the finished effect is well worth the effort. During the felting, some of the red dye from the hand-dyed wool transferred to the white silk scarf, giving it a delicate hint of palest red, which works very well with the bold reds, black and green of the poppies.

Hemmed silk scarf so sheer you can see my hand through it!

The finished scarf is gorgeous! It’s lightweight, sheer, lustrous and has a lovely tailored look with the hand hemmed edges and the felted poppies at each end have a painted effect that I love.  I will definitely be felting the others in a similar way.

Hemmed silk scarf showing nuno felted single poppy at one end

I reckon this will make someone a delightful Christmas present.  It is one of a kind, and art in textile as well as sumptuous materials, sheer for Australian summer yet warm for winter – that’s the beauty of silk.

Fantasy flower nuno felt scarf

Keeping on a theme of undyed tissue silk as a base for my scarves, which I rather like as it allows the bold colours of the flowers to stand out, I have taken lots of hand dyed silk, cotton scrim, silk tops and hankies and added them to both ends, to create a fantasy flower effect.  Adding a hint of Angelina fibre to the centres of the flowers, catches the light and gives a subtle dash of sparkle.

This one predominant colours are rose, lavender and heliotrope, with some aqua green for leaves.

The long edges of the scarf are more fluted than usual too, as I laid the wool in a different direction this time as I wanted more of a softer, cobwebby effect, which I am happy with.

Blue and pink flower scarves together

Nuno felt scarf – Fantasy flower – tissue silk, merino, silk hankies, silk tops, cotton scrim – all hand dyed

Closeup of nuno felted flower scarf – Fantasy flower – tissue silk, merino, silk hankies, silk tops, cotton scrim – all hand dyed

Iris inspired nuno felt scarf

Home made cranberry chocolate (and hazelnut coffee).

Today after planting out some herbs, fetching dog food, cooking a roast dinner, and testing some new chocolate moulds with cranberries in dark chocolates, I made another nuno felt scarf.

I really loved the poppy inspired scarf that I made for the art expo the other week, so I thought I would make another one only using a different flower for inspiration.

This time I went for an iris.  Yesterday I hand dyed some silk tops and hankies in yummy turquoise, indigo and green so I had some additions for my network scarf (that I blogged about yesterday).

I had plenty of silk left, so I used this to embellish the iris on one end of the scarf, and used a couple of the silk hankies for ‘iris’ shapes on the other end.

Using the beautiful blues and greens silk rovings I added highlights to the borders and a few inlays along the scarf length on which I’d first laid fine cream 15 micron merino rovings.

This is the scarf half-felted:

And here’s the finished result, modelled beautifully by the lovely Jill.  Thank you Jill.

Iris inspired summer flower scarf nuno felted with 15micron merino and hand dyed silk hankies and silk tops felted onto tissue silk. Blues, greens.

Iris inspired summer flower scarf nuno felted with 15micron merino and hand dyed silk hankies and silk tops felted onto tissue silk. Blues, greens.

New network scarves

As Christmas is around the corner with only three markets before then, I’m making more treasures for my stall.

The latest two little beauties are network scarves – one in reds and oranges, the other in blues and turquoise.

Each have inlays of silk chiffon, silk hankies and silk tops all of which I hand dyed first.  The silk ensures a fabulous lustre to the scarves.  That, plus dimensional yarn snaking along the length of each one, gives each scarf a rich, interesting finish that is enhanced by the complimenting, striking colours.

Red network scarf with lots of hand dyed silk – hankies, tops, chiffon and dimensional yarn. Reds, oranges, maroon.

Blue network scarf with lots of hand dyed silk – hankies, tops, chiffon and dimensional yarn. Blues, turquoise green.

Red and b lue network scarves with lots of hand dyed silk – hankies, tops, chiffon and dimensional yarn.