Snowy Sahuary

I designed this little sahuaro cacti a few months ago. The cacti body is painted batting. I didn't have the correct green for the sahuaro, so I mixed acrylic paint and painted the batting. I really liked the resulting fabric with a wonderful texture and the perfect color. I drew my cacti shaped pattern and cut the front and back from the painted batting. I then stitched the spines with my sewing machine. I used a decorative stitch and silver thread. I then cut out the mouth and added brown fabric with a reverse applique technique. The snow is white novelty yarns that were attached with my embellishing machine. The two pieces were stitched together with wrong sides together. Sahuary was stuffed with batting and a base of painted batting was added. Buttons were added for eyes. Last a chili pepper necklace was placed around his neck. I've very fond of my Snowy Sahuary. He will be added to my Christmas collection.

Altered Couture "No Sew Sweater"

I just returned from vacation to find my complimentary copy of the Winter issue of Altered Couture magazine. I have two items in the magazine. This is one. The 100% wool sweater has been embellished using a Embellishing (felting) machine. The flower petals are wool fabric that has been felted to the sweater. I them added the strips of a multicolored wool fabric and novelty yarn with the felting machine. The entire upcycled sweater was done with the felting machine. No sewing involved. The sweater and wool fabric were purchased at the thrift store. The novelty yarn was from my stash. I used my Huskystar ER 10 embellishing machine.

Felt Like Summer Felted Postcard

This is my "Felt Like Summer" postcard for a trade in FAT. Fiber Art Traders. This wonderful group has had a felted postcard trade for each season of 2009. I wasn't sure I would be able to participate in the summer trade due to vacations and other commitments but I made it!

The card is felted onto a Peltex base with my Huskystar ER10. Card incorporates felted sari ribbon (beach), decorative yarns (ocean), and wool fibers (sun and sky). Card has been embellished with Angelica fibers, diamond Stickles, beads, and shells. I'm quite pleased with the results. A fun project.

Felting Part Three

Here is an example of organza that has been texturized with the Huskystar ER10. I have tried to show the difference between the texturized part and the original piece of organza. This didn't take long and I really like the texturized organza. I can see many uses for this fabric. One possiblity would be fabric flowers. I plan to use this as a background for another felted piece.

More to come.

Felting Part II

The third layer was to cut out floral motifs from fabric and felt them onto the piece. I really like the addition of the flowers. The next layer was to add yarn to the flowers. I'm not too pleased with this. I guess I'm not very good at outlining the flowers with yarn. Maybe my motifs were too small or maybe I didn't have the correct yarn.

The final piece is going to be the front of a fabric postcard. I have already fused it to some peltex. Just waiting for an address.

Now I'm off to add texture to a piece of organza. I'll let you know how that goes.