French Press 3

Black mohair, Alpaca/Silk, Merino and white mohair content. Same size as French Press Cover 1 & 2.
The aborigine and seafoam- green are New Zealand wool. The green wool has some unidentified content which I suspect is mohair as it has many wispy hairs. Because of the strong design element of the strand of white mohair, no handle to top tassel is necessary.

French Press Cover

Felted French Press

At home, I use a four-cup stove top espresso maker, however when entertaining, it is not very convenient. I like the whole idea of a French Press Table presentation but the coffee cools much too quickly. While I have been making tea cozies for friends, it only seemed appropriate to make something for myself. I am only a one cup tea drinker contrasting to the multiple cups of coffee consumed daily so why not a cozy for the French Press?  I have acquired some lovely black mohair ( from angora goats) and mixing it with the white mohair gives a nice sheen, with a curly texture so I am using it on the top layer of foundation of merino wools.  The tassels are  rolled wool–these a tad crude but have become rather exotic in later cozies.  A particularly striking combination of colors is black mohair,  a sea-foam green spirals with strands of white mohair gingerly placed on top.

French Press Cover

French Press Cover2

6 C French Press with Cover

Joseph’s Scarf of Many Colors

I call this piece Joseph’s scarf of many colors. it is my first attempt to nuno felt, the base is a cotton gauze, with metallic threads. I nuno felted with various fresh colors then embellished with satin ribbons and scraps of silk hence the title. the rayon thread adds another dimension of sheen in comparison to the soft alpaca wool.

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Joseph's Scarf

Ummmmmm

I currently am distracted by unwarranted circumstances. I normally can press through once I enter my magical work studio, NOT SO, yesterday. Instead of leaving I reworked a previous project. LOL I am still not satisfied, the passion for working with these colors is sorely lacking and so back on the shelf it will go. It seems I have played out my hand with functional items and am returning to the painting with Felt concept, I began with in January. The angora, mohair, merino wools just feel so sumptuous I wanted them near my body or to use them in daily life as in the tea cozy. Nonetheless my passion is more for conceptual visual communication .

Wow, These Tea Deals

Seems word has spread bout my tea cozy and friends are clamoring for them, there always seems to be an occasion birthday, house warming, thank you gifts. Looks like I will make a batch of them in various colors as I did for the glass photo frames–which are great for last minute gifts. Since NOT doing art work but am refining my wet /dry felting skills. On the Purple one I put mohair under the purple and it seemed to work nairs to the surface… lesson learned: swirl it instead of total coverage. I am drawing closer to resolving the foot for the cozy.

Alpaca Merino Piece

This experiment was dealing with not only new materials, Merino and Alpaca wool,  but overlaying white over dark. At this point I  am void of a function for this piece or how to develop it farther. It does need either slashing or stitching as the visual appeal is not strong enough to stand on its own.   The  piece is rather thick with approximately nine  layers of wool roving (the normal is 4-5), as my initial plan was to slash the surface revealing the lovely colors underneath.  However, the surface resulted in  such a delightful wonderful touch,  it reminds me of baby’s skin: soft and unblemished. I am apprehensive to  into slice it.  This  shyness reminds me of the first time I designed a piece of fabric that was perfect,  and then,  I cut it into pieces  for quilting, or held a perfectly new, expensive, wedding gown cutting it apart to modify it.  Yes, the  is a fear of the unknown is screaming out but perhaps it is  more a lack of confidence in my abilities that are holding me back.  So the piece will have to mellow or age before I can proceed with the shears.

Experiment 21

experiment 21 Alpaca Merino

Mohair Clutch7

Challenges and more challenges were on the menu today. Using a new Mohair roving in a raspberry color, layered with varying hues of pinks, watermelon, scarlets,  canary, sherbet orange and some cream, to achieve this clutch. The mohair is either just meant to be “hairy” or it is mixed with a non feltable fiber like nylon. I had to full this piece two times and there were so many loose surface hairs. The second fulling was achieved with a tumble  in the dryer for ten minutes. This tightened the fibers yet the outside STILL had numerous wispy fibers. I ironed it heavily concluding that it was still not fulled properly, then, I realized the mohair was the culprit.  Dimension: 5″ x 12″

Mohair clutch 8

Satchel for Lappy Computer

One of my more challenging resist felted pieces as I was forming it around a piece of foam 3 inches thick. The wool kept shifting into lumps so it was brushed and fulled multiple times. In the end I preferred the inside greens to the outside of blues and purples.

Sctchel for HP Lappy

here is the original all the blue and purples were a bit too much for the eye but are totally delightful on the sideside.. kind of a surprise after it is opened.

front with flap

Lindeeg

I did a posting on some work that a friend created , then removed the graphics . NOW, that wordpress has increased the storage limit to 3G, here are more of Lindee’s work. Lindee and I share laughter and can do so for decades over the silliest of incidents. We both were never allowed to be children as children thus we relive/share our childhood wackiness with the help of her hubby (the pun king)