Felting frenzy

The past week has been a creative one. I had a real felting frenzy and made wet felted shawls by the dozen. Well not really by the dozen but four so far (….and a few more to come I think) Maybe it’s due to the wet, windy and cold weather we have been having. It’s nice to be indoors working with a material that is meant to keep you warm. I tried out different techniques – wet felting on a pure silk fabric, wet felting on a knitted alpaca shawl and wool and linen yarn wet felted together. I had so much fun! And my head is full of new ideas…..lucky for me that Christmas is waiting just around the corner so some of it just might be turned into gifts….


As it was so nice to be indoors I also played around a bit with my photos. I made a collage. I used one of my photos of an autumn flower, two pictures from a magazine and then added a painted background with black ink. I call it "Fear of flying". I was inspired by a drawing made by a friend so it felt natural to give it to him. ( Thanks for the inspiration J). I haven’t tried to draw with ink before but it was great fun! Will definitely do it again.

"Fear of Flying"

Wool wet felted on pure silk fabric

wool wet felted on a knitted shawl made of 100 % alpaca wool

" Halloween"

wool wet felted together with linnen yarn

two colors of wool wet felted together

( sorry for the lousy photo - took it with my cell)

I long for Christmas. I am an absolute Christmas freak sharing my life with a man that doesn’t want to start decorating until the 23rd. We compromise of course…. but we never decorate the tree until the day before Christmas Eve. This year we are going abroad on the 27th of December and won’t be back until the 12th of January so in order to be able to enjoy Christmas at all I have an excuse for starting with the preparations really, really early. Like tomorrow. Oh well, I suppose I have to wait a while more…. But nothing wrong with an early start on making the decorations though… I will keep you all posted.

Take care

Jeanette