Continuing our foray into Wet Felting with Caren Threlfall, we at Lytham St Annes Embroiderers Guild challenged ourselves to make 3D flowers. Here are some of the results. (see post on How to Wet Felt for details on making).
Lovely blues and greens. This flower above could also come from the sea. It maybe an exotic coloured star fish.
It was a challenge to get rounded petals as shown by the pink, blue and aqua example above.
The spindly ones look good too :-)
This one on the left in yellows and greens gives the impression that it originated in the Tropics, as if it were brought to England in Victorian times and grown and cultivated in a Collectors Hot House.
These felted flowers could adorn an outfit worn as a brooch or coursage or simply attached to florists wire and displayed in a vase.
Here is some more of our members work produced in our felting workshop with Caren Threlfall.
These droopy roses are made totally from felt as in the First Stage of Wet Felting ( see How to Wet Felt post) as are the following two examples.
This means that no pre-felt was used so it fibres had to be placed onto bubble wrap first.
Lovely vintage colours used - right.
Above is a hillside scene feature a flock of sheep and some hedges.
It is a shame that the using the camera inside just did not pick up the brilliance of the fibres in this sunset scene. It was awesome.
An apple tree and flowers in a meadow is shown left.
Stay tuned for the next post showing 3D felted flowers.
