Tag: Hand Stitched

Letter Keeper I received

This letter keeper, made of embossed felt and black felt applique, was what I received in a swap.  I sent off a letter keeper of the same size in green with contrasting embroidery floss hand stitching — wish I kept a picture of it!

redroad/blue sky

This is a 1.5×2 metre artquilt made from hand dyed wool prefelt, which is then, needlefelted and overlaid with assorted cotton fibres, merino wool and fine silk. After carefully creting the background the piece was machine quilted and heavily nneedlefelted  to manipulate and create the look of a road after the rain and muddy. The…

felted mask

It's knitted, wet-felted &stitched. I wear it around the house from time to time, but it's very hardto see out of it. Nevertheless, if I don't want someone to recognize me…it's absolutely perfect!!

The Fish

The fish is needle felted with stitching on a backdrop of my hand-made paper embellished with buttons & wet-felted pebbles.

Peacock

Stitched on a hand dyed background of linen with added touch of pulled threads, I stitched with metallic thread, on a scrap of nuno felted silk and hand batik colored tissue paper .  The fibers of the various types and colors of wool were felted into a chiffon silk and then embellished with glass beads,…

Felted Wool Monster Beaded Necklace

This necklace is a combination of my interest in needle felting, beading, embroidering and wire working. The monsters were created by needle felting their bodies with wool roving, sewing on felt eyes and embroidering their mouths. I used wire to string the monster beads and other wool embroidered beads onto the beaded necklace.  

If you ask MY opinion

Miss "My Opinion" was made by "felting" fabric onto fabric and wool roving for the hair and blouse on my 7 needle embellisher. The image was then handsewn appliqued onto paper fabric and bordered with paper sewn on by machine. The lettering is also paper sewn by machine.

"Felt" an art jounal

"Felt" is th theme of this handmade book. A play on words, all ten pages have an image about feelings. Cover made with hot water felt, detail stiched in and re-felted. Cloth paper used to strengthen. Lettering from alternate colour hot water felt. Wool stiching on edge, handmade botton. Ten dryer sheet pages collaged and…