Monday, May 28, 2007

Free-hand felting.........

I've taken a little time, this weekend, to work on some free-hand felting. I've always liked to paint and thought I'd try my hand at "felt painting". I purchased a new felting book, recently entitled "Indygo Junction's Needle Felting". It's a wonderful book and has patterns in it for different things like flowers, leaves, etc .
I decided to just do it! I love to pick out colors of wool roving; mix them together and just "paint" directly on the surface I've chosen. In this case, it is a green-felted purse. The green in the purse is a little hard to catch with this picture, but it's a fern green but on light side.
This is still a work in progress but thought I'd share what I have so far. I intend to add a small butterfly and then I will do the back in a more simpler way and add some leaves and stems to the purse strap.
Have a safe and happy Memorial Weekend everyone!
Love, Marilyn

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Marilyn.. this is cool.. I have this book too.. I love it...

Laura said...

Marilyn, this is beautiful!! Oh, no, not another book that I'm going to want to buy... Laura J

Anonymous said...

Marilyn...this is so darling and i love the colors.

Patti G. said...

Marilyn, How neat! I love the free style "painting" you did with this roving! WOW! You are doing ggggreat with this! The purse is adorable too, all of it! Your art below for the tenth anniversary for somerset.......SUPER! I love it!
Hugs,
Patti

Mieke said...

Wow,this is so lovely!!!