Had an urge to do some felting this weekend as still trying to rest wrist but needing to do something creative. You know the feeling when a design is inside and you have to try and get it out? So this is a picture of the base of my most recent project.

I started with a piece of felt and placed roving all over it to create the background. Then I cheated and used some collinette point 5 yarn to make the stems of the plants along with more roving. I gently needle felted it by hand to keep it in place before running it through the embellisher.

Finally I wetted it all down and sort of half felted it, mainly to get rid of the holes the embellisher left in the roving.

Now it's hanging on the line to dry before we start the next part which will be machine embroidery, hand embroidery and beads.

It's supposed to be a garden but Dave said it looks like a backing for a fish tank! So we will see whether it ends up being watery or a garden!

This is what it looked like after the inital machine embroidery.

I'm no longer an Etsy virgin! First sale this morning...very exciting and hope more follow in its wake!

Well the break from knitting has been broken...naughty but still! Well the fact that the Olympics are on and it rained at the weekend was the perfect excuse to start a bag I've been planning for a while.
First time I've tried to felt a 50/50 mix and the first round at 40 degrees didn't do much, so then I did a almost too hot hand wash and it's looking better.
I plan to needlefelt a design on the front so will do the last wash in the machine at 60 degrees and hopefully that will be it!