Felting ready for dyeing

Felting ready for dyeing

I have been preparing a couple of felts for dyeing.  The inspiration is some rocks.

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Thinking through a plan in my note-book for the felts and fibres.

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And laying out ready for felting.  The pieces all use Blue faced Leicester fibre.

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I laid out some dark and some light fibre on the back and felted the pieces.  I stopped felting when the pieces where about 20% shrunk , to check them and to add some hand stitching.

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If you look very closely you can see stitching on the fabrics.

After final felting., they were ready for some more hand stitching and some machine stitching.

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Here the stitching is more visible , with the lovely variation you get , when you combine all the different stitch techniques together.  Ready now for the dye bath.

 

 

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