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Wool love-functional fiber art: November 2014
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Silk-Embellished Travel Purse- Part 2 of 4. Laying out an internal pocket on side two. Covering the entire resist with a layer of wool roving. Plus a layer of cotton scrim. Adding bright roving stripes to the bag surface. And also to its 'flanged' bottom. Thin plastic is used to keep the bottom from 'felting into' the bag sides.). Folding it down to make a neat edge.
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Wool love-functional fiber art: Tunic Class- Part 3 of 3
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Tunic Class- Part 3 of 3. Placing thin, 'painter's plastic'. Between the overlapping layers, front and back. I trim around the embellishments. To make them more 'overt'. ;). The fully felted tunic back. Once rinsed and dried. I embroider around the embellishments. With burgundy, boucle yarn. To help define my decorative elements. Festive and full of colour! The Vonda Pr...
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Wool love-functional fiber art: Beaded Drawstring Jewelry Bag- Part 1 of 2
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Friday, August 14, 2015. Beaded Drawstring Jewelry Bag- Part 1 of 2. Drafting a foam underlayment resist. And adding decorative elements. Fashioned by my cousin, Wendy. For the center spirals. Glass beads are threaded onto a piece of wool yarn.). A layer of blended silk and merino roving is added. And the project is flipped to side two. Wool that extends from side one. Is wrapped around the resist.
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Wool love-functional fiber art: Ice, Ice Baby- Part 2 of 2
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Ice, Ice Baby- Part 2 of 2. Keep watch over our ice dyeing. :). After a delicious, healthy lunch. Our silk is starting to take on color! Marsha examines her dyed silk. Of course, mine is the orange. Meanwhile, back in the kitchen. Our wool roving is stewing. Overall, I'm quite pleased with our efforts. Especially the ice dyeing. Of the silk pongee. And the silk chiffon.
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Wool love-functional fiber art: Tunic Class- Part 2 of 3
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Monday, August 10, 2015. Tunic Class- Part 2 of 3. Our instructor, the brilliant Pam de Groot. Helping one of my lovely classmates. Pam brought several of her beautiful tunics along. Laying out my pattern pieces. And cutting the silk. Using sturdy nylon thread. Are basted to the front of my tunic. Next time: the finished project! What a glory of colour this will be! August 10, 2015 at 1:53 PM.
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Wool love-functional fiber art: Ice, Ice Baby- Part 1 of 2
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Ice, Ice Baby- Part 1 of 2. My beautiful friend and 'dye guru', Marsha. Tying off superfine merino with lengths of nylon cord. Soaking our silk chiffon and pongee. And choosing powdered dye colors. From her extensive stash. Attempting 'ice dyeing' for the first time. We layer a mesh screen, silk, cubed ice and powdered dye. And let them alone to 'work their magic'! Deconst...
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Wool love-functional fiber art: October 2014
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Friday, October 31, 2014. Fiona's Highly "Illuminating" Workshop- Part 3 of 3. With its 'jack o' lantern'-like appearance. Seems like an apt one for a Halloween post, doesn't it? Here are its spooky 'innards'. A metal ring with three braces leading to a center hole. Plus an cord set like this. Conceptually, I imagined an oblong, exterior shape. Filled with a second, spherical shape. Luckily, this ...
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Wool love-functional fiber art: August 2015
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Sunday, August 30, 2015. The 'Vonda Project'- Part 3. Laying out variegated, brick-red wool. And coupling it with orange! Wetting out the piece. Laying out white wool roving. In a rectangular shape. And adding snippets of silk paper. Wetting out the project. Cutting circles from the finished felt. And machine-stitching around them. Friday, August 28, 2015. The 'Vonda Project'- Part 2. Of the heel ...
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Wool love-functional fiber art: April 2015
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Sunday, April 12, 2015. Table Topper for a 'Green-Loving' Friend. Laying out a layer of superfine merino roving. And covering it with variegated, mixed-wool roving. After flipping the project to side two. Adding an additional layer of merino. Wetting the project out. And folding in the edges for a neat appearance. Adding narrow lengths of variegated silk-and-wool roving. Side of the table topper.
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Wool love-functional fiber art: May 2015
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Wool love-functional fiber art. The function of the artist is to express reality as felt. Robert Motherwell. Saturday, May 30, 2015. French Press' Cozy- Part 1 of 2. With blended silk and wool roving. The overlapping rays of wet wool. To match the edges of the resist. Flipping the project to side two. Adding more silk and wool roving to the surface. And wrapping the green 'rays' around to the orange side. Additional layers of variegated pink wool are added to each side. And felting is begun. After Gee's ...
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