Monday, February 14, 2011

Just step away from the needle..........

At our Saturday Weaving Guild meeting two fiber friends of mine presented a program on needlefelting postcards - the theme was to be a fuzzy valentine but I instead chose to bring ocean colors/charms for mine. Remember this is just postcard sized so it's small. We started out with a piece of commercial felt and then needlefelted on top of it. I brought a felted piece of handwoven in greens & purples I had in my stash to use as my background and then needlefelted some other colors on top of it. So, today I did all the embellishing of charms, beads, pearls, embroidery - I spent the better part of the day playing with it......as if I didn't have other things that I should have been doing.......but what the heck, this was fun! Finally I did have to move on to something else, I had to say to myself "just step away from the needle...." I had done enough, it didn't need any more embellishing. Now I need to decide how to display it, it's sitting on a piece of burlap that's auditioning for the role of background. I want to sew it to something, burlap, linen, felt, or something else, then stretch it over foam core and put it in a frame. I wish the seaglass, embroidery, beads and other details showed up better in a photo........

7 comments:

  1. Oh my gosh, Cindie -- your "postcard" turned out GORGEOUS!!!! I love all the little details you included, and can't wait to see it close up!!!

    Hugs,
    Boom

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  2. Wow, that certainly is embellished! Looks wonderful
    though and I'll bet it was tons of fun to do. If the pic is biggified, you get a lot more detail. I love the sea glass in it.

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  3. Thanks Theresa & Boom. Oh, and Boom was one of the presenters of the program on the needlefelted postcards Saturday. Boom, aka Cathy, along with Pat lead up down the needlefelting road.

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  4. I love your needle felted postcard. The handwoven background added so much. It's definitely a work of art! I might have to give this a try someday. It looks like fun!

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  5. Wow, that looks fantastic. I have got to try needle felting one day. Looks like a lot of creative fun.

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  6. This is so cute!!! I am amazed at what you can do with needle felting. Looks like so much fun.

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  7. Gotcha ya! Just wanted you to know I nominated you and your wonderful blog for a Stylish award! :)

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