Week 5 - Numbers 13 and 14

PROJECT:  Create 88 - 8" x 8" Canvases

PARAMETERS:  Fiber Art (including textiles, fabrics, gauze, cheesecloth, yarn, thread, embroidery floss, wool roving, and paper), mounted on 8" x 8" canvases.

GOAL:  Create hardcover book, showcasing this art.

This week I decided to give needle-felting another go.  I use wool roving for the needle-felting.  Did I have any wool roving, you might ask?

Wool Roving

Yes, a wee bit...  Probably enough for a couple of lifetimes.

#13 - I started this piece by attaching some cheesecloth, which I'd dyed with acrylic inks, to my background.

Cheesecloth

Next I added the pieces of wool roving.

#13 - Wool Roving

Followed by machine stitching to fasten the roving to the background, and to add detail.

#13 - 8" x 8" Canvas - Almost done

Actually, I thought the piece was done, but I wasn't totally happy that the stamens didn't show up well in the picture.  I used a black Uni Posca paint marker to outline the stamens.  Here's the finished piece:

#13 - 8" x 8" Canvas

#14 - Needle-felting the wool roving:

#14 - 8" x 8" Canvas - first go

Next I did free-motion stitching with my sewing machine.

#14 - 8" x 8" Canvas - not quite there...

I added some paints to tone down the middle section, and to straighten out the left edge of the opening.  Really, a subtle difference, but it made me happy.  Here's #14, finished:

#14 - 8" x 8" Canvas

Till next week...