Happy Halloween!

Not that this post has much to do with Halloween other than I am writing it on October 31st!

wet felted bags swinging in the breeze

sheep inlay design made with prefelt from New England Felting Supply

Merino wool with some coopworth curly locks

I hope to create a tutorial to upload in the next week or so. Meanwhile I am excited to share that I have been accepted for membership in a local artists gallery!

 I have been making a lots of seamless felted bags!  Using a Scandanavian seamless technique and inspiration from a book Chad Alice Hagen wrote called something like Weekend Crafter I came up with a pattern for these resist technique bags.

Inlay designs.... with wet felting

Felt Bag or Purse

These are two of my felt bags. They are approximately 6x8 inches with long handles. Made from NZ Corridale wool. I used a black wool roving type yarn that I got a Michael's for  the inlay design. I loved playing with the yarn making the swirly inlay design.

   

 Heres another bag which I have not added handles or decided how I want to finish. This I played with some prefelts and yarns laying thin wisps of the main color sliver to "lock" them in place. Daffodils were in bloom!

There is a "before picture" of this inlay on my May 14th post

close up felt inlay pre-felt & wool yarn

Another bag playing around with felt inlays made from prefelt and also little snippets of wool yarn.

 My thanks to Chad Alice Hagen for the  directions... 

this is "The Perfect Little Bag" from her book

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