Theme Thursday - Felt

I was very excited and happy to see that the theme for Theme Thursday this week was FELT. Since Christmas, I have been experimenting with nuno felt which is a Japanese technique of laying down wool with silk and helping the wool fibres migrate through the silk so that the two bond and become one.

I think I will play with this piece a little more, maybe add a few beads to add to the feeling of luxury, and then send it to made4aid to help towards the relief funds in Haiti.

Happy Theme Thursday guys and thank you so much for choosing FELT x

One world, one heart - Give Away has now ended

A wonderful blogging friend invited me to join in with the magic carpet ride, and to open my heart to new friends and faces.

I have encountered so many magical, beautiful souls in this blogging community, I'm happy to meet more!



And as a gesture of love to friends old or new I offer a felt and silk necklace that is so soft and luxurious. Feels just like a hug.

All you need to enter this give away is to leave a comment which links to you blog or email address.

The draw will be made on 15th February.

Until then, make yourself comfortable and have a good look around.

I look forward meeting you and returning the visit...

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Wow, I am amazed and very happy to have had so many responses to this give away. Out of appreciation for all of your time, and those new friends that have chosen to follow Natures Whispers I have decided to extend the give away to two necklaces. Winners get to choose the colours.

Thank you all xx

Seedlings

Felt Hat

The Way Through The Woods

(Markable Witches - Rewards & Fairies)

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago,
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night air cools on the trout ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horses feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods...
But there is no road through the woods.

Rudyard Kipling

Green Alice

Nuno felted Stick Alice in Wonderland

Needle felted detail

Alice through the bubble wrap

I made this nuno felt to join in with the fun over at Artspark Theatre. The prompt is green, which is an indicator of renewal. Well 2010 is certainly the year of Alice in Wonderland.

I did not create the design. The design for my latest nuno felt belongs to Jamison Odone who will be releasing his 'retold, and illustrated book of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' on March 5th 2010 to coincide with the release of Tim Burton's Alice Wonderland film starring Johnny Depp.

I think that Odone's illustrations are fantastically clever. The cat reminds me Studio Ghibli's Totoro.

You can visit Jamison Odone's Wordpress blog by clicking on his name or on the book cover picture.

Floating in a Moonlit Sky

Wool laid out

Silk gauze laid on top

Nuno felted

I recently signed up to be a contributor for 'Ideas of Inspiration'. Above you can see my first submission for the prompt 'Winter White'. A nuno felted scene from 'The Snowman'.

I made this yesterday for my daughter who is very poorly right now. I decided to make the child a little girl so that Naomi can imagine that she is flying with the snowman.

We bought the film for my daughter before Christmas. When I was a little girl this film was a really big deal and Aledd Jones was considered to have the most angelic voice. Watching the film with my daughter was the first time that I had heard the Mel Smith narration version which tells how naughty the little boy is, running away with an unknown snowman in the middle of the night, and stealing his fathers motorcycle too! It's quite amusing hearing the story in gravelly East End tones. Even funnier is the David Bowie intro. What was he thinking of in 1982? That hair!

This is my 3rd attempt at nuno felting. I made the wool layering as fine as possible. Some of the facial detail has been lost with the shrinkage, but I quite like the end results.