The Tender Thaw

Before outlines were applied

This design is intended for felt. I've had a lot of fun playing with colour and making stained glass style designs. It strikes me that the simpler nature of outlining work for stained glass would make it easier to convert the image into textile format. I'm not sure if it would be wisest to Batik the silk before nuno felting or to arrange the wool and prefelts into the design using coloured wool and then nuno felt.

Any thoughts on this one, my felting friends?

A Cast, A Kettle, A Convocation...

An new tiffany style collage. Another design for felt...

Happy New Year!

Today I made a collage incorporating many positive words and sentiments to begin the new year with. I then painted over in acrylic paints to create a tiffany style design which I will use for felt making in the future.

Odin

Wounded I hung on a wind-swept gallows

For nine long nights,

Pierced by a spear, pledged to Odhinn,

Offered, myself to myself

The wisest know not from whence spring

The roots of that ancient rood

They gave me no bread,

They gave me no mead,

I looked down;

with a loud cry

I took up the runes;

from that tree I fell.

Odin's Gift to the World

(Excerpt of W H Auden & P B Taylor's Translation of The Havamal)