Dogwood Pins

Making some dogwood flower pins for little gifts.  Dogwood is the state flower 

and state tree of Virginia!

Cattails

Here is an old work, just when I was starting, felted cattails: 

Mostly, I am showing this to give an idea of how I "free-hand" lettering.  I first go on my computer and pick out a font I like and print off the words I want to felt.  Then, I loosely form the letters in wool, and lighty lock them in, so I can pull them off if I make an error.  Here is the progression (this is the Latin name for cattails):

 The pins mark a straight line:

 

I find it hard to draw with a fabric marking pen on nubby wool, so I "draw" with

loose wool instead!

New Work

I have been interested in trees lately, especially as I have lots of brown/gray, hand spun, "thick and thin"

wool yarn from a friend.  I also had a piece of prefelt, dyed with eucalyptus during a

dyeing lesson (yes, it dyed this lovely rust color).   So, I created this "tree," more like a wisteria trained to a standard ("training to a standard" means to created a tree-like form, as can be done with roses).  Pretty thing, deserves a nice frame!

Keep needling!