Felting brings out my fanciful side while providing an excuse to experiment and play. I gravitate to whimsical pieces that make me smile and hopefully others too. A newfound appreciation of mushrooms has them popping up in all my work.
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Inspiration: As a child, a 3D picture of a fairy house had me endlessly making up stories. I hope this will help you make some too.
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool and silk fibres. The mushrooms are needle felted and have a 3D effect.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 4.5 inches x 4.5 inches
Inspiration: I think some fairies live in this little mushroom house. They come out at night to do all your mending and hemming while you sleep.
Techniques and materials: This needle felted pincushion sits in a vintage silver-plate cream pitcher. It’s decorated with acrylic flower beads and colourful pins.
Free standing: 5.5 inches x 7 inches
Inspiration: Who would prefer a purple mushroom house? Gnome or fairy? Whoever lives here dances around the swirly lawn when nobody is looking.
Techniques and materials: This needle felted pincushion sits in a vintage silver-plate sugar bowl. It’s decorated with acrylic flower beads and colourful pins.
Free standing: 6 inches x 6.5 inches
Inspiration: Time spent in the garden literally flies. This play on words has “time-flies” positioned around a clock with dragonflies at 10 minutes to 2.
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool fibres, with needle felting, embroidery, and stitching on the top layer.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 12.25 inches x 12.25 inches
Inspiration: The roots (mycelium) of a seemingly insignificant little brown mushroom facilitate the connection, communication and even sharing of nutrients, between trees in the forest.
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool, silk and banana silk fibres. The trees and mushrooms are needle felted.
Mounted on canvas.: 14 inches x 11 inches
Inspiration: This is just a bit of whimsy inspired by my mother’s tales of toads living in toadstools.
Techniques and materials: The wet felted background is wool and silk fibres. The toad and mushrooms are needle felted with a 3D effect.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 8.25 inches x 8.25 inches
Inspiration: I seem to have an overwhelming desire to go live in the forest where it’s quiet and peaceful. Who knows what creatures I’ll meet?
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool and silk fibres. The mushrooms are needle felted and have a 3D effect.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 5.5 inches x 5.5 inches
Inspiration: I wonder what’s cooking inside these little cottages in the forest and I wonder who lives inside.
Techniques and materials: The background is wet felted from wool and silk fibres. The mushrooms are needle felted and have a 3D effect.
Mounted in an embroidery hoop: 4.25 inches x 4.25 inches
