Sterling silver, wool
Needle-felted, flame-worked, cold connected
L 5.2 cm x W 4 cm
Back in 2006, when I was working with the Bonsai Rings one of the challenges I faced was to create realistic looking foliage. A technique I thought might work well was felting. I signed up for a felting course, but unfortunately various circumstances prevented me from taking it.
So recently, when I was putting together a Treasury on Etsy.com, I came across a shop that sold needle felting kits. The price was good, so I took the plunge and bought one.
I decided to experiment first with the least appealing colour for foliage: pink.
The technique is quite simple and fun. On the first night, I made two little balls. The next night I had a meeting with Maegen Black, a colleague who works with me on MAGazine. She was wearing three felted bangles made by a BC artist whose name I didn’t catch. (Edit: Maegen let me know the artist’s name is Deb Dumka). Intrigued, I tried a version of my own the next night.
Since I’m now working on my YOJ projects, I decided to use this little circle for my week 1 submission. To jazz it up, I broke out the torch and made a bunch of sterling silver studs to decorate the circle. Remembering the mess I got myself into during the previous YOJ, I did all of the finishing prior to assembling the pendant.
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