My first try at felting
It has been at least a month since I purchased the felting tool for my sewing machine, maybe even longer. Finally, I decided to just have a “me” day and not worry about what projects needed work. The one thing that I really wanted to do was start an Art/Sewing Journal. It was to be something that I could add to when the mood struck and when the time permitted. So, my first page in this journal was to be a felting project, as I had just seen something on the Quilting Arts show that I wanted to try. You can see the project at: http://www.quiltingdaily.com/media/p/29241.aspx
So I figured it all out and got the machine set up for felting using the tools I had purchased and made two trial pieces. Wow, it is cool! So then I made a bigger piece for the journal that is in my mind to start and well, I just could not let it sit somewhere inside a book. A different project that had been in my mind came to the surface and away we go. I had wanted to try making a cover for spiral bound items using a ruffle to cover the spiral. That part turned out Ok, but then there was the problem of this cover just not staying on since it has to be loose for opening and shutting the notebook. So then I added ties to the top and bottom front and back and tied the cover on through the holes in the cover. (I tried tying it to the spiral rings, but then it interfered with opening and closing the notebook.)
I still have some other ideas to try –on little books, I think I can just sew the cover on along the edge through the cardboard cover since they are so thin. But, make some other ways of keeping the cover on and making it removable can be thought up.
Here it is, my first felting project.
After felting the piece of wool, which is red in color, I added machine stitching and then some embroidery work. Because ribbons and pieces of fabric are added it is hard to machine quilt using free motion as the foot gets caught in those layers. Here is the back of the journal cover – you can see that I stitched with gold thread – the front is too but it does not show up very well.
