its all about color: Needle felting

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Monday, February 7, 2011

if it's not one thing, it's another....

I now know why it was so hard for me to keep a blog in the past. I simply can't be one of those wonderful artists who can write about their creative process every single day. "Life" always seems to creep in there for me. It's not that I don't get anything done, either. I do, but because I have so many projects going simultaneously, and because I work on them in 10 minute increments in between other things, it seems as though everything in my world just takes a very long time.

I did get a few things done over the last few days: Here's a needle felted sewing kit (the applique is RIT-dyed batting).

I finished this image of the madonna and child. It was fun to do -- I printed a photo I took of a medieval painting (from the Loreto Museum in Prague) onto a piece of interfacing, and used the printed image to guide the sewing machine needle as I free-style machine embroidered it.

Finally, I have been trying to finish the quilt I am hand quilting. This has been a long project... some three years so far, and I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Here's the second-to-last block:

I have to say, I do love my own creative process, even if it does take a long time.... Or maybe it's because it takes a long time?

Sunday, January 30, 2011

This time it's red.

Here's what I'm working on now: I needle felted different red colored roving, along with some RIT-dyed batting to a base of craft felt. Then I added some orange roving and red/purple sari ribbons as accents. I am thinking about doing a similar piece in many different colors and incorporating them all together into a larger "quilt" later on. Or maybe not. It's just so much fun to play with the colors. Sometimes I think I try too hard to make my work "mean" something, when it should really be about being in the moment and enjoying the process.

red needle felted piece (no stitching yet)

Here's a second version. I've been adding stitching to this one, but I'm not entirely satisfied because there is very little contrast -- so the stitches fade into the background.