… so this may be a rather rambling post. I’m coming to the end of a very relaxing week of vacation, and I’m feeling well-rested and content.
I’ve spent some time this week looking through books on jewellery making and getting excited about going back to the basics – I’ve gotten quite lazy with aspects of jewellery making – I don’t remember the last time I set a stone, and I have some gorgeous stones waiting to become part of a piece of jewellery. A few ideas have already been sketched out… Yay! We also took some photos of my jewellery on the beach and other locales. Once the pictures get edited (gack!) I’ll be posting them.
We spent some time at Qualicum Beach and visited a wonderful shop called Let’s Knit! I found some fabulous roving there – hand-dyed and a very different texture from what I already own.
Happy new roving
Although I had brought a healthy selection of roving to work with, I thought I should start with the local stuff. This is the beginning of an experiment…
An experiment
I’m working on silk chiffon and plan to wet felt it (Nuno felting), but rather than place loose bits of roving on the chiffon and wet felt it right away (hoping desperately for a non-windy day or the roving tends to fly), I needle felted it first, and have let the needles ruche the fabric. When I get home I will wet felt it and then start working into it properly. I look forward to seeing what it becomes, texture and image-wise! I consider this just the primer… many more layers to follow!
