The goal of wet felting completely encapsulating the structural plastic canvas was not fully (no pun intended) successful. Hours and hours were added with felting needles and then the piece was wet felted again.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
With initial felting well under way, the towel is removed and the felting process continues with hot water and continued agitation via pressure from feet.
The sides/back of the shelf is fulled with hot soapy water. The goal is that the fleece will felt between the plastic canvas grid for structure. The towel serves to distribute pressure evenly to prevent bald spots in the felt.
Shelf divider is collapsed with screening between the fleece to prevent fulling into one solid mass. Entire component is basted together with embroidery thread. The fleece below this is the back and sides of the shelf before it is basted to screening in preparation for the fulling process.
Wool fleece preparation around plastic canvas to wet felt the shelf walls and compartments in January 2013.
Posts after this will illustrate the full, slow process of this work. These first two posts show the genesis (last post), and then 6 months later (this post) – image taken in June 2013. The idea is to work through the concept of two sides of the nine tenets of the Serenity Prayer.
Posts will be added to show the slow process of the major focus of work for 2013. Wet and needle felting – with the shelf formed around needlepoint plastic canvas. This piece was started in Dec 2012.
