Uploads from lilfishstudios, tagged wool

landscape brooches completed

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:13:14 -0700

My new batch of small needle-felted landscape brooches. Each scene is 1 1/4" wide and set into a base of wood I make by hand.

I seek to make scenes that feel peaceful and quiet. Inspired by places I've been and places I'd like to go.

fern

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:08:21 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

Small stones, felted and stitched, for my Art-o-mat edition.

stitched!

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:08:20 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

50 small stones, felted and stitched an on their way to an Art-o-Mat near you.

tiny mosses

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:14:13 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A new necklace I've made. A wearable felted stone, stitched with wee mosses and a delightful little microbe. (delightful!)

ready to go

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:14:13 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A bowl of fiber goodies getting ready for their shop debut.

stepping stones

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:06:54 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A wall piece I've just completed. Each wool pebble is made from fiber I've dyed using materials gathered from the woods (and sometimes my kitchen). They're set into a piece of poplar from my backyard that I planed and aged to a soft grey.

then there were two

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 05:34:02 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A new stone added to my felted stone project. I'm taking stones sent to me from nature-lovers around the world, felting them, and stitching them. I'm hoping to have at least 100 stones when I'm done, and to display them all together.

If you know someone who might like to send me a stone, you can read more here- lilfishstudios.blogspot.com/2012/11/will-you-join-me-in-p...

pond scum bracelet

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:50:40 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A wool bracelet that I made, adorned with oodles of french knots. Inspired by the odd and lumpy bits found in nature.

twin toadstools

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:32:01 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A teeny needle felted mushroom scene I fit onto a base made of Alder wood.

baby bolete

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:32:02 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A teeny needle felted mushroom scene that I set onto a base I made of Alder wood. It stands less than 4" tall.

wee sheepie

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 05:57:08 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A little sheep all made of wool. My first one. Needle-felted using local Rambouillet and covered with teeny tiny Targhee locks.

naturally dyed needle felting

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:28:28 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A new mushroom scene I've made by needle-felting wool. This piece is my first that uses naturally dyed materials exclusively.

The grey "stones" are undyed natural wool. The other colors in the piece come from red onion, black walnut, bedstraw, pomegranate skins, strawberry leaf, and creeping charlie.

toadstool terrariums

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:28:19 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

Two new pieces I've just completed. Wool mushroom scenes made by needle-felting, which means they were constructed by forcing wool fibers together into felt. The piece on the right is made with all naturally-dyed fibers.

The wood bases are made from branches that I've dried so the bark stays in tact.

hillside brooch

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:38:28 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A new brooch I've made by needle-felting wool into a scene. The brooch base is made from a piece of oak from my woods that I've cut and sanded.

The scene is 1 1/4" across.

Rolling hills, purple flowers.

detail

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:38:39 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

An extreme close up of my new brooch. The actual scene measures 1 1/4" across and is made of needle-felted wool.

step this way

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:06:55 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A close-up from my new piece 'Stepping Stones'. All naturally-dyed wool and thread set into poplar.

stone completed - dlw in west virginia

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:26:49 -0800

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A new stone, the earthy brown one, that I've just completed. The stone inside it was sent to me from David in West Virginia. (via his grandma) I've felted it and added stitches that invoke feelings of earth and growth.

Part of a project I'm working on that I'm informally calling a gathering of stones. Readers of my blog are sending me stones and I'm felting and stitching them, and hope to have the completed "gathering" displayed somewhere en masse.

details, details

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:32:04 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A tiny puffball, little blooms, diminutive pebbles, and my favorite... sporophytes add a bit of realism to my latest piece.

blue skies landscape

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:28:02 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A needle-felted landscape measuring about 1.25" across that I just finished. I've set it into a brooch base I made from an oak branch.

violet corts

nobody@flickr.com (lilfishstudios) — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:54:24 -0700

lilfishstudios posted a photo:

A tiny wool scene of two violet corts I made this weekend. Needle-felted wool set into a base I made from a poplar branch.