mała turkusowa, czyli torebka filcowana na mokro z kwiatem, albo bez - rękodzieło

wspomnienie lata ...

mała torebeczka w bardzo żywych kolorach dla urozmaicenia letniej garderoby.

Ufilcowana ręcznie i na mokro z wełny z merynosów australijskich w melanżu turkusowo - lazurowo -szafirowym z dodatkiem jedwabnych, lnianych i bambusowych włókien, które dodają ciekawej faktury.

z kwiatem albo bez

Ja noszę ją bez broszki, którą ewentualnie sobie przypinam, albo wiążę jako rodzaj naszyjnika na filcowym paseczku.

Torebeczka rzeczywiście mała - 20 cm szerokości - w sam raz na drobiazgi: klucze, komórkę, okulary słoneczne, małą portmonetkę ...

Wszyta w bigle - srebrne, rustykalne, grawerowane, z łańcuszkiem.

Wewnątrz jedwabna podszewka w kolorze lazuru - oczywiście z mojego recyklingu.

Ta akurat pochodzi z mojej bluzeczki, ale przyjaciółki znoszą mi kawałki jedwabiu z odzysku. Prędzej, czy później wykorzystam.

Dzięki dziewczyny!

A za mną ... za mną od jakiegoś czasu chodzą bursztyny ... gdzieś mi  się tworzy pomysł na połączenie tych dwóch naturalnych materiałów - wełna i jantar ...

Tymczasem zaplotłam sobie coś doraźnie na szyję. Dekonstrukcja tradycyjnych naszyjników, za którymi nie przepadałam nigdy. Moja Babcia nosiła bursztyny w celach zdrowotnych. Tak sobie pomyślałam, że może i mi dobrze zrobią. Więc czasem noszę. A co dalej, zobaczymy.

Manhattan girl - a wool painted bag with a city landscape

Manhattan,

There is a huge picture hanging on one of my walls for years, 

my other half and I - bold and beautiful - and the Manhattan skyline in the background - taken of the New Jersey side of the Hudson, 

a skyline so much different that the one on the bag - wouldn't dare to use it felting today.

It's a very important picture, an unforgetable experience, wonderful memories, 

a great place to travel with my next pictorial bag.

Another bag with the city landscape. Handmade, wet felted, dry felted.

It took a lot of work to lay out the picture. After the process of wet felting, I used the needle to finish the buildings and to dry felt the girl with the curly blonde hair. The merino wool, silk, bamboo and linen mostly in all shades of blue - from the colors of the sky to the deepest tones of the river. 

If you remember, I've already presented this exact picture in one of my posts. 

It took me a while to finish the bag. 

For a reason.

And here is the trouble maker - the metal frame, simple in it's form - seems innocent and easy to be used. But don't let it fool you. I made so many attempts to attache it to the bag, I almost gave up.

Good thing, I'm stubborn enough to finally find my own way with it because I really like the bag. Colors of merino wool match my casual wardrobe and the bag is great for my every day errands.

It is my personal bag, I wear it almost every day

but I kind of dedicate the idea of it to all my readers from the USA who actually make the second largest group of people following my blog, right after the Polish one.

poppies and forget-me-nots, wool coasters wet felted

I like natural surface of tables made of wood. 

I never - almost never - cover it with table cloth. 

Still some occasions call for some extra attention and in such cases nice coasters come to the rescue.

Why not wet felt wool coasters?

I made two sets of coasters. 

The poppies made of merino wool in a very rich red color with just a touch of silk include one bigger flower and four smaller pieces.

All flowers are felted of four layers of wool to make them thick enough,

 wet felted in a very long process to make sure they are strong and durable. 

Forget-me-nots

Four small flowers and two bigger ones make the sky blue set of coasters.

I set the table to have my morning coffee and it makes my day.

Or even better, I have my coffee with a friend ... 

pictorial felt - red poppies, sunflowers and a tree - wet felted wall pictures

I made some wall hangings before, 

here I present three craftworks I made this summer, 

all handmade, all wet felted, all wool painted. 

The family tree

 kind of symbolic, kind of personal.

I hope you like the contrast between vivid colors of leaves and earth-tones. I do.

Sunflowers

Very Polish, grow in almost every garden all over the country.

Red poppies

I could go on for hours about my special care and love for all wild and fragile flowers that you can't buy in a flower shop. 

There is not much more I could possibly add, either you like them or not ...

white cobweb lampshade with poppies - handmade, wet felted

Looking for new forms ...

I used cobweb to make a very unique lampshade.

It is my new experiment. Very promising. 

The cobweb breaks the light beautifully. Looks even better inside, with the lights on and mistirious reflexes all over the walls

Feltmakers usually use cobweb to felt scarves and shawls. 

But there is so much more to this consept. So many possibilities. 

White wool spread to a cobweb, wet felted carefully.

I love the result, now I'm looking for more recycled lamps and lampshades I could use for my experiments.

rosiepink and romantic - pillows handmade, pillows wet felted, pillows with flowers

All of you, reading my blog in English - from the USA, Germany, Ukraine, France, England and from all over the world - I owe you a few posts that I didn't have a chance to put on my blog before the summer. 

 I present my pillows, 

all with flowers but each made in different technique, 

each unique.

This rosiepink pillow,

 I nunofelted on a piece of raw cotton fabric. I used some prefelted wool in green for leaves and all different shades of pink merino wool to form roses. I layed white (even ecru) wool on cotton, then the flower pattern and finally wet felted - carefully but long - to make sure the result will be durable and strong for a long use as a pillow.

The back of the pillow is made of a double layer of cotton, with three beautiful, shiny and romantic buttons and little loops.

Each flower is different in color and shape.

I formed them by hand using merino wool and silk.

My next pillow with a tridimentional flower.

The 3D flower is wet felted of merino wool. As you can see on these photos, it has three layers, all made and shaped separately and then sewn together on the machine.

I attached the flower to the cotton pillow in the center with a black handfelted wool ball and a ribbon.

You can take it apart easily.

I used vivid cherry-red merino wool and some silk that makes the flower shine just a bit.

This romantic pillow was wet felted on cotton.

I used my handmade prefelt in pink and green for the pattern of flowers and leaves. I've decided for some machine stiches to make the leaves more interesting and visible. Each flower and each leave are a bit different.

The back of the pillow is made of the same raw cotton. 

I used loops and shiny buttons to close it beautifully.

I thought that there is something very romantic to this look.