Silk Chiffon

Yesterday I purchased 2 metres of silk chiffon at Fiber Lilly. My plan (when I get time) is to dye the chiffon to use in surface embellishment. You can find out how to dye chiffon HERE.

I also found a couple of YouTube videos using chiffon.

• Crinkle Silk Chiffon (inspiration for surface embellishment)
• Painting Silk Chiffon

Other sites of interest:

• How to Make a Felted Chiffon Scarf
• How to Sew Chiffon Fabric
• Nuno Scarf Tutorial
• Painting and Felting

Enjoy!

Felting Workshop

The felting workshop with Caroline Lindsay was quite enjoyable and relaxing. Did I say relaxing? The wet felting method was quite the upper body workout. After laying out the wool roving and covering it with silk chiffon, we then rolled it up in bubble wrap. We had to constantly work the felt inside the bubble wrap with our hands. Of course, the felt had to be unrolled and rolled up over and over again. Check out this video clip from Google as it will show you basically what we did. That was the first day.

We took our felted pieces home that night to wash for 30 minutes in the washer and then dry it. I chose to air dry mine as I didn't want it to shrink further.

The second day we started to embellish our piece. Everyone got lots of individual attention and suggestions as to how to finish it. Needless to say, I have yet another workshop piece to finish. However, I will get it done as I quite like this piece.

Thursday, I'm going to make some bowls and vases with Caroline.

Notice how the yellow and hot pink coloured silk overlays changed the colour of the wool roving. The same coloured roving was used for both samples.

Felting

I spent yesterday at a felting workshop with teacher, Caroline Lindsay from the UK. We used a combination of wet felting and nuno techniques to create rich fabrics ideal for hand or machine embroidery. Today, we will be embellishing our pieces with stitching. Here's a sample of her work: