With Open Studios coming up, I wanted to create something new for the studio, as well as to find a better way of displaying flower corsages. So I created a wallhanging to pin the flowers to, which doubles up as something bright and decorative for the studio. Thought I'd share some before and after photos, so you can see the process. Photo 1 shows the felt fleece all laid out in landscape colours, I then added some bubble mohair wool strands to act as flower stems. Photo 2 shows the developing felt during the process - flattened with hot soapy water and rubbed to help the fibres felt together. Photo 3 shows the finished felt (shrunk by about 30%) - I didn't worry too much about keeping neat edges as I knew I was going to cut the felt. All in all this took about a day to make (half a day to make the felt and another to create the hanging). And we both appear on this week's front cover of our local newspaper to advertise Open Studios - link here:Oxted County Border News, 24 May 2012
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