felt rocks
February 19th, 2008
I have been absent from this little blog for a bit. We’ve had guests and will have many more in the coming weeks, so you’ll only hear from me on and off for a while. If you actually know me, well, just call instead of stalking me on the internet, silly.
There hasn’t been much time for making, but I did manage to try my hand at wet felting. I bought a big bag of lovely colored roving at a garage sale this summer and have been meaning to try it ever since. I thought it would be nice to sell a little bag of felted rocks along side my diggers. Wet felting is ridiculously easy, but wet felting on details was not so easy. A good friend told me that white wool doesn’t felt as easily (because of the bleach?) which is probably why I was swearing up a storm trying to put the tiny stripes on the rocks. But I haven’t given up. I really like the rocks especially in bright colors and I think I’m going to try to embroider some rock like details on them. Maybe even some moss!
February 19th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Are they felted over real rocks or are they all felt through and through? Either way, they are lovely, especially the gray one.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I was wondering the same thing as abbyjane - are there real rocks beneath that wooly surface? Yes or no, they’re great. And thanks for the heads-up about the white wool.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
they are 100% felt, but I think a felted rock would make a very nice paperweight (I feel like I saw this somewhere…?).
February 19th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
i love them…and I think even though that white stripe was horrible, it is so lovely.
{& maybe instead of white something like a beige, something that is not bleached, but still gives that great ‘natural ‘ color variation}
February 20th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Oh my goodness, I looove those! And the diggers are awesome! What a great idea to make some rocks to go with them. I’ve been wanting to try playing with some wool roving, it looks like so much fun.
February 20th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Dare I say it? You’ve improved on nature!
Make sure you do some bags seperately for stoneafiles like me…Xxx
February 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I love them! They are the perfect addition to the digger.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:27 am
adorable! nice job.
February 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am
they rock! (oh, I am so funny!)
You can indeed felt a proper rock (well, smooth pebble) - you layer up thin layers of felted roving, smoothing as you go - and alternating the way the fibres lay each time (so horizontal one time, vertical the next). Does that make sense? Probably not :)
February 21st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Your stones look great.
“swearing up a storm” that made me smile, I have had similar frustrations in the past.
Wanted to thank you for organising the mobile swap, I was one day late posting but my piece is now winging it’s way over the ocean. I have found it really hard to make things since I got sick but I pledged to do one swap ever year to mark when I started blogging (20 Feb 2006) and your was right on the day, but also a fun swap and I feel like I have finally achieved something creatively. I even made a paper brooch to match the mobile.
I hope my efforts are ok. Actually, I could say I swore up a storm doing this too (made 5 mobiles but only one, the simplest, didn’t end up in the trash). But there were smiles too, when the rain stopped and I could take a few photo’s.
I’m also enjoying seeing your other blog posts, your a very creative woman!
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:47 am
the “stones” are great. i especially love the gray one too. i’m a big fan of stones and love to collect them… have baskets full of them around the house
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
i am wild about your felted rocks. i collect rocks. adore rocks. and your felted rocks. they are marvelous.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Those are so pretty!! And what a fun idea, to sell those with those cute diggers.
And those mobile ideas - amazing! Can’t wait to see what you do!
March 5th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
greetings from wisconsin! I’m a bit east of you - halfway to milwaukee.
the felt rocks are so pretty!!
found your blog from the Nesting blog of Cookie Magazine. Can’t wait to explore your blog!
PS: your home on the nesting blog is beautiful!
March 11th, 2008 at 12:53 am
I find myself thinking about the felted rocks a lot. We had some homemade play dough that was just the right color for stones. I made several and stacked them. Do you do that with yours? We live near some cliffs where people artistically stack stones to unnatural heights. It’s fun and temporary. Anyhoo…
July 9th, 2008 at 1:25 am
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