Here are the new links to my two new blogs. Thank you to all of you that have subscribed to me in the past. I hope you will follow these links to my new blogs (LP's Fancy Fiber and Lynda Pike-Artist) by typing in your email and clicking submit on each of the blog sites at the top of the pages. Now you will continue to receive my blogs as you have in the past. You will also find a link on both pages to my Etsy Store which I am just getting started. Thanks again, and enjoy the new blogs.

www.LPFancyFiber.blogspot.com   and   www.Lyndapikeartist.blogspot.com

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Wet Felting Projects
Well the weather is finally cooled off and my studio is comfortable to work in so I'm happy and back to work. The last couple of days I've been working on fiber art and wet felting. The projects above are top left a cobweb wool felted scarf in yummy color with alpaca yarn squiggles. Next to that on the right is a 12" x6.5 wool felted vessel. On the lower left is an abstract wall piece and on the lower right a fall landscape wet felted with free motion stitching. This piece is much more sculptural and textural than you can see in the photo.

I'm trying to decide whether to add some hand felting embellishments to the vessel or some beading or something to give it more interest. Stay tuned for more projects. Got to get back to work.







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Wet Felting Projects
Well the weather is finally cooled off and my studio is comfortable to work in so I'm happy and back to work. The last couple of days I've been working on fiber art and wet felting. The projects above are top left a cobweb wool felted scarf in yummy color with alpaca yarn squiggles. Next to that on the right is a 12" x6.5 wool felted vessel. On the lower left is an abstract wall piece and on the lower right a fall landscape wet felted with free motion stitching. This piece is much more sculptural and textural than you can see in the photo.

I'm trying to decide whether to add some hand felting embellishments to the vessel or some beading or something to give it more interest. Stay tuned for more projects. Got to get back to work.




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Wet Felting Projects
Well the weather is finally cooled off and my studio is comfortable to work in so I'm happy and back to work. The last couple of days I've been working on fiber art and wet felting. The projects above are top left a cobweb wool felted scarf in yummy color with alpaca yarn squiggles. Next to that on the right is a 12" x6.5 wool felted vessel. On the lower left is an abstract wall piece and on the lower right a fall landscape wet felted with free motion stitching. This piece is much more sculptural and textural than you can see in the photo.

I'm trying to decide whether to add some hand felting embellishments to the vessel or some beading or something to give it more interest. Stay tuned for more projects. Got to get back to work.




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Wet Felting Projects
Well the weather is finally cooled off and my studio is comfortable to work in so I'm happy and back to work. The last couple of days I've been working on fiber art and wet felting. The projects above are top left a cobweb wool felted scarf in yummy color with alpaca yarn squiggles. Next to that on the right is a 12" x6.5 wool felted vessel. On the lower left is an abstract wall piece and on the lower right a fall landscape wet felted with free motion stitching. This piece is much more sculptural and textural than you can see in the photo.

I'm trying to decide whether to add some hand felting embellishments to the vessel or some beading or something to give it more interest. Stay tuned for more projects. Got to get back to work.







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"A Pair of Pears" Art Quilt


I picked up this piece that was started about 2 years ago laying in bed recovering from surgery. I had a scrap of white muslin and my Ink Tense Pencils. I used the pencils then wet them with a small brush to blend. Still laying in bed I hand stitched the drawing to a piece of craft felt and then did some hand embroidery stitching. That was that... Didn't do any thing else to it for 2 years. I picked it up the other day and wondered what could I do to improve on it. I couldn't hurt it. First I felted some wool roving over the pairs letting some of the original colors show through. Then I added more roving to parts of the background. It still needed something to punch up the color so I felted black yarn around all the shapes. That helped. From doing the felting some of the areas flattened out and other puffed up, including the pears. So I decided to sandwich the piece with the white felt and did the grid stitching in the blue area. I added extra batting behind the big pear to give it dimension. Then I quilted all the shapes on each side of the black yarn. It became very textural and dimensional. I felted on the multi colored border yarn. Then I trimmed the white batting with pinking shears. Still didn't look finished. Added another layer of black felt to make it pop and look more important. Then added a border of decorative stitching and finished the edge with rat tail cording?








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This is a very small art quilt with lots of texture and technique. It started out as just a practice gel mono print with acrylic paint. Then I backed it with thin batting and did some felting around the leaves and the white yarn was felted around the petals of the flower. Some of the dots were felted from the backside. After the felting was done I thought the flower needed to pop out more so I went back to the painting studio and painted the background green to complement the flower and increase the value contrast. Next I put a backing fabric on and began quilting the leaves, then the flower petals and finally the background. To finish off the edges I attached a rat tail cord with a zigzag stitch.


Initial gel mono print with additional brush painting and inking.




After additional painting, felting and quilting.








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More gel printing.






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More gel printing.






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