Another felted bowl
This is another felted bowl using wool roving felted between layers of water soluble stabilizer. After felting the roving in an abstract design I then felted yarn around the edge. Next I rinsed out the stabilizer and formed the wet felting piece over the bottom of a glass container and let it dry over night. When it was dry I decided the bowl was not as stiff as I wanted so I tried painting clear gel medium on the outside bottom and half way up the sides. The gel medium did not dry as clear as I wanted so I painted Burnt Sienna acrylic paint over that. That gave the bowl a nice stiff bottom leaving the upper part more pliable. Also the painted bottom gave me somewhere to sign it like a pottery bowl would be signed. I'm working mostly on learning to sculpt the felted fiber. As I progress I will concentrate more on the design and color of the fibers. Hopefully all this experimenting will lead to better and better finished products in the future.
Fluted Bowl
This bowl was felted in a circle and then wedges were cut out of the circle and the sides of each wedge were felted back together to form the bowl. Then at equal intervals I pinched the seams and felted down about an inch or so to create the fluted edge.
I've been playing around with flat felting to make wall hangings and fiber paintings. Come back soon and check them out in my next post.
Posted by lpcolor at 4/10/2010 4:53 PM 
Categories: 3D felting with embelishing (felting machine)., machine felted bowl
Categories: 3D felting with embelishing (felting machine)., machine felted bowl
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