Little Circles and Tiny Dots

A fallish late afternoon sky punctuated by my little orange gourd....
with a great stem by the way.

I made this little felted piece over the past couple of days inspired by an artist I admire....and I'm pretty tickled with the result.

I've had a couple of pins on my Pinterest boards for years that I keep repinning to the top of my felting Board....and I kept going back to this purple piece again and again. I finally gave the idea a try.

The inspiration piece was done by Sally Roydhouse and the pin links to her Fabric Mountain on Folksy account...but this image doesn't seem to be there there anymore. 

I dug a little deeper today to try and find out more about her. The folksy site linked to her Instagram page...but I couldn't scroll back far enough to find any of these felting pieces. Folksy also linked to her Pinterest account...and she has a board for her Harris-tweed jewelry:  https://www.pinterest.com/fabricmountain/harris-tweed-jewellery/....and there it was.

For my version I machine stitched two pieces of wool onto a piece of stabilizer. The yellow had a very organic raw edge...which I liked at the beginning more than I did at the end. In the end I stitched over it.

I machine stitched on the wool vase....and started felting little circles and tiny dots. I use bits of wool roving and a felting needle that has little barbs on the end that tease/work/felt the wool onto itself and into the substrate. 

I worked on a small but thick piece of foam. It takes just a tiny bit of wool to felt a little circle...and even tiner bit to felt a dot. I have plenty of roving to share...more on that another time.

I trimed it up and satin stitched around the edges. I made two passes to get better coverage. The zig zag along the horizon line was an afterthought...which is why the lines don't quite match up. 

I enjoyed getting back to some felting...with these little circles and tiny dots. I'm look forward to playing a little more.