Silk Story

Silk paper... between silk and flowers...

I called this 'In-formed' because it formed from the inside out and the knowing inside us informs us.

Felt Fun

I have been having such fun putting this felted piece together today, learning as I go about combining a variety of materials with my needle felting machine. I've begun hand stitching light and shadow on the leaves, now. And I also made some silk paper which is partially transparent when held up to the light.

And here is some wet felting and natural dyeing that may end up with these beads on it - or not.

Here's the whole of it:

I also natural dyed more silk shibori and over dyed other silk with eucalyptus leaves I picked last year -which only yielded slight colour.

Heart of Hearts

A heart of silk can be a glowing heart: I dreamed of hearts in this configuration earlier in the week and thought they might work felted in amongst wool:

But I decided I prefer the felt on it's own.

So I put the silk hearts back on their original base to see what wants to happen next.