Ice

Felt with sheer snowflake fabric embedded with the embellisher, white scrim, beads and french knots stitched in silver metallic thread















Felt on orange gold metallic mesh. The sheer snowflake fabric was embedded in the felt with my embellisher. On top, I added text on some silk I'd previously dyed

The Effects of Climate Change

This is the felted piece finished - my latest piece raising awareness of global warming

















You may remember the piece of pink felt that I wet felted (see earlier post). I added satin, gold threads, sheer snowflake ribbon and silk tops to it and embellished it some more. Then I cut it up and re-arranged the squares on another piece of hand-made felt. I added more wool tops, orange and gold metallic mesh and the squares and felted the whole piece again (see last post)

The final stage - I added free motion machine embroidery, hand stitching, beads, text and some of my beads made from Tyvek

My general theme and the idea behind this piece is that as our planet is getting increasingly hotter globally, the polar ice caps are melting at a much faster rate than ever before, sea levels will rise alarmingly as a result and this will have knock on effects socially and ecologically

IMPORTANT
Please click on this link: The Effects of Climate Change
From the UK Government's official website:

My textile processes book - started at College

When I first began studying textile art at College I started a sketch book of very basic textile art processes and recording methods where I experimented with different materials, stitches, media and processes - a place to stick all the samples!


















This is the front cover of my sketch book. I layered different fabrics, including pieces of hand made felt, hand painted silk and heat distressed chiffon which I machine stitched to a calico base. I added experimental hand stitches and some beading to finish