I’ve been interested in the idea of making felt from wool roving. The plan was to needle felt the roving into a water soluble stabilizer, wash the stabilizer away while felting the roving and be left with wonderful hand made felt fabric. I was looking for a specific product – Easyfelt paper – but I was unable to track any down for my experiment. Instead I used Aqua Magic which worked quite well for the needle felting part but washed away quickly in water. So I hand felted carefully with hot water in a pie pan to get my small pieces. I intended for them to look like sunsets so I could use them in the small work like I’ve been doing lately. Time will tell how that works out, but for now, I think they came out fairly well.
Archive for May 21st, 2007
The changes aren’t so dramatic now that the basic structure is up, but the builders have been busy putting up the roof and window trim. This is a time consuming job that requires precision to do it well. This all has to be done before the roofing shingles go on or the siding is put up.
The electrician has spent several days running wires and putting up switch and outlet boxes. The alarm folks were here today to install wiring for smoke, CO, cold temp and security alarms.
The pictures show the front and side that we usually show, but we’ve also included one of the side facing into the woods this time. I’m looking forward to the wildlife we’ll see from those beautiful windows.
