Felted woman quilt

I made this for a group of crafters that my daughter and I belong to called “ In Good company”.

Each month we are given a challenge to make something from a kit that we get.

For the month of April we was given 4 colors of wool felt to use, a piece of wool fabric and felt needles along with a few other items.

I told my daughter that we should make something really different. After thinking about it for a few days I came up with making a man and woman wall quilt.
My daughter choose the man and that left me with the woman to make.

I decided to use a vintage picture of a beautiful young girl and use the wool felt to make her hair.
I used wool fabric to make the hat with.

You can see my daughters wall quilt at her blog site. http://kianafecteau.blogspot.com/

These are original designs.

Small wool pillow

I love to make small pillows and since I have never sewn with wool I decided to make a small pillow.
I wanted to see how easy wool is to sew.
I think the wool fabrics sew as good as cotton fabrics.
I will make a larger pillow and a few more smaller pillows.
I love this green color. Green and burgundy colors go together beautiful.
These are hand-dyed wool fabrics.
I bought fabrics from a shop that does their own dying of different fabrics.

Wool yarn and felting

This week I bought from two different shops beautiful wool and wool felting.
Both the fabric and felting had been hand dyed.
There was so many different colors that I had a hard time choosing which one’s I wanted to buy.
I finally decided on a few basic colors to start with.
One shop had every kind of wool from animals that I did not even know wool was used from them.
Some of the wool was so soft that I just wanted to dive into the basket and lie on it.
I used to knit and almost got tempted to start knitting again.
The new fabrics that are out for knitting are a lot different than the old dime store yarns that I used to use.
I keep telling myself I don‘t have time to start a new craft.

Now I just need to decide what I want to make with all this beautiful wool.