As previously mentioned, I’m not really a ruffle type, but there are ruffles and ruffles. 🙂
When I attended a workshop with Maria Friese in France earlier this year, I got a bit obsessed with making flaps. I thought I would try a variation on this effect by sewing in resists at the prefelt stage and then cutting them out after fulling.
So I made a conventional rectangular scarf from four layers of fibre, then at the prefelt stage sewed in diagonally some plastic strips to act as a resist. In the centre, where the neck goes, I used a strip in the shape of a semi-circle. There was some gathering and bunching at this stage, but during fulling this disappeared.
After fulling I cut out the resists, fulled some more and removed the stitches.
They sit slightly differently, caused by sewing in the resists at slightly different angles.
I’m not sure whether to trim the edges to create a smoother line or to leave them as they are, so I’m going to show them at Lambeth Open this weekend and get some feedback. I’ll also be showing my nuno-felted wall hanging and some felt cutwork scarves, as well as the ever-popular indigo shibori scarves.
Love them Kim, especially the top one! Hope the open goes well for you, I’m sure that it will. X
Thanks Nicola! Hope your celebrations of Felt United day go well on Saturday too – will be thinking of you all!
These look amazing Kim – what a lot of work, but an interesting process. I look forward to seeing them in real life at the weekend!
And I’m looking forward to seeing your latest nuno work that you made with Inge Bauer!
The ruffle scarves are wonderful and I am so envious that you learnt the technique with Maria!
Thank you! 🙂
Gorgeous scarves. I love the texture of them and they are different than ruffles. Good luck at the open!
Thanks Ruth!
Nice work! I always love seeing your latest felt explorations and admiring all of the colors and textures at work. Have a great weekend!
Thanks Jessica – you too!