Resist Felted bowls

I now have resist felting in my bag of tricks !!

My friend Rebecca (and owner of R. Rabbit's Fiber Studio) and I took a drive today down to Letts, IA to hobnob and fiber play with Abi Hutchinson of High Prairie Fibers.

While we were there, Abi graciously led us through the steps of resist felting. It's always fun to spend time in the old farm house with Abi and work with fiber.

This is the left overs

First she dumped a bag of mixed roving on the floor and we sorted out what we wanted to felt with. 

We've just taken the resists out

Working on cookie sheets we felted on the table

We cut up plastic feed bags for our resists (this is me !!)

I'm supposed to be looking like I'm working !

This one I started around a nerf ball. I've pulled the ball out and am using a jar to work on the shape of the felted bowl





















Here is what we came up with !!

Mine looks like a Bluebird's nest

 

These turned out pretty nice ! (mine is the blue inside and pink outside)

Abi worked on this beaded felted rope thing !

All in a days work