its a mad mission

Our final felting class was a free-for-all. One lady made a sculpture. Another a handbag, another pieces for a garland. I decided to attempt a ridiculous-to-try-to-complete-in-one-night project: a 22×22 square with dry needle felt orchid. To make the orchid, I basically poked the edges of the fiber into the base fiber, but left the fiber that makes up the inside of the petal loose. It felts into the project when I soap and wet it, but in a much airier, transparent way, as you can see in the closeup of the leaf. My new roommate Michelle, who is moving in next month, has bathroom decor with these colors, and I think this might look good with it. You will meet her next month on this blog, after I have a ginormous farewell-to-deb blog, since she is moving to Charleston and I am plagued with so many emotions about it. Yay! Boo! Hooray! Loser! Winner! Wahhhhhhhh!

The whole enchilada.

Ooo, the texture!

Translucent leaf.