Today we are recycling and re-purposing old clutches and journal covers into wall art.Sounds like fun.
The greatest part about using wool in a base for needle felting is as any holes that are present from snaps, stitches etc. easily close back up with a gentle scratch-n-tug to the fabric.
Today I have chosen three clutches and one journal cover to turn into wall art.
First, I had to take out all the side stitches. sounds easy , but as I got going I remembered I did multiple rounds of stitching with the machine, before adding in the hand stitching. I finally got the clutches undone, and the snaps removed. Yeah!
You can't even see where the holes were. that was the goal.
Removing the blanket stitching was done with just a snip and tug with each vertical stitch, the machine stitching I cut the stitches in a couple of places then pulled the layers apart. I wasn't worried about stretching out their base shape of the wool as this will all add to the wall art when I am done.
This one will be a little harder as I want to keep the decorative stitching around the edges. when I took it apart I left the bottom hand stitching and will re-stitch the side and top. Plus on the reverse side , though not shown is black wool with metallic orange thread free stitches in a vertical pattern, so keeping the layering is important to this piece.
This piece like the one above, is unique too. This one was made using recycled threads from furniture fabrics plus fun embellishment yarn fibers. Its like one large nest with five little wool blue birds hidden in its mass. On this one I don't want to keep the straight edges, so I will be following the edges of the fibers to dictate where I cut. making it a more abstract form.
As for the other two pieces, the black/green and the rectangle yellow I haven't yet decided what to do with them.
Stay tuned for the next blog as we begin getting the items together to make them into wall art.
If you have made fiber wall art I welcome your suggestions and comments for making frames and stitching them in place. I am thinking of using pieces of old grapevine as it has awesome texture and color.
Look for more pictures and notes as we recycle and re-purpose in part 2 of this entry.
-TNfrmgrl
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