Two birds with the same stone…

Fiona Duthie recently posted a challenge to the Surface Design Online Facebook group page, asking us to use trees as our inspiration and make a felt piece using one or more of the techniques from the SDO course.

I am very fortunate to have a wood just over the road from my home, I walk through it most days and the tree species are primarily silver birch, oak and pine. The rough texture of the oak bark particularly caught my attention and was my inspiration for this hat.

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Because I used up some prefelt I dyed last year, I think this hat also qualifies for the Felting and Fiber Forum 2nd Quarter challenge to do some stash-busting / recycling. This was the rather uninspiring piece of prefelt, I don’t think it takes too much imagination to see why it waited so long before finding a good use…

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Two challenges achieved with a single hat πŸ™‚

This is another hat I have been working on for Fiona’s challenge:

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And my other half broke an axe a couple of weeks ago, I am currently working on a bag that will use part of the broken handle for the bag handle – another entry for the FFF challenge πŸ™‚ More on that in a future post…

6 thoughts on “Two birds with the same stone…

    1. Teri Post author

      Thanks Lyn, I confess it was the colours of the madrone bark that drew me into making the second hat, green, orange and purple is always a striking combo! πŸ™‚

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  1. Ruth Lane

    Both are wonderful. I do think you’re really gotten the feel of bark on the first one with what I do have to agree is not the most beautiful piece of felt. And the second hat looks like Madrone bark to me. Sounds like those UFO’s are falling right and left. πŸ™‚

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    1. Teri Post author

      Thanks Ruth, I’m thinking of making a second more literal interpretation of the oak bark but I do like the semi abstract effect of the first hat, I don’t think many people will look at it and think “tree bark”. Well spotted on the second hat, it was indeed madrone bark! πŸ™‚

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  2. Teri Post author

    Thanks Marilyn, it feels really good to make beautiful things from pieces of felt that I had relegated to the “ugly” pile πŸ™‚

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