Here are the pins that I made for Homecoming yesterday. They were made from the scraps leftover from the scarves and some cute buttons I found. We won the game (even though we nearly froze to death) so the pins must have brought good luck!

Here are some cards that I made. I had made the paper quite some time ago for a book which I didn’t use all these pages. So I cut them up and glued them to cards. Now I have some greeting cards when I need them.

Here’s a card made from dyed papers.

And another of the cards like the photo above with a bit of dyed paper behind it.

So this is the scene that I woke up to this morning. The high today was 31 degrees F.

Because it was so cold, this light layer of snow froze on the roads and made everything really slick. Luckily now it has almost melted off the roads. We are off to a Grizzly football game tomorrow and it’s is supposed to be similar weather. So I decided we needed a couple of scarves.

So here is the one I made for DH. It’s reversible with a thread sketched Griz paw.

Here’s the whole scarf. They are made from fleece.

And here’s my scarf. I’m sure everyone has already made one of these years ago but I never had. It’s super easy though. So hopefully, we won’t freeze tomorrow. I’m also making some flower pins out of leftover fleece. I found some great griz paw buttons. I’ll take photos when they’re done. I can always finish them on the two hour trip down to Missoula. Go Griz!

Zed from the Felting Forum showed us a site that had instructions for an easy to do felting technique. You lay out layers of fibers choosing ones with lots of texture. You should lay them out on something that won’t stick to your fibers. I used a nylon netting. This was OK on this green piece but did not work on the grey/black piece. I will use sheeting next time. You then stitch it all together. I just basted with a heavy thread.

Here’s the photo of the other one. I used heavy thread and then pulled tightly to get more texture.

Here’s the green one after coming out of the washing machine. The netting came off easily. I just threw both of these in the wash with some other things I was washing. It is very textured and was super easy to do.

Here’s the black/grey one. This is a bad photo but you can see that lots of the netting felted to this. I just ripped it off in shreds.

Here’s how I used the green one.

And here’s the black/grey one. The netting still stuck on just gives it more texture ;0)

Due to a late cancellation from another artist, I am the featured artist for Gallery Nights in October at my gallery, The Purple Pomegranate. I set up all my work today. Had a bit of a problem with the jelly fish light. It has an acrylic lamp shade under the wool and the acrylic was melting – aaaaaahhhhh…… So I had to re-do it a bit. The wool part was fine so I got new washers to go over the hole (now enlarged) in the acrylic part and got a 7 watt light bulb which changes colors. In the dark, it looks really cool but now it’s really just a night light.

Here’s another view.

The back wall.

And my thread sketched pieces. So opening night is tomorrow night – wish me luck!

Here are the shibori scarves that I finished today.

Lots of colors and I’m really tired.

Plus my hands are a weird color.

Here are a few closeups.

I’m glad these are finished!

I have wanted to do some shibori pole wrap dyeing for a while now but I just hadn’t gotten it done. I did two scarves today. I also did the base dying for 9 more scarves and 1 wrap. So I’ve got a bunch more wrapping to do. Here is one of the scarves wrapped on the pole.

Here is one of the completed scarves hanging on the front porch.

Here’s a closeup of the scarf above. It looks like flames.

Here are the rest of the scarves, waiting to be wrapped.

And these are some pages I painted with leftover dye. Not sure what I’ll do with them but perhaps I’ll use them in making some greeting cards.