This is the eighth Weekly Mixed Media piece this year. The front side is above and the back side below.
This is LAST week's result (not this week's). I started making it on Monday Feb 18th and finished it up on Tuesday Feb 19th, but didn't post it until today because I got the flu. Thank goodness I created it when I did because if I hadn't, there would have been no piece last week.
This piece started with a piece of orange wool felt/fabric. I placed a strip of fuchsia pre-felted wool on the front left of center, and laid a oddly shaped cut piece of leftover printed silk organza from one of my Skeletal Fence Series pieces, in the center, over part of the fuchsia and orange sections. I needle punched the organza in place, and flipped everything over, placed a strip of light purple pre-felted wool and needle punched that in place from the back side, around where I punched the organza. Flipping it back to the front side, I added additional strips of light purple pre-felted wool on both edges of the section I had already punched, leaving a section of the orange wool blank. I punched it from the top, and again a little from the back, with some purple onion bag netting over the same purple area. In order to keep the netting in place, I had to punch it from the back, so the wool fiber would hold on to the netting and keep it in place.
After I was finished needle punching everything, I cut the felt to my 6" x 6" size, and outlined some areas with orange thread and over the purple netting, using my sewing machine. I also used purple thread and "scribble stitched" back and forth on the orange area around the edges of the silk organza, to make that area a bit more obvious.
I did not wash the felt because I was concerned about how long it would take to dry and then finish up, and the fact that I wasn't feeling well. I wanted to make sure I got it done just in case I didn't feel well all week, which turned out to be the case.
You can see my 2008 weekly mixed media work (so far) on my website, and read about my process/progress here on my blog.
