Brand New Toy!

We've been away for a few days of R&R, seeking cooler temps in two of our favorite cities: Greenville, SC and Asheville, NC.  How lucky we are to have such wonderful destinations within easy driving distance!  We love to poke around in the artists' shops and studios in the Asheville area, and to sample the locally grown foods.  One day we drove up along the Blue Ridge Parkway, enjoying the brilliant yellow coneflowers and mauvey Joe Pye Weed.  Our destination was the Penland School of Craft.  What fun!  The gallery is chock full of the works of both students and teachers - and they are all so inspiring!  I was very taken by the works of both Anna Lisa Hedstrom and Noel Lynn Pepos.  Both had used a lot of silk or wool roving in their lovely silk scarves.  I decided it was high time that I made the investment in an Embellisher - and the Atlanta Sewing Center was more than happy to help me out with this!

  
This is a portion of my first 'practice' piece.  As my first try, I chose a piece of silk organza as my base fabric and some soy silk roving, both of which I had dyed several years ago, and I'm very pleased with the outcome.  The portion on the right has the soy silk roving sandwiched between two pieces of the organza.  The bluer area on the left, has only a small piece of organza covering a bit of the soy silk fusion.

Above I've needle felted some soy silk fusion, also made a long while back, to my organza.  I'm amazed at how easily that felted!  I love the wispy-ness of it.


Here is the entire length of organza - felted to within an inch of its life!  I apologize for the glare on the left side of the photo.   

Be assured, I'll be doing lots more of this!

PEACE