concertina

Hello dear "felt-along" friends.

This is the first time I am participating in this play

I've enjoyed looking at the the results of previous felt-alongs 

and visited you at your blogs afterwards.

Felting is not my only "fiber" hobby,

I also like sewing, quilting, stitching and knitting.

Drawing and painting are always there in the background.

When I saw there would be another felt-along

I very much liked to try something new.

Ideas enough, but the last one and a half month of last year

gave us some unpleasant things to take care of

so the ideas still remained ideas, and only in my head.

Last weekend I finally got started again with some wool !

I wanted to make a container that consisted

of separate parts put together, and then felted as one object,

and this is what came out of it :

CONCERTINA

( das Akkordeon )

Let me tell you how I did it.

I made 5 templates for little bags and started with all kinds of red,

orange and pink, with white as a second layer.

Then .... it turned out, I didn't have enough white .... grrrrr

and added gray in the smaller bags.

When I turned them inside out during felting, I liked the bright

coloured sides better than my original idea to put the white on the outside !

Then I took some "ancient" white knitting yarn

(that I used for an "Irish Fisherman Sweater" in the  70's)

... and hoped that it would felt in ...

and stitched the bags together in the middle, up and down.

I left the ends hanging, because I liked the little "tails"

After felting, fulling and rinsing I was pleased with the result

and thought this one would do for a post on the Felt-along Galery.

There are still some linen stitches that held the upper sides between the "tails" 

together during the fulling, but I can remove those when all is completely dry.

There might be another entry one day

(still want to try something) 

but for now this is it ! 

I hope to see many more "Gefässe" soon and wish you all

lots of pleasure and succes making them !

Have fun, Els.

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( you can find me at http://fiberrainbow.blogspot.com/ )