Finally finished a lot of work!! And got the computer back!

This is a blue version of the white piece I posted earlier-much bigger and with more varied felting techniques used.It has mostly been naturally dyed and uses applied fabric in the felting process-some of the scarves are from my mother who died recently as a sort of memorial.I've also used fabric picked up on my travels so it makes a sort of journal for me.I can still add to it, but I'm trying to stick to the re cycling idea,using old samples and old fabric-upcycling really, as hope it ends up improving the lot of the fabric.

This felt vessel has been waiting to be finished for quite a while.It has layers of rust dyed fabric,woad dyed silk,digital print and surface print using thermofax screens and natural dyes.These are my favourite combinations.Inside is rust dyed fabric too, and below is a detail.Hand stiteched again,with paper string.
Happy New Year  ,anyone who is listening.

More current work

I'm busy working on a collected cloth made up of individual Nuno felt samples, which is growing rather more slowly than my blue one.This is white and cream but the chair I draped it on is black, hence it isn't as pure white in this picture.I am going to print on some areas ,but it has been so cold and wet today, I haven't even been inclined to walk down the garden to my studio.I really need to be able to look at it unexpectedly, to decide what happens next.It's nice to make something which grows almost without me thinking-sort of like a meditation, but there finally comes a time when thought has to come into it!