Wednesday, 20 June 2012

WOYWW - felting or dumfing

Good morning all!!
Before you is a nice neat room and tidy table - I just had to clear out some of my untidy mess after my weekend of crafty activity (See gorgeousness on post below!)
On my table this morning are three pieces of handmade felt. I spent yesterday morning wet felting these.



This one is for Annie. She finds wet felting difficult because it hurts her wrists and shoulders so, I offered to make a piece for her to use as a dumfing background.

This is what it looked like when all the wool rovings were laid out ready to wet felt.







And below is my experiment.
I fancied making a flower garden so I wet felted a background piece and then I will work on it with my embellisher (dumfer) and see what happens.


The little pictures below were needle felted onto a piece of wet felted background  and then machine embroidered and beaded.

I think we will pop them in the shop once they are finished off.
I have started the "mini felted picture" shelf already.
I put a few of my little dumflings in there so click here to have a look, if you are interested.

And lastly....
the latest little ATCs to arrive through my letterbox.


They are all so beautiful and will just about fit on my A3 collage board, so I will be finishing that off later. Thanks lots everyone - it's been a fun going global!

Now to see what Julia has been up to in her Stamping Ground this week.
Have a great day.
See you later
x Jo

58 comments:

  1. I love your mini felted pictures... they are so beautiful. Hugs Sylvie

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  2. What a great WOYWW page, so colourful and interesting. I'm popping back later to study this dumfing technique you so beautifully execute.
    Lynn x

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  3. Can't wait to get dumfing on that fab new background Jo. You are a treasure for doing that for me.
    Hugs,
    A x

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  4. beautiful felted pieces. Love all those ATC's! Have a great week. Vickie #23

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  5. Adore your dumfing - sigh BJ#47

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  6. These mini felted pictures are wonderful! I'm working with some fabric now and it's great. Love all the colours you've used and you did a great free motion machine work. Well done!. Bye, Franka

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  7. Lizzie did a gorgeous wet felt poppy scene, with gorgeoous dry felting added, I keep tellign her to vist you, and to blog... must get a pressure group going,

    cannot wait to see the a3 atc collective collage

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  8. Wet felting now! Is there no end to your talent! I love the picture above the little dumfed ones, it looks all Monet'ish and dreamy and lovely and ...
    Great dumfing pictures - must go an look what else you have been doing.
    Thanks so much for sharing all these goodies.
    Hugs, Neet #21 xx

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  9. Wow! lovely felting! so pretty. And some lovely ATC's there too x April#100

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  10. I do love visiting your blog. First the beautiful rainbow welcomes me and then there's always something to be amazed and inspired by. Thank you.

    cheers, rachel #19

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  11. Thanks so much for your birthday greeting... It's been a good'un! Love your felty dumfings, they are exquisite. Lovely to be back for a while!
    JoZarty x

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  12. love you dumflings they are all so pretty. Have a great week. sandy :)

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  13. You are amazing I cannot believe what you can create with some fibres and needle and thread. Looking forward to seeing your A3 collage board.
    Sandra @32

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  14. Those felted pictures are GORGEOUS!! love them lots! Trish #71

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  15. Oh my, your felting is wonderful, and made all the more magical by the fact that I have no clue how you do that! Amazing!

    Happy WOYWW

    Zoe #57

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  16. I just never know what techniques I'll see on Wednesdays..this is awesome! #118

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  17. Beautiful dumfings. Lovely ATC's.
    Famfa 117

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  18. I was just about to say you need to start doing dumfing workshops... then I saw the title of the post below!
    Laura 94

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  19. Gosh, I have never heard of "dumfing", but it seems to produce some excellent results, however you do it...
    Gorgeous poppies - especially the big picture, but also those lovely little mini-pics too.
    I love the flower garden, so far. Will you be embellishing it with embroidery next? If it's as fab as the poppies, that will be great!

    Glad I decided to visit (I thought I would go and see all the posts ending with a #4 today!)
    LizzieMade (108)

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  20. Hi Jo, I'm just loving your felting . The more I see the more I love it. Hugs Rita 46 xx

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  21. They are just gorgeous Jo :o) You are a very talented pair of sisters.
    Fiona xx

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  22. Hi Jo If you pardon my phrase but 'Stunning dumflings you have there love! The computer he want to say dumplings! I love seeing the peeks at what you do to get to the finished article.

    Hugs from Helen 107

    Please pop to see Angenita (89) as she could do with a WOYWW hug today (pass it on)

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  23. Gorgeous ATCs. I love the felting (have never tried this.) Thanks for sharing your workspace with us. Hope you have a good week. Hazel WOYWW #87 x

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  24. Your new dumfing are absolutely beautiful JO, the colours are so vivid. You know, they would look stunning just mounted onto an A5 card, I bet you would sell loads of them, especially new Clintons has gone out of business.

    Happy Crafting!
    Sue
    x
    #82

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  25. Your creativity is endless ! such beautiful work again. Also loving your latest batch of atcs,
    Happy woyww, Helen, 33

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  26. Gorgeous. I would love to try felting!

    #101

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  27. Gorgeous. I would love to try felting!

    #101

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  28. Fabulous, what an amazing technique
    Sophie no.93

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  29. Such wonderful needle felting!

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  30. That's it. You all are making me get out my dumfing stuff.

    (I'm "easily amused," AND easily influenced, apparently!)

    Didn't have much I could show this week, so went with
    the WOYWW--Daughter Edition!

    :)trisha
    #143

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  31. Love the idea of felting but I have absolutely no idea of how to go about it. Yours are beautiful as is the background you've done for Annie!
    Hugs, LLJ #72 xx

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  32. ...loVing the Dumfing Jo, it looks amazing and so pretty...fabby ATC's you've recieved too, just wonderful, thanks for sharing and dropping by me...Mel :)

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  33. Wow ...have you thought of doing something on u tube ....I know I would love to watch you create.xx#9

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  34. I love your needle felted flowers!
    They are so pretty!! :)
    Mary Jo #123

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  35. Just beautiful Jo - I'm still in awe of dumpfing. Such pretty results. Belated Happy WOYWW. Di xx

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  36. While I doubt I have the skill for this, I really appreciated all the info in this, and the last couple, of posts! You work is simply stunning and seeing the process is fascinating.

    Happy WOYWW

    Mary Anne

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  37. I'm now going to have to go away and find out what "wet felting" involves. I'm assuming, water. But, that could be completely off track!

    Glad to see my ATC got there ok!

    Thanks for stopping by...

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  38. Stunning as always. I still haven't even popped by to say a big Thank you for my ATC, I love it, it even came away with me last weekend. I'm still swamped by my chaotic life, so blogging is taking a back seat.

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  39. So sorry I am so late!! That felting is amazing!! You do such beautiful work!!
    xxDaniella#167

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  40. Love that wet felt technique, the fibres all laid out ready look really soft and pretty. Go ahead and dumpf this sunset picture, I'd love to see it, you can put it in your shop and sell it. Let me know if you'd like the original to work from!

    Hugs
    Brenda 2

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  41. Thank you for stopping by.

    Wow this is stunning! I remember why I like WOYWW so much, there are so many skills and ideas. I really like your felting.

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  42. Thanks for visiting my desk, Sorry i'm a bit late.
    Your felting as always is spectacular
    Hugz Minxy #11

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  43. Those mini felted pictures are gorgeous!

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  44. Love the Keep Calm and WOYWW on ATC. Boy, someone was very clever to come up with that. I have no idea what felting is but I like the outcome--your miniature felted pictures. Very cool stuff!

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  45. I saw (IRL) the beautiful felted ATC that you sent my friend Sandra de. It is absolutely gorgeous!
    Happy WOYWW!

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  46. I'm always amazed by your WOYWW entry...I've never seen or heard about these techniques.
    Fascinating.
    The ATC's are fantastic. You've got a wonderful collection there ;D
    Happy WOYWW and apologies for being so late visiting!

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  47. Strange word but gorgeous craft
    Bridget #13

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  48. Gorgeous mini felted pictures Jo, love the colours :-)
    Anne x

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  49. Oh how pretty those Felted pictures are! I love them, really fancy a go at felting, might have to you tube a how to on it! Once I have a desk to work on that is, its gone for now, oooo anxiety driven already & its only been 6 hours :(
    Lavinia #5
    x

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  50. happy WOYWW! oh my gosh, those wet felted garden are just gorgeous. your dumfling projects, like the poppies and ATCs, never cease to amaze me.
    hugs, #15 peggy aplSEEDS

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  51. love the machine embroidery with the felting, it's stunning

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  52. I'm in love with your poppy dumflings. They are absolutely dumflinicous!!! Hugs Mrs A.

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  53. Hi Jo! Been browsing all you gorgeous felt creations tonight! They are just so beautiful-reminds me of Monet paintings! Thanks for always sharing your beauties with us. Enjoyed seeing all your ATCs too! Happy WOYWW!

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  54. Oh wow, I once saw something like this on Kirsty Allsopp's show. Yours are amazing. Take care, am snooping still on Sunday, late but determined to get round more than I have for a few weeks! Zo xx 73

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  55. Love love the poppies Jo, and the fact that your gorgeous Dd comes home to bust the stress, she's as clever as you, huh. loving your felting, you have a real sympathy for florals and colours, huh.

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  56. love your dumfing it is so pretty.
    Nice to have crafty days with other crafty friends.Especially when you get such pretty outcomes ;-)
    caroline #137

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  57. Your felt pictures are so beautiful - I want to try that now! Such a cute wee bird and ATC. Thanks for sharing.
    Bernice

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  58. Heartfelt Silks palm washboards are great for people who can't roll when wet felting.

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Thanks for all your comments. I really appreciate your thoughts and ideas.