finally, back in business

We got a new camera last night so I'm back in business updating the blogs today!

I'm trying to do seasonal scarves this year and this is my first. As you can see it's a bit thin at the edges, but with some hand work ala Lori Flood (I had a fantastic felting workshop with her last August and learned a ton of things, including how to encourage the fiber to migrate to the thin spots).

The other end is much more stable, but I still did quite a bit of hand work on it to make sure it shrank evenly along the length. I also wanted to make sure that the hearts were firmly in place.

I made the hearts as prefelts - I needle felted almost a dozen in a variety of colors for the scarves I'm going to work on the rest of the week.

Here's the scarf after doing a few minutes of fulling by hand. You can see how much it's shrunk compared to where I started. And the ends both look nice and solid. My one quibble is that the one end that was on the inside for the last roll on the machine shows the bubble wrap pattern vs the other end.

I was going to throw it a bit to see if I can beat the pattern out, but I'm pretty happy with it as is so I'll probably leave it and start my next one.

My next scarf is going to come from this pile of fiber