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Try these variations on our felted scarf theme
Bonfire Slash
(a) Make basic scarf, but with these changes. Begin and end the
scarf with red wool. Then use 2 slightly varying shades of orange side by side
for the body. The colors will blend themselves into each other as you work the
fibers into felt. To add red slashes, see instructions for scarf (d).
Easy Weaver
(b) Although this airy scarf looks like it’s made of
woven strips of
felt, it isn’t! The actual process is much simpler. The
warp and weft are made
from narrow strips of wool laid out on top of
each other, the “wefts” atop the
“warps,” then pressed, or felted,
together. You will need approximately 2 ounces
of olive and 10 ounces
of red wool.
1. First, lay out the 4 center warp
strips on your work
surface in the following way. Each strip is 72” long and 1”
wide and is
composed of 1 layer of shingled wool, not the multiple layers in the
scarves above. Shingle the pieces of wool in each strip the long way,
making
4 center warp strips laid out about 1” apart.
2. Next,
make about 40 weft
strips, each about 1” wide, shingled in the same way
as the warp strips, above.
3. Lay the weft strips over the warp
strips, also about 1” apart. To
complete the layout, make 2 more warp
strips the same size as the original 4 and
lay them over the weft
strips, one on either side of the original 4 warp strips.
You will then
have the 4 warp strips as the base, the 40 weft strips laid over
them,
with the final 2 warp strips laid on top, making 3 layers.
4. Cover
these layers
with a piece of nylon curtain netting fabric or window
screen
mesh to prevent the fibers from shifting as you work on the
scarf.
5.
Proceed with soapy water procedure, starting with Step 3
in the instructions for
basic felt scarf. You may need to lift up
screen or netting and use a Popsicle
stick or other tool to keep the
square spaces between the warps and wefts open
as you felt the scarf.
Adorn with felted squares and circles that are
cross-stitched on
scarf.
Red Hot Poker
(c) Make as you would for the basic
scarf, but
use equal amounts of red and orange wool, laid out in alternating
bands, each about 6 inches. Along the edge of each color band,
add a
small
amount of wool protruding out from the edge. Twist
into points as
you felt the
wool. This will create the
“pokers” that form the scarf’s
border.
Autumn’s Bounty
(d) Make the basic scarf, but using equal
amounts of orange, olive, and
plum wool. To form the
vertical bands
that are the key to this
scarf, lay each
shingled row out in thirds of
each color,
continuing
the entire length of the
scarf.
Before
felting,
add surface decoration as follows.
1. Lay thin
wisps of
other colors of wool in top of the batt. This will create
subtle lines
or streaks.
2. To make grapes, wrap small
amounts of
plum-colored wool
around your finger to make a ring
and place
these on
the batt.
3. For sharply
edged
shapes, layer a
small amount of wool
on your work surface,
then cut it
into a
shape, such as a leaf. Then
lay
that on top of the
batt. The
process
of felting
will
bind
the appliqué to the body of
the scarf.
4. You might
want to make
tiny felted balls and
sew them in place
after the scarf is
dry.
This
is done by
simply
taking a small wad of wool and wrapping lengths
of
wool
tightly around it. Add layers until the ball is about twice the size
you
want it to be. Saturate the ball in soapy water and roll it from
hand
to hand.
Do not squeeze. Do this for about 10 minutes,
dipping
the ball
again into hot
water as it cools,
then rolling it
some more. Soon it
will begin to harden.
Rinse with cool water
and let dry.
5. Feel
free to
embellish your leaf shapes
with outline and veins stitched in
a
contrasting shade either
by hand or machine
after
scarf is dry.
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