Category Archives: Felting

Sunflower Purse

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I made another tentacle purse. This time around I altered Abbey’s pattern and made a sunflower.

Sunflower purse

I love how it turned out! It’s super cute and looks like a sunflower to me.

Sunflower purse

The purse is made with Lamb’s Pride worsted wool. This yarn felts beautifully.

Sunflower purse

Another shot of the top. I’m using snaps for the closure.

Sunflower purse

The petals and leaves are all pockets.

Sunflower purse

A picture of the purse before felting:

Sunflower purse

Weaving Southwest invited me to sell my flower purses at their store. I was delighted at the offer! This purse is for sale there now.

Pattern: Tentacle Purse
Source: Abbey
Yarn: Lamb’s Pride Worsted Wool, 5 skeins, some partial
Needles: 6.0 mm
Size: custom
Modifications: altered to look like a flower instead of tentacles
Started: March 2011
Finished: April 2011

Lunar Life

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I’m making individual posts for my art pieces so I can better catalog them.

Lunar Life

Lunar Life honors the traditional Pagan phases of a woman’s life-Maiden, Mother, Crone. It also uses the Pagan symbol of the triple moon which represents the Goddess.

Lunar Life

The Maiden is the top triple moon. She is a young girl dancing through spring. The trees and flowers are just beginning to bloom as is she. The spiral of life is in her chest since childhood is so full of emotional experiences.

Lunar Life

The Mother is the middle triple moon. The woman is in the midst of her garden. Trees and flowers are in full bloom. The spiral is in her womb because she is creating.

Lunar Life

The Crone is the last triple moon. The woman is floating upwards. The trees’ leaves have fallen and the flowers have died. The spiral is in her head because she is in the spiritual time of her life.

Lunar Life

The branch atop echoes the trees in the moons. The ribbons tie the moons together as the phases of life are tied together.

For this piece I spun several of the yarns. Techniques used were needle felting, embroidery and hand sewing.

Lunar Life was featured in the 2009 Beyond The Fringe art show. It also won second place in the Embroidery Division at the 2011 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta.

Felt flowers

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Remember my hat project? I’ve been wearing it for months and finally got around to taking pictures.

Flower hat

This was a wonderful and relaxing project. I knit I-cord for the vines and hand felted them in a Ziplock bag in the sink. Then I crocheted little circles and needle felted them.

Flower hat

After sewing the flowers onto the vine I sewed the vine onto the hat.

Flower hat

Both vine and flower yarns came from my stash. I love how it turned out!

Pattern: Felt Flowers and Branch
Source: Me
Yarn: stash yarn
Needles: small sock needles and small crochet hook, can’t remember details
Size: NA
Modifications: NA
Started: October 2010
Finished: February 2011

My first felt class

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Last month I taught my first felting class. The class was Introduction To Felting and was held at Creative Pieces (FB link). I talked about wet felting, needle felting, nuno felting, knitting to felt and felting sweaters for fabric.

Felt Class

Above is my table of felting samples. My class was small but I think it was a promising beginning.

Felting demonstration

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felt sunrise

I’ll be teaching a felting demonstration this Saturday at Creative Pieces (FB link) in Taos. The class is free and will start at 1pm, running for an hour.

“Come learn about felting techniques to use in your crafts. Fiber artist Twilight Kallisti will be showing examples of different types of felt. Learn about wet felting, needle felting, nuno felting, knitting to felt and felting sweaters for fabric. This is an introdution demonstration and no prior knowledge of felting is needed.”

If you’d like to RSVP or have any questions email me at twilly23 @ gmail.com

Bingo purse

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The tentacle purse turned out great!

Bingo purse

It’s a little smaller than my purse but I think that’s ok.

Bingo purse

The bottom of the purse:

Bingo purse

The mohair in Lamb’s Pride gives it a lovely halo.

Bingo purse

I’m happy with my color blending on the petals.

Bingo purse

I altered Abbey’s pattern and sewed on snaps for the closure. I liked the snaps so much I put one on my tentacle purse.

Bingo purse

A peek at the petal pockets.

Bingo purse

I sent it off to Bingo and Doug Stanhope emailed me back sending her thanks and said she loved it.

And here’s Doug posing with me after his show in Arizona last December.

Doug Stanhope

I asked him if he’d bite my tentacle (Ooh that sounds so pervy!) for the photo. He’s such a good sport for his fans.

Pattern: Tentacle Purse
Source: Abbey
Yarn: Lamb’s Pride Worsted, 5 skeins, some partial
Needles: 5.0 mm
Size: custom
Modifications: custom
Started: December 2010
Finished: January 2011

Tentacle purse prefelting

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In December Thebes and I drove to Arizona to see comedian Doug Stanhope. He’s one of my favorite comedians. I’ve linked to his YouTube videos if you want to check him out. I’ll warn you though he’s not for everyone-lots of cursing, sexual topics and raw politics. It’s all stuff I love of course.

Anyway, after the show I bought two of his CD’s from his girlfriend Bingo. I put my tentacle purse on the table to pull out my wallet. She loved my purse and wanted to buy it. But Abbey made it for me so I couldn’t. Instead I offered to make her one in her favorite colors. She wanted orange and pink.

Abbey gave me her instructions and I set off to make it.

Bingo tentacle purse

These are not normally my colors but I liked playing with them. There’s a lot of randomness and chaos in this pattern which was good for me.

Bingo tentacle purse

This is prefelted. It’s felted now and I’ll post pics of it soon.

Wild Orchid Purse

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When Abbey showed me her new purse I fell in love with it. I asked her to make me one. Check it out!

Wild Orchid Purse

She calls it the Wild Orchid. She made her own blog post about making it.

Wild Orchid Purse

I think it looks like a cross between a flower and a Muppet.

Wild Orchid Purse

I did make one alteration. The opening was too big for my tastes. So I sewed up little “pinches” around the opening to tighten it.

Wild Orchid Purse

The petals are pockets which means the purse is bigger than it looks. When looking for something I just feel the petals until I find what I’m looking for.

Wild Orchid Purse

The handle is just a tied knot.

Wild Orchid Purse

She did a great job on blending colors!

Wild Orchid Purse

A close up of a petal:

Wild Orchid Purse

The closure is an easy to work latch.

Wild Orchid Purse

I think the purse looks most like a flower when turned upside down.

Wild Orchid Purse

Thank you SO much Abbey! I love it so much!

The Portal figure

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An integral part of The Portal piece is a small figure going into the ice waterfall. I needle felted a small figure to show the scale of the waterfall. It’s so huge in real life!

The Portal

The I shaped it more and added hair.

The Portal

The Portal is opening up and the figure is entering into it. Where is she going? For me, she’s going back to Source, back to the Divine, becoming one with the Goddess. But I also want the observer to decide where she’s going.

Tonight was the Taos Fall Arts Festival! Abbey and Grant went with me and we had a blast. Post about that soon.

Mother piece project

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I finally started the central figure of my mother art piece.

Mother art piece

I had put it off because I hate dolls. They just seem like brainwashing to make girls think they should have babies. Abbey told me to think of it as a figure. That worked for me. Here’s the figure on the womb for scale:

Mother art piece

Then came time to open the figure’s womb. As I sat on my bed and cut the stomach open with scissors, I felt movement in my entire body. It was like a weight moving down my face, arms, stomach and thighs. It was intense.

Mother art piece

I’ve also been researching images of Endometriosis. Not pretty. But it does translate well to fiber art:

Mother art piece

The woven universe piece needs to hibernate for awhile so the Mother piece is going to be in this year’s Beyond The Fringe.