A little extra….

I decided to create a neck wrap with the section of embellished felt that was left over from the skirt. A felt ball wrapped in a felt rope will act as a brooch to pin the scarf together.

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Adjustments…

When I put the skirt onto the dressmaker model, there was a gaping effect around the waste line. As the skirt will be exhibited in this way it was important to tailor it to the model. The shrinkage was calculated. So then, I spot felted the skirt in two areas to make these adjustments. I [...]

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Trying the skirt on a human model

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Attaching the wrap skirt together

I initially tried a felt rope but I decided to needle felt some pink felt and then embellish it with Swarovski crystals for continuity. Finally, I added a brooch back to the felt so it would be easy to take the skirt on and off. Plus the brooch could be worn as a separate piece [...]

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Embellishing the skirt with Swarovski crystals…

Adding Swarovski crystals was important to this design to add to the ethereal quality of the skirt. The way the crystals naturally twinkle in the sunlight can also be compared to how people feel that they glimpse fairies at the bottom of the garden out if the corner of their eye.

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Decorative edges using stitch

The panels were sewn together using decorative stitching.

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Pinning the panels together to form a skirt.

The felt panels were pinned together from light to dark, so that the eye would observe a gradient of colour. The embellished panel was then chopped in half because it was too overpowering. The panels were then arranged on a dressmakers model to see how the skirt would fall. Following this the cobweb and nuno [...]

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Nuno and cobweb felts to add to the skirt panels

The four felt panels needed to be treated as a backgrounds. So, I made different cobweb and nuno felts based on the wing shape of a fairy. These pieces were made in a similar way to the cobweb and nuno felt posts made earlier incorporating felt ropes and half felt balls. When I placed the [...]

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Final resisted felt panel for skirt

This panel was made in the same way as the resist me post. I love the way the angelina fibres shimmer under the organza layer.

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Embellished skirt panel

This panel was made in the same way as the sample in the embellisher blog post earlier. The panel was initially twice the width but when it was pinned onto the model it looked too overpowering, so it was chopped in half.

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