Yesterday I started on a small coral reef and this morning I got it finished and stuffed. It is meant to be a backdrop for the other creatures and coral that I am making, add some colour to the background. I got it a bit more colourful than I wanted but with enough things on it I think it will do the job.  The hole in the middle ended up much too big so I will have to figure out a way to make it appear smaller.  Any suggestions anyone?

The coral reef is the thing with the hole in the middle. Enough said.

I started on a much smaller piece as I am suffering from a head cold and I was not up to any large projects today. Some of you are not familiar with felting so I thought I would do a play by play of this piece. It is 4 layers of wool in 4 different colours and is approximately 12″ x 12″. 1st layer. Is a raspberry colour, as I am in Iceland I am using Icelandic wool instead of my usual merino.

2nd layer is green , kind of hard to see in this picture, is laid perpendicular to the layer underneath.

3rd and 4th layers more of the same, so now there are 4 layers of wool and I wet that out, it is laying on bubble wrap with the bubble side up,  I put the bubble wrap over top as well as under the wool and rub over the surface to make sure the piece is wet through.  Then I start to roll it.  I wrap the bubble wrap around a pool noodle and wrap that in a towel, I am making this into a prefelt as I have more plans for it so I roll it 100 times on each side until it starts to make a very soft piece of felt.

Take it out of the bubble wrap, let it dry and start to stitch it as I want to make a creature that has folds, I stitch up three sections of the felt. Wet and soap it and felt it until it is good and firm and rinse all of the soap out of it.  This is what the piece now looks like, you can see some of the stitching.  I will take that out tomorrow and start to cut away at the wings to show the different colours that I laid out.  The piece is drying overnight.

Thanks for checking what is going on in my world.