Thowing Some Wool Around...

My First Wet Felted Scarf ...merino and mohair...

"Harvest Dance"

Enjoy!

Deb

For Marissa...

This is going to be a bit unusual...this post is for my niece, Marissa.  I'm making the jewelry for her wedding as my gift to her and she wanted to see what I planning.  And some of my online friends might enjoy seeing the pieces, too....

Marissa, I'm thinking of doing variations of leaf motifs for all of the jewelry.  For the moms I have a design that has become one of my signature pieces, a stylized leaf shape.

For Will's mom, wearing black and gold, a piece similar to the one in the center below...gold and silver with a sunstone.  It would be on a vermiel mini omega chain.

For your mom, the same design set with holley blue chalcedony.

For the bridesmaids, an enameled ginkgo leaf...like this one but without the purple...all the enamel in shades of green...

And for you, a sprig of leaves with enameled leaves...

 Open work like the one above...on a strand of green amethysts instead of the garnet...and with enameling and stones set like the piece below...

Let me know what you think...

Deb

"Fossils" Big Hole Bead Pendant...

Did you ever let a gallery have a piece of your art work to sell and then really hope that it didn't?  This was one for me...I'm glad to have it back ...

Enjoy!

Deb

A new jewelry photo...

A wrap around ring with garnet cabochon and Keum Boo accent...

Enjoy!

Deb

Ammonite Earrings...

I thought I would post a photo of these...I made them last fall, but never got a good photo of them before...

I layered a small molded silver ammonite over a slice of a real ammonite fossil and a textured silver circle and made a pair of sterling silver earwires to hold it all together....

Here's a photo of the back of one of them so you can see how the earwires are shaped.

Enjoy!

Deb

Adventures in Color...Tints, Tones and Shades....

Tints are a pure color mixed with white (or diluted with water for our dyeing purposes). Tones are color mixed with gray and shades are color mixed with black. By mixing the colors with gray or black I achieved the earthier, muted colors that I am interested in working with.

I made many mixtures of warm blue-violet with water, gray (10% black and 90% water) and black dye.

After making many yarn test samples I came up with mixtures that gave me the colors I was looking for.

I made test dye samples for several more colors, added them to my color wheels with notes on the porportions of color, water and black dye.....

….and then it was play time!!

"Moss"

Blue Faced Leicester wool, Mulberry silk and firestar

"Blueberries"

Merino wool, Mulberry silk and angelina

"Boysenberries"

Merino, angora, silk and angelina

I am very happy with the batts I made with the fiber from my first hand mixed dye experiments.  The "Boysenberries" colorway is exactly what I wanted for a shawl that I have been planning for myself.  I'm going to have to dye up a large batch of fiber and I know I can match the color again ... I have the recipes on my color wheel cards!  Then I'm going to spin it up and crochet myself a lovely shawl...and I'm already thinking of designs for the shawl pin I'll make to go with it...something with silver and amethyst I think....

Enjoy!

Deb

Adventures in Color...Tints, Tones and Shades....

Tints are a pure color mixed with white (or diluted with water for our dyeing purposes). Tones are color mixed with gray and shades are color mixed with black. By mixing the colors with gray or black I achieved the earthier, muted colors that I am interested in working with.

I made many mixtures of warm blue-violet with water, gray (10% black and 90% water) and black dye.

After making many yarn test samples I came up with mixtures that gave me the colors I was looking for.

I made test dye samples for several more colors, added them to my color wheels with notes on the porportions of color, water and black dye.....

….and then it was play time!!

"Moss"

Blue Faced Leicester wool, Mulberry silk and firestar

"Blueberries"

Merino wool, Mulberry silk and angelina

"Boysenberries"

Merino, angora, silk and angelina

I am very happy with the batts I made with the fiber from my first hand mixed dye experiments.  The "Boysenberries" colorway is exactly what I wanted for a shawl that I have been planning for myself.  I'm going to have to dye up a large batch of fiber and I know I can match the color again ... I have the recipes on my color wheel cards!  Then I'm going to spin it up and crochet myself a lovely shawl...and I'm already thinking of designs for the shawl pin I'll make to go with it...something with silver and amethyst I think....

Enjoy!

Deb