Fan Coral Scarf

Hand felted merino wool on a layer of fine tissue silk, overlaid with design in alpaca yarn and tissue silk selvedges.

For Jill...

BRAG "Off the Wall" Summer Exhibition

BRAG  ‘Off the Wall’  Summer Exhibition Opening Night & Christmas party Thursday 12 Dec, from 6.30pm Exhibition Thurs 12 Dec - Mon 27 Jan, Weekends 10am-3pm The Braidwood Regional Arts Group's first summer exhibition. ‘Off the Wall’ is an exhibition that will allow purchaser’s to take their artworks with them immediately, as Christmas gifts or souvenirs of their summer trip through Braidwood. A Christmas Gift Sales table will be available for BRAG members work priced under $100. Details: websitewww.bragart.com.au or email:artscentreinquiry@bragart.com.au Image: detail, South Coast, Jack Featherstone

My entries:

Geometry and Gesture #1

Geometry and Gesture #2

And Gesture

Christmas Party @ the Fire Shed

Donations for the raffle:

Hand felted silk and wool scarf hand dyed with E. cinerea leaves after dyeing in an immersion bath of brown onion skins, and

Hand felted silk and merino wool, "Cherry Blossom" scarf.

Learning about colour...

From this...

To the finished scarf.

Detail

A scarf to coordinate with Carla's Autumn colours

Began with tissue silk in ecru and a variegated dyed wool by Martien van Zuilen.

Finished scarf with machine stitched grid.

One thing leads to another...

Used an acrylic paint applied with a foam roller, collages with shapes cut from rice paper as a starting point, added silk and wool from the stash, and...

Voila!

Detail.

Some of this Winter's scarves...

Black tissue silk and merino wool.

Merino wool.