Baby jackets

Two new baby jackets available in sizes Newborn - 3months and 3 - 6 months. Lightweight handfelted merino wool on cotton muslin.

Available in Sydney for Christmas

Eucalyptus cinerea. Cotton muslin wrap/large scarf. Hand dyed and hand stitched.




Brown Onion Skins. Cotton muslin scarf. Hand dyed and machine stitched.




Old Roses. Cotton muslin scarf, hand dyed with old style magenta roses from the garden. Hand stitched.

For information re: my Sydney outlet, contact me: lismertens@hotmail.com

Donated to the Bushfire Brigade Annual Christmas Fundraiser Raffle.


The top scarf is hand felted merino wool and tissue silk. The bottom one is the merino wool/silk roving 50/50 combination. Both were hand dyed with Eucalyptus cinerea leaves, with surprisingly different results.

New arrivals

A cot blanket for Jonas Timothy, born earlier this month. Hand felted merino wool with recycled kimono silk and crochet doilies - some made by his great grandmother - and hand stitched.



This jacket of hand felted merino wool on cotton muslin is for an Italian cousin whose birth is yet to be announced.

A similar one is available from Studio Altenburg, Braidwood. Size: Newborn to 3 months.



For Claudia, born yesterday in Italy. Hand knitted merino wool.




This little jacket is a combination of hand felted wool and cotton muslin, hand dyed with old roses from the garden. The central placket is hand felted from merino wool and silk. I made this one for a little "premmie" due to be delivered this week.

Decay

Decay = decomposition =

De – compost – ition: Tote

Explores the idea of reusing the earth’s resources to their full capacity.

Hand felted merino wool with cotton muslin lining, hand dyed using leaves from Eucalyptus Cinerea (Argyle Apple), picked up from under the tree, presumably ready for decomposition into mulch.

Machine sewn and trimmed with leather to become a tote, to help to avoid the use of plastic bags which take so much longer to decompose than leaves.

(30.5 x 7.5 x 34 cms.)

Special Challenge

A scarf of the Volutidae Shell design I have been working on. This shell is found rarely, off the coast of the Northern Territory. I am entering it in the class "Australiana - any article of felting depicting our Australian beaches. It is a combination on merino wool and tissue silk.

Canberra Show, 2012

It's approaching time to hand in items for the Canberra Show early in 2012.

As well as entering the Mandala Mat in the Hand Felted original item for the home in the Professional Class, I will show a Vest, called "Forest Floor" in the Hand Felted original item for the body.



The vest is made with a combination of merino wool and mohair on black tissue silk.




Detail of hand stitching.