Swirls of Merino wool flowers, ready to be felted into a scarf or two

I did a felting course on Thursday and Friday last week, so on Saturday I wanted to play around with what I learned.

I dragged out an old bag of leftover Merino bits. The bits were all mixed together and not that inspiring. A bit like when you mix too much paint and all you get is brown. I set about untangling and sorting and had a lovely time creating these ‘flowers’ above.

I am not an experienced felter yet, so thought I’d experiment with embedding them into a scarf. I didn’t know how they would take, given they were a bit worked already, just from hanging around with other bits of wool in the same bag. I placed a thin layer of wool fibres over the top of each flower before felting, just to see if they’d anchor in place.

I am delighted with the result!

Emmylou - felted scarf with 'flowers'

So delighted, in fact, I made another one straight after it, though this time I shaped the scarf around the flowers shown in the first picture.

Felicity - purple, blue and orange felted scarf with 'flowers'

You can see more pictures on my etsy site.