Inspiration: Soft stones

I really like UNIFORM Studio Blog because she talks a lot about the inspiration for the pieces she makes and the process she goes through in creating her clothes. I think it would be fun to keep a log of what is inspiring or interesting to me (I realize this may not be at all interesting to you--sorry!). Also, I think it will be fun if I do make something to have a link to the source of inspiration.

Over the holidays I got into wet felting roving into balls. It started with a purchase from Wool Handcrafts. Then I went to the local yarn/wool store and ended up with $15 worth of roving (credit card minimum charge--$15 will buy a lot of roving).  After making all the Christmas ornaments and balls and felting kits I still had boatloads of wool.

When I saw this photo (via Design Sponge) (please follow that photo link, it's not even that exciting but took me a seriously long time to find again) I realized I wanted to make a bowl full of brightly colored wool "stones."

Tonight I finally got around to it:


I think they'll be a fun, toddler-friendly table decoration in a wood bowl (or maybe a felt bowl if I really get my act together).  They're all slightly different roundish shapes from about the size of a tiny tangerine to the size of a potato from the cheap 5# bag of potatoes (a smallish potato).

This was a fun evening project--I recommend it.

Comments

[lauren]

Oh, Melissa! Those are so fab. They would be adorable as Easter eggs!

[MIssy]

Hey Melissa!
Love your wool stones :) You can make them easter eggs! LOL! Felt some polk a dots on em!
Email me because I can't find your email and I want to know if you want some old cutter quilt pieces I have... if you do, I'll drop em off when I pick up Gracie at school :) If not, I'll put em in my good will pile :) I'm cleainin out my sewing room closet... BIG JOB! LOL!