New Life for tired Vessels.Looking at a couple of vessels that I felted a couple of years back I noticed they were sun bleached and looked a bit sad. Out came the dye pot and dyes, Teal Green, Hot Pink, Turquoise and Purple, I dyed them in sections, tying the vessels to the saucepan handle with thread so they didn’t become one colour. I love playing like this as you never quite know the outcome and the beauty is you can always over dye if you don’t like what comes out.
These are the vessels when first made.
Over time they had gone pale, sun bleached and sad so the dye pot has given them a new life.

I am a member of the UK Embellished Swap group and have signed up to an "African Art Page" looking on the Internet I found lots of images for inspiration and when at the quilt show I bought this lovely piece of cotton and beads to make a book cover for the pages I receive, might even make a couple of pages for myself if I find the time.


I layered up some organza, muslin, silk etc and stitched lines and split with an "unpickmequick"gadget, roughed it up then painted with walnut ink. The second piece didn't take the walnut ink as the top couple of layers are organza. These are backgrounds for embellished masks.

After cutting the material for the cover I had a piece left over so I cut the figures and elephants out, made some embellished backgrounds using bright orange and red dyed silk chiffon, black grey and blue organza, then ironed the figures and elephants on using mistyfuse.

Labels: embellisher, Felted vessels