Progress on Purple/Green Woven Wall Hanging!

Progress in being made on Purple/Green Woven Wall Hanging!

Here is the muslin backing.  I painted it with acrylic green and neon green fabric paint.  The neon is sparkly!

I used this Curly Q rubber stamp to reflect the circles on the front of the weaving.  I painted it with purple fabric paint and also added a little bit of the neon green and stamped away.  Gosh that's fun!  So, I thought why not see if I can put it on the weaving itself!!  Ah ha, those fabric strips - by jove - it worked!

See!  Here's the top of the hanging.

See, here's a little closer.

See, here's the bottom - colors are not good in this picture - looks like a candy Easter Basket - sorry.  I took this and the pictures above in my artroom with the lights on.

SEEEEEEEE, better light here AND this is it FINISHED (almost) - notice that the cords top left are captured in a loop of the fabric strip, I moved the heart to the right, cords that were dangling from the top two circles are now caught and looped to look like stems, the cord on the bottom left is would around captured with french knot embroidery stitches and a light green wool yarn which previously hung out, is needlefelted into the middle of the left swirll!

Now all that's left is to machine stitch the backing, hand stitch it to the weaving, figure out what to do with the loops, dye a dowel (sounds funny) and make end felted beads!

Woven Wall Hanging, "Under the Pond"

I've been working on getting my Woven Wall Hangings ready to list on Etsy.  This morning I cut the painted muslin strips I made as seen in my previous post (back to that later).

Here is the second of two on Etsy!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67190054/woven-wall-hanging-under-the-pond


When I began this weaving (my first), I start with a yarn - - none in particular.  I know it's the wild abandon of just picking and choosing I like.  I rely on my eye to make the selection.  I do look for some balance of color and texture as I go along, but I don't agonize over it (thank heavens for that).  If I did, where would be the fun?  The yarn which is what I call, the "setup", is cotton - straight from JoAnne's Fabrics.  The light green I bought at a Sheep and Wool Festival years ago.  I did make a sweater out of it - wow, chunky is not the word!  Some of the other is artist yarn - you know, fancies.  Of course, there has to be a "Felted" somewhere.  You can see it in the third picture on the right side.

I love this one because there are so many different yarns, one felted cord and that gorgeous focal bead!  Of course, the colors are great from pale to dark.  I painted the dowel green.  

Here's the back, painted muslin, signed, dated and named.  I moved the two needle felted beads more towards the center of the dowel - they are moveable and I'm giving the option of having them glued by none other than me.

Here's a closer look

The focal bead is from this great Etsy shop.  http://www.etsy.com/shop/macarroll.  I bought the bead first (and some smaller ones) and then chose the yarn.