Patches Challenge

I have just been experimenting with the "patches" nedlefelt challenge. I started with a piece of that Lutrador-like fabric/paper (wish i knew what it was called). I bought a few more sheets yesterday in various colours. I started with gold today. I then layered a silk hanky. The silk hankies come in a few layers but I separated them and just used one. I felted it and added some squares of various fabrics: hand dyed silk velvet, metallic organza and pieces of felted fibres I received way back in 2005 from Ellen Slattery who felts what looks like knitted pieces.

I then added another layer of the hand dyed silk hanky. I love those skeleton leaves and so I added a couple to the corners of the piece, one underneath the silk fibres and one on top just to see what the difference would be. I felted both from the top and the back. By raising the distance of the needles from the fabric I felted those rather thick pieces of felt easily. The Babylock Embellisher has handled all of these fabrics very well without breaking any needles!

Here is a close up of the silk velvet. I must do something with those skeleton leaves and the embellisher. I need a box for my fabric postcards so I think that's what I am going to do next. Not today I need to go pack for class.