A Day In The Life #8 - Scientific Petri Dishes!

While it's been lovely weather today in soggy old Yorkshire I've taken advantage of the weather and took a few little snap's of my creations which I did today. I got a little bored of creating needle felted bacterial petri dishes to sew on my exhibition scarf and decided to create some more nicer and mixed media bacterial petri dishes which shall be put in real scientific petri dishes to put on show at my exhibition. 

I used my normal technique of building colours up and needle felting them together eventually creating a wide circle. I then used different coloured angelina fibers and needle felted them in too. I think this is what really makes it come to life and look really nice, I then felted some little circles on top of all this to make it look like some bacteria growing on it. 

They fit perfectly in the petri dishes I ordered of ebay. I think they will look really great for my exhibition. Although they are easy to do they are quite time consuming. 

I hope you all liked my short but sweet day in life - fingers crossed tomorrows will be filled with lot's of sun as the weather is due to be nice. 

Thank you all for reading x

A Day In The Life #6

Today's productive day was spent in my bedroom surrounded by lot's of wool, plenty of packets of angelina fibres and enough jewelry making rings for ten dozen finger's. That's right, I spent my day making needle felted rings!! I've been trying to perfect these rings for a while, I wanted to make them look wearable but still really cool and colourful to fit in with my project, Today I got it right and I am really excited to share it all with you guys.

Gathering little amounts of different coloured wool, I felted them together to make a circle or an oval shape and using invisible string, a bit like fishing wire, I sowed the ring to the felt making sure it was really safe and secure. I then felted more wool onto the ring to cover the string and then covered with angelina fibers.

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I really love how these rings have turned out and I am going to make as many as I can for my exhibition. I got really excited using angelina fibers and decided to use interfacing to create pages of angelina fibers to sew onto my big exhibition scarf. These look amazing, basically what you do is put down some paper and then some interfacing over it, layer up your angelina fibers and then put some paper over the top of it then iron the paper, when you lift the paper up the fibers have all stuck together and gone hard like a page and it looks amazing, I got a bit excited doing this and produced lot's of outcomes...

Today was a really productive day and I am really grateful that I can do these things at home as it really saves me time. Tomorrow I shall be using the heat press at college to add my holographic heat transfers to my big scarf. I hoped you liked this blog post, lot's of shiny things to keep you entertained! See you all tomorrow for #7 of my day in the life series. 

Thank you for reading x