Leedra Scott creates wonderful art on her custom knit purses with freehand needle felting. This lovely purse is her design, and she shares a little more on her method for needle felting onto knit items.
” I knit my purses and [washing] machine felt. I thoroughly dry the purse before beginning any needle felting, Looking at a photograph I apply a small amount of roving and place on the purse where it looks right to me. All my designs are freehand, so I can’t even duplicate. I totally apply with the felting needles and mostly use the one needle application for the complete design. I prefer the New Zealand Corriedale roving, but do have others that I include in the designs.
I have very small amounts of roving from others usually a color picked up at a local fiber festival. I would say 95% of my roving came from Living Felt. I also have tried other needles, but don’t like them at all. They are in a box for ‘just in case’…”
Her creativity flows forth through different mediums, and you can see more from Leedra online:
www.heirloomgoods.com
www.heirloomgoods.blogspot.com
and of course, her Etsty shop! :O) http://www.etsy.com/shop/leedrasheirloomgoods
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Hi: I know Leedra personally and have been in awe of her work. I have done some needle felting but nothing on the scale of what Leedra does. I need to practice more but don’t know if I could ever ‘freehand’ something that actually looks like a bird- flowers maybe!!
Bev
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