Felted fairy tales! Got a dragon in the works too…
A little behind-the-scenes peek below. Pushed the dining room table up to the window, propped up a watercolor backdrop and white foam core board to bounce some light.
Yes, that is a Battlestar Galactica Limited Edition dvd set propping up the ponies. Pretty technical here at the Leporte house. 🙂 Once I’ve got the shot, I bring it into Photoshop and add things. The usual. Castles in the mist and such. With my go-to brush — #36 chalk.
I usually forget to take a snapshot of my felties as I’m starting them, but this time I did! Something like these two (Roxy & Raz) might take me about four hours or so to finish, but I never do something like this all at once. Honestly what I love about needle-felting — you can set it down and come back to it whenever you want. No patterns, no sewing. And all you need is a foam block, a felting needle and some wool.
I’m kind of smooshing two posts in one. But the bike ride we just went on was pretty fairy-tale magical. Something about fall… These ornamental grasses — the gentle rushing sound of them in the wind — a gossamer ocean of white. My Grandma Alice always loved watching pampassgrass blowing. I might have to plant these lovelies in our yard.
Iowa has some incredible bike trails, and this one right off Urbandale Ave & MLK Â (Inner Urban Trail) is one of my faves.
This is Iowa.
