The Woolly Fish Quilt is finished!!
Woolly Fish, the idea of it, is so crazy. I used the drawings from my Tropical Fish pattern which I first published in 1990 as a cotton quilt. I've been focusing on wool since 2007 when I found the felting tool. I have been tweaking my technique ever since. Behind each critter is a wool applique on top of a hand dyed wool background. Then I used the felting tool with three barbed needles, to poke wool hand dyed fibers, covering up the applique so you can't see any of it. The applique serves as a easy way to copy the shape of a design without tracing. More and more fish appliques were arranged and poked and then the environment was incorporated into the design...a sea fan, sea weeds, kelp, sea cucumbers that look like tubes, and corals... The backgrounds are composed of 10" hand dyed strips, going sideways. Some were not the right size for the width of the quilt as it was developing, so I added scraps by felting th...