Picture of the finished felt road sign!

The finished road sign!

Here is the image of the finished sign as promised, I choose the oak leaves for the corners as I hope to plant some of my land with decidious trees and oaks are one of my favourites. I just had a little shaving to do this morning to bring up the clarity of the colours (check out my Flickr images for a couple of close ups prior to shaving) and I also measured the piece to see how much it had shrunk. The sign as laid out ready to felt was 1050mm X 900mm and now measures 750mm X 620mm, quite a big of shrinkage to get a sturdy piece of felt but hopefully you will agree, worth the effort! I now need to persuade Alan to make me a type of base to my own design, this will be what I actually hang the sign from and I think that I might go so far as to add some felt streamers to it to add to the fun effect!! Will keep you updated.

6 thoughts on “Picture of the finished felt road sign!”

Very cool, nice work!

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okay, this is not about your sign but my own felting. I began felting again after reading your blog. It has been 20 years since I picked up a fleece. So, I decided to begin slowly by using roving instead of raw fleece…. since I did not own a pair of carding combs. Anyway my first 2 pieces felted nicely, though they were merely experiments and not meant at am entity in their own right. http://www.seegart.wordpress.com.

Yesterday, I dunno what happened I suppose I should take pics for you to have a better understanding but the top layer kind of peeled off. I will get pics taken and loaded later tonight. So, you might be able to enlighten me. I thought I might be able to needle felt it back on. Tis soooo weird.

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Thanks for the inspiration by the way. Your work is handsome, tight and excellent quality–at least as shown on my screen. I can imagine the wool jewelry is warm in the cold of winter in contrast to silver or gold metal. Your shapes are lovely.

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