Did it work? Let's Find Out!

Good Evening!  What a day...woke up to rain...LOTS of rain...it was so wonderful to listen to it gushing down the drains.  Reminds me of our days on our sailboat, Sapphire.  Very soothing and peaceful.  And after getting the morning off to a good start I went into my 'studio' aka: the living room, to check out the results of my efforts last night to felt my circle prefelts onto a brown batt background.

I had separated my two projects, leaving the purse for later and just worked to finish what I hoped could be a coat, shawl, wrap, skirt or who knows what!  It went okay, but I did find that places where I had two layers of fabric generally didn't felt well - too thick. 



Close up of felted circle shows how fabric shrunk in and exposed wool below.



Here are four kinds of fabric plus a ribbon and yarn - all well felted.

And in some places the fabric only partially felted so I finally ended up pulling some off as they just were not going to be on securely enough.  And some that stayed on well ended up quite a bit different size than the felt circle of wool underneath them.  Still all in all not a bad deal once I was done.  I still hope to make a coat.  The batt ended up a bit thin in a few places so might have to use a lining for better wear if I make a coat.  I have it pinned into a coat shape.



Front of Coat in Progress




Back of Coat in Progress

So for future reference for a higher quality product I know that: 
I need to use thinner cloth than some of my samples; especially if I plan to overlap them
I could add some very, very thin layers of wool over the top of the circles to help secure them
I should work even slower so that things get more thoroughly attached before I full the item. 

The circles motif itself still looks to be a good design and what I have is certainly a usable product so I am happy!  Tonight there are thunderstorms all around and over us.  Quite thrilling since I don't have to be out in it, nor worry about the anchor dragging.

Janet