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I know I said yesterday that I wouldn’t blow my trumpet anymore, but I am again very pleased with another scarf I made today.  Several years ago my friend showed some of my scarves to a friend of hers who is a very good textile artist, who thought my scarves were good (they were actually too heavy) but would look lovely with a scallop edge.  Well despite several attempts I had never been able to achieve this effect, but whilst nodding off last night I had a light bulb moment.  If I put semi circles around the edge of the scarf instead of full circles as in the previous post, would this create a scallop edge……….

Several days ago I found some silk (in my stash) from Treetops Colours in the rhubarb colour way.  Whilst deciding what colours to use on a purple silk chiffon scarf I realised the treetops’ silk was purple, ‘weld’ green and salmon pink.  Now I like to use strong colours but would never have thought to put purple and salmon pink together but the result is absolutely amazing.  I placed the fibre on the scarf and felted it as in my previous post again placing silk that I had dyed with weld around the merino semi circles.

…………and the result is scalloped edges.

Nuno Felted Scarf with a Scallop Edge

Scallop Edge Close Up

Tags: nuno felt, nuno felted scarf, nuno felting, scallop edge

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