OMG, someone likes me...

So, I got all linkedy linked today and sorta featured in a blog write up on the joys of wool and felt, if you go to Moods and Appetites, you can see it. They pictured my Winter Majesty Necklace. You can also see some other impressively amazing felt work by some artists that totally make me drool, and who I DO NOT feel worthy to be pictured with.

I shamefully COVET that felted cat skull. Morbid? Yes. Fantastic? Abso-freakin-lutely!

Just call me Garth...

I'm not worthy....I'm not worthy....I'm not worthy

Winter White Majesty Necklace

This is the Winter Majesty Necklace. It is a blend of cream and white merino and corriedale rovings that were wet felted and then sculpted. It is embellished with freshwater pearls and some very tiny sweet pearly seed beads. I simply adore the sculptural nature of this piece, and think that it is one of the most visually interesting and inspired things I have made in some time.

I can imagine the White Witch of you-know-where wearing this to a garden party before she drinks some sweet pale wine. It would look amazing with a simply cut evening dress....or a black V-neck T-shirt. It would be divine for a winter wedding! It weighs hardly a thing for being so substantial.

The process of building it was really organic, in that I started with the curly-cues and then went out from there, adding elements and sculpting parts as the necklace called for them. The part that is slightly redolent of a marriage between an open egg and a bird's nest dusted with spun sugar was actually felted around a small stone from my garden, which I then freed from it's woolly captivity. The tiny felt and pearl "cameo" on the opposite side is the doorway through which the stone made it's exit.

I'm almost too much in love with it to let it go....almost, but not quite. It could be yours...just go to Etsy.