Needle-Felted Journal Cover

Monday afternoon a longtime goal was realized. I started meeting with some girls on a regular schedule to do art. I put together a sample project for inspiration

and we made it. I'm calling the group Creative Playtime. This week we needle felted journal covers.

We started with an 8x10 piece of wool onto which we felted wool roving, wool scraps and various yarns. By using a barbed needle to push fiber through the wool, they are joined 

creating a single piece of fiber.

 

After the design is felted onto the wool, the wool was then attached to an 8x10 piece of matboard with one of my favorite iron-on products: Wonder-Under.

 

After affixing the wool to the matboard,  words were stamped onto the cover

 

and dots were added with permanent Sharpie markers and gel pens.

With the final addition of wire binding by my Zutter binding system, the journal was completed.

Can't wait for next week's Creative Playtime.