Felted Beads

Feeling the need to work on something warm, I hand-felted these beads.

Each bead started as a fairly thick pile of wool and silk fibers.

I also added some thick wool strands to each flat felt square,

Here are all the beads rolled, hand stitched and beaded.

I just love the possibility at this point. There was a slim chance that the beads would not be strung. I wanted to keep them just like this.
But in the end I knew that I would rather wear them as a necklace.

If you like this project, it is one of the classes I am teaching at Mixed Minded this May!

Enjoy my Sunday Bead Blogger Links.

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