The Cupcake Rose
Here is try number two at making a somewhat closer to normal sized flower for the Clare bag. Still unfelted. Not even put together at this point, but photographed with some common, household objects so that you can get a sense of scale. It should be smaller after felting.
Of course, that's what I was counting on with the first set of dinner-plate sized flowers. This isn't a cupcake, but a side shot of my felted rose sitting beside the Altoid box and in front of the laundry basket.
Perspective may be playing a bit here, I'll admit, because it's not actually as big as the basket. It just feels that way.
However, this guy has a destiny. I'm going to use the oversized flowers for my project for Knit the Classics this month. The book is Gulliver's Travels. I'm going to try to combine the Brobdingian and Lilliputian themes: the chapters in which Gulliver is much, much larger than the townspeople and the part in which he is much, much smaller. If you haven't read the book, you must have memories of the 50s movie version, in which Gulliver, a fine strapping young man, is laced to the ground by a horde of tiny Lilliputians, and the part in which he runs along the top of a table and tries to escape by rapelling off the edge with a piece of thread. (Or was that a Star Trek episode?)
My plan is to play with scale in the project. Now, how small a sweater would a Lilliputian wear? And does it matter if you can't see the sweater behind the flower decorating it?
Of course, that's what I was counting on with the first set of dinner-plate sized flowers. This isn't a cupcake, but a side shot of my felted rose sitting beside the Altoid box and in front of the laundry basket.
Perspective may be playing a bit here, I'll admit, because it's not actually as big as the basket. It just feels that way.
However, this guy has a destiny. I'm going to use the oversized flowers for my project for Knit the Classics this month. The book is Gulliver's Travels. I'm going to try to combine the Brobdingian and Lilliputian themes: the chapters in which Gulliver is much, much larger than the townspeople and the part in which he is much, much smaller. If you haven't read the book, you must have memories of the 50s movie version, in which Gulliver, a fine strapping young man, is laced to the ground by a horde of tiny Lilliputians, and the part in which he runs along the top of a table and tries to escape by rapelling off the edge with a piece of thread. (Or was that a Star Trek episode?)
My plan is to play with scale in the project. Now, how small a sweater would a Lilliputian wear? And does it matter if you can't see the sweater behind the flower decorating it?
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