Sometimes my imagination takes me to strange places, and when I return I
try to recreate those places in my needlework.
This was to be a fantasy garden with magical mushrooms (no, no, not THOSE
ones....)
The work started as a piece of wet felting for the base and the cap. The
stem of the mushroom was made by needlefelting some firmly bundled wool which
was then attached to the base using a felting needle. The cap was attached the same way.
As the cap was embroidered it became too heavy to hold up on its own so I wired the rim.
As the cap was embroidered it became too heavy to hold up on its own so I wired the rim.
The more I embroidered and embellished I began to catch glimpses of a dragon face in the mushroom cap.
These next pictures look like a different piece but they are the same, my
camera settings altered the colour slightly in the daylight.
Hope this short video doesn’t make you dizzy, I was holding the camera in
one hand and twirling the lazy susan with the other.
As you can see it was now developing a distinctly dragonish look.
There is a theory that dragons still live amongst us, but man has not
always been kind to them, so they have learnt to hide from our sight.
Sometimes we will catch a glimpse of something dragon-like, something that
stops us in our tracks and makes us wonder – “did I just see a dragon”
What if this were a real dragon hiding in the garden, camouflaged amongst
the flowers and fungi.
It was time to dismantle the mushroom and wonder if I could coax the dragon
to reveal himself.
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