Feeling a bit inspired by the most beautiful baby, I’ve just recently started playing with baby dresses. I’ve always wanted to try felting a garment in one piece, but never really got around to it. When my daughter was born, I owned a knitting store, so all of her dresses were either knit or crocheted. Now that I’m felting full time, I haven’t had much of a reason to felt a baby dress until now. The first dress was for baby Alaia Jane, born into our family about 3 weeks ago. In Basque, Alaia means “Joy”. We got to meet her this weekend and she simply took our breath away… So perfect, so innocent, so precious… I’m in love…
A simple and natural, extra fine merino and silk dress with a crocheted scalloped edge in Manos del Uruguay’s Serena seemed just right.
I cut a template based on a dress that I had knit for my daughter for her first birthday. By the fall, this will look so adorable with a tunic and a pair of wooly tights…
I loved felting this dress so much so, that I needed to felt a couple more right away, felting ADD if you will (so many things I actually NEED to do, but let’s just start a new obsession anyway), typical Aries I suppose! I started felting with the Short Fiber Merino from New England Felting Supply not too long ago, and from one felter to another, this merino is a felting game changer. It’s UNBELIEVABLE to felt with, it felts quickly and buttery soft to the touch and has incredible drape! Yesterday i received another shipment of these amazing wool batts, and I will be felting as soon as I finish this post! Here are the next two dresses I worked on. The dress on the left was nuno felted over a piece of midnight blue chiffon, I love the spontaneous asymmetry of the silk, kind of fragile but really strong all at the same time…
Just lovely… Potent…