Wheel of Year in felt part 2

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I was so stoked on Tuesday evening after posting about my Wheel of the Year project that I went home and drafted up all the remaining pie pieces, made the applique pieces, and ironed them on. Wednesday I started embroidering.

I’ve got pictures here of the pie pieces and you will see after looking at the last one that I missed it a bit on the ears. The images are very plain at this point but I thought I would like to mark my progress with this project so I’m glad I have them in this state.  Applique work, the kind I do, typically looks pretty plain.  God/dess is in the details and that is true with embroidery, but applique in particular.

Lammas: Picture this goose looking more Canadian, with black and white markings, flying over waving wheat stems.  The wheat hasn’t been drawn in with my trusty water dissolving pen yet.  This goose is brown velveteen and very lush.

Litha: Imagine this frog with sucker fingers and toes and the cattails with long stems and spike leaves in bright spring green. And little pointy bits on top.  The frog is green wool and the cattails are brown velveteen.

Yule: I figured out the cardinal by removing the pine.  The colors are much richer, the silk velvet a gorgeous red for the bird and berries, the leaves a hunter velveteen and the branch brown velveteen. Beak and legs will be embroidered in.

Here is where the ears come in.

Imbolc: Lambs, really!, frolicking under may lilies because crocus made me crazy so I moved the may plant up a bit.  Think snowdrops if you have to.  But my lambs?  They literally look like wolves in sheep’s clothing.  gah!  The legs are bit weird but I figure this is folk art right?

This is what I had in mind and I see now that the ears are not slanted nearly enough.  The lambs are the only animals I didn’t get images of in advance.  Lesson learned.  So, will make new heads and ears tonight.

6 thoughts on “Wheel of Year in felt part 2”

  4. In the process of transferring my goose drawing to the wonder under stuff, I was able to lengthen the goose neck too. 😉
    Cutie!

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