Felt Cuff / Bracelet - Lorikeet Green

Description

This felt cuff is made from pieces of hand rolled sushi felt in the Lorikeet colourway: green, yellow, red, black and grey. It was made for a special "green themed" store display at Craft Victoria.

The piece was inspired by the large groups of lorikeets that congregate and sing loudly in the gum tree in my neighbour's garden.

To make this piece, I first created hand rolled pieces of sushi felt, using the wet felting technique, and sewed them together. The piece is lined with a manufactured, felt sheet lining, to reinforce it. The cuff fastens with a black button.

This piece took 12 hours of labour to create, so you have a carefully and lovingly created item here!

The cuff measures approximately 23 cm /9 inches in length (undone) and is rougly 6.5 cms / 2 1/2 inches across at its widest point. Fastened, the cuff has a diameter of approximately 21 cm, or 8 inches around.

For reference, I am modelling the cuff, and my wrist measures 6 inches or 15 cm around at the smallest point. The button can be moved if you need to adjust the cuff.

Please note that there is some hand stitching around the perimeter of the lining (on the outside, around the portion where the button fastens I've done a simple, large running stitch) - this doesn't show up in the 4th photo as I took this picture before I added the stitching!

This one is definitely a statement piece - you will get noticed in this!

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Added on Nov 20, 2009