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Designed , hooked and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Rug hooking and needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving, hand dyed wool fabric , yarns and watercolors.

Framed

10″ x 10″

I saw a picture in a Swedish magazine of a neighborhood with yellow houses with shadows and the normal red house in the front, so I tried to make them up. I am quite happy with the result, it was fun to figure it out! Love the straight lines of the houses and the roofs, and I painted with watercolors the sky, just to make it more interesting!

Designed , hooked and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Rug hooking , needle felting and weaving

Hand dyed wool roving and hand dyed wool strips on linen and wool

Mounted on 4″x 4″ canvas , on wool and on a woven 4″ hoop

It was really fun to make different kinds of hearts, some hooked and the others felted . Valentines Day is very festive!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed and mounted on a 7″ hoop

9″ x 9″

Always liked sunsets! Of course it is at a beach, cannot avoid my like for them. It was so much fun to work with really bold colors. It is fun to work in round shapes, and then frame it. I like it!

Designed by Anne-Marie Herrera , hooked and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Rug hooking and needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving , hand dyed wool fabric, sari silk yarn and wool yarn on linen

Mounted on canvas fabric on a wood stretcher

14″ x 20″

This was a commission for a friend. She wanted a heart with flowers, so I made contact with my daughter Anne-Marie and she made this design perfect for what she wanted. It was so much fun to build up the heart with different materials. The leaves and the flowers were felted. The background has some insinuated butterflies. My son Miguel made the stretcher and covered with canvas, it came out good. A lot of work, but worthwhile! It was really three pairs of hands in it!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving of wool fabric

Framed

9″ x 11″

Another beach, another story. This beach just appeared by itself. It was fun to imagine the water coming down the stones, getting into the sea. Love to do felting, it feels like painting in watercolors!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

8″ x 10″

Another beach, a different one. Rough sea, islands. The sky is cloudy and it is windy!

Get on a boat if you want!

Designed and woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Tapestry

Wool yarn, silk yarn on a cotton warp

Mounted on a hoop

6″ diameter

It was a long time since I made wove in a hoop. It is fun, and sometimes unpredictable, depending on the materials you use. The colors were there in my bag after a commission I made recently. So there it is!

Designed and hooked by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Rug hooking

Hand dyed wool yarn, acrylic yarn on linen

Framed

10″ x 10″

Love to hook in circles, it is an interesting form. I imagined here a city, a big one, with all the lights on. No cars, no people on the streets. The pandemia is on!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

5″ x 7″

Another beach, another dream! I would so much like to be here with my family, as it is not possible

I imagine it! Love to felt beaches!

Designed and woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2020

Tapestry and needle felting

Hand dyed wool fabric, wool yarns, vegetal fiber and hand dyed wool roving

12″ x 18″

Mounted on a wood stick

This tapestry was woven specially for my granddaughter Zoe, who wanted a scene from Sweden. It was so nice to imagine a summer house the, they call it “pa landet”, it means in the house for vacation. By the lake of course, so you can fish and walk. As you can see it has the Swedish flag outside the house that is red, of course, and the birch trees are on the side.! I really enjoyed a lot making it!