Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Needle felting
Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric
Framed
8″ x 8″
Of course another seashore! They are popular and I love to make them. I spend my first 13 years going to the beach every weekend! Good memories!
Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Needle felting
Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric
Framed
8″ x 8″
My second cat this year! The first one was sold at the Show and Sell of the Handweavers of Bucks County, so I was commissioned to make another one but looking at the garden. It is fun to have the tail outside the frame of the window.
We have our Annual Show and Sale at the Handweavers of Bucks County on 22-24 of November, 2024
The second picture is part of my pieces that I am bringing to the Sell. Hope to see you there!
Hand painting by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Gouaches , gold paint and sparkling pigments on gouache
Golden frame
9″ x 11″
I never painted a Nativity in gouaches, just a needle felted one. It was interesting because the gouache is a very mate paint, but mixing it with the color pigments it shines! I used gold paint as well. It was a good experience.
Designed and hooked by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Rug hooking
Hand dyed wool fabric strips, wool yarn and hand dyed wool roving on linen fabric
Mounted on a canvas
6″
It was the idea to hook a fish, but then it decided to be on the side with waves around, because he was fished! I put a hook in his mouth with some beads,just for the fun of it!
Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Needle felting
Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric
Mounted on 4″ round bamboo hoop
It is almost Christmas, and I always make some small Tomtar (Santas in Swedish) for the occasion. It is fun to play with the beards, and specially with the eyes! Hope that you like them. I made them for the Show and Sell of the Hand weavers of Bucks County this year.
Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Needle felting
Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric
Framed
9″ x 9″
This mountain is my favorite view in Caracas. It really gives me a feeling of longing and belonging. It is the symbol of our city. It is there all royal and proud! I grew up with this view. It was wonderful to recreate it .
Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Needle felting
Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric
Framed
9″ x 9″
A friend of mine gave me some pictures of a sunset she had seen, and I could not let it pass and made this felted piece, which I really like. It is all about choosing (and having) the right colors in your stash. It was fun to play with the wool.
Designed and punched by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Punch needle
Hand dyed cotton threads on a linen fabric
Framed
9″ x 9″
Working with a punch needle is fun, especially because you have to work on the “wrong” side, so really you don’t know how it will be until you turn it up. I think it came out quite good, a little different!
Designed and woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Tapestry
Hand dyed wool , in different shades and polyester yarn as a weft on a blue yarn as warp
Mounted on a bamboo stick with linen yarn as a hanging
13″ x 23″
It was fun to weave this tapestry, because I had a specific a pallette of colors. I just worked without really thinking how it was going to be (as usual) . The result is good, I like it! Using different materials is fun.
I chose the name that sounded nice in the Zulu language, from South Africa, that means “I am here to be seen”. I think it is appropriate!
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