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Designed , hooked and felted by Gin-Marie Nalsen 2021

Rug hooking and needle felting

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

Framed

7″ x 15″

The touareg are a nomadic pastoralist tribe that means ” free people{. They live in in the central Sahara region.

I started to work with the wool roving, and suddenly, the Touareg appeared, After that I decided to hook the

dunes of the desert where they live. It was a very interesting experience to try to make the sand dynes. I

enjoyed it throughly!!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 101`

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

4″ x 7″

I made this crystal vase with flowers to my friend Ludmila, on her birthday. Flowers are a nice

a nice present to greet a person, specially when you make them up! Love it!

Designed and woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Tapestry

Hand dyed wool yarn, hand dyed sari silk yarn and hand dyed wool roving on a cotton warp

Mounted on an vintage stick

10″ x 13″

When I start to weave in my small tapestry loom, I don’t know what is going to happen. I choose the colors I want to use and go. My hands are the ones that move the wool. The red strip of wool roving gives it more character. I like the result. It is a bit square, but it came out like that! I am happy with it.

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

4.5″ x 5.5″

I found this little frame and immediately saw it as a window. Started to make the beach and voila!

You can almost smell the air, and feel the breeze! So much fun to play with colors!

Designed , hooked and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Rug hooking and needle felting

Hand dyed wool strips, hand dyed wool yarn ,sari silk yarn and hand dyed wool roving

Mounted on a canvas

10″ x 10″

The idea of making a multicolored turtle came when Teresa Nieberding asked me to make an animal for her show “ON THE WILD SIDE”, that is going to be in September, 2021, in Cincinnati, OH. It was so much fun to design it and think in colors. I hope that she likes it!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

4″ x 6″

Always going back to the sea! I wish I could be on that sailboat!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Mounted on a 4″ hoop and painted the bottom with acrylics

Framed

6″ x 6″

The tulips that my Mom loved, even that they did not grow in the tropics where I grew up. Always was a way of getting them!

Designed and woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Tapestry

Wool yarn, hand dyed wool roving, silk yarn on a cotton warp

Framed

6″ x 6″

It was so much fun to weave these flowers in my little Hockett loom, it took time! But I like the results!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

6″ x 6″

Doing what I love to do, felting a sea scene. I really miss the smell and the air at the shore!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Mounted on a 4″ hoop

Framed

6″ x 6″

Felting the moon is very rewarding, it can never go wrong!