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Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving and wool yarn on felted wool roving

Framed

9″ x 9″

This little rooster was a commission from a friend, she wanted him to be multicolor, so I did it. It was fun adding different threads and wool yarn to the tail. He is a happy one! I hope that she likes it!

Designed , felted and hooked by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Mix media: rug hooking and needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric, and wool strips, wool yarn on linen

Framed

14″ x 14″

This is a mix media piece. I started making 4″x4″ squares, some felted and some hooked, putting them on thick 4″x4″canvas, suddenly inspiration came and I put the together, I like the effect. It is like when you see in a kaleidoscope, colors in different shapes. My son Miguel made the frame, so now it is a piece to enter maybe in an exhibition, who knows. I enjoyed a lot working with the different textures.

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

4″ x 6″

The sea, the shore, always in my work, I really miss the sea! This came out like an unruly ocean, the water is of different tones, the wind blows…. I never know where they are going. Loved to make it!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

3″ x 3″

One afternoon the sunset was so beautiful in the woods in our home, that I went directly to my studio and reproduced it. I think it is very accurate, but we cannot do better that nature! I found a cool metal frame, so that was it!

Designed and woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Tapestry, weaving

Hand dyed wool roving , wool yarn on a cotton warp

Mounted on a round 5″ hoop

This piece says that spring is finally here! It was fun to keep adding different materials to complete a bunch of flowers.

Just playing around with round objects. Fun!

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Needle felting and watercolor painting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric and painted background with watercolors

framed

5″ x 7″

This little piece is a remembrance of a summer house , sommar stuga, by the lake somewhere in Sweden, where people spend the whole summer just enjoying the weather and maybe sailing or swimming. It was so much fun to paint with watercolors the background, it makes it special!

Designed and woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2021

Tapestry

Wool yarn on cotton warp

8″ x 16″

Mounted on a stick

When I started weaving it I had no fixed idea of any design, only I had a bunch of yarn in different beautiful colors. So I started without any idea, and when it was finished, I realised that it looked like a small town, in the middle of nowhere, with small houses and streets in the middle. It is like a miracle in a way! That is why it is called Pueblo! It was so much fun to move my hands weaving, it is like a meditation.

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!