I had never heard of solvy until the other day, and the discovery really excited me. For those of you who don't know, solvy is water soluable plastic that has an appearance similar to fusing. As I have talked about earlier in my blog, I have made these felted dreadlock in the washing machine with unspun yarn, and I have wanted to use them in some cool way but have not know how until now. So with the solvy I sandwiched my felted dreadlocks between two layers in a planned but random looking pattern. Then using a zig zag stitch I secured all the dreadlocks making sure I caught them all with the machine. Then it was as easy as running my sample under water and away dissolved my solvy, leaving me with crazy lattice pattern. I think that this technique looks very effective, and is a new take on felting which contrasts to the wet felting which I am also pursuing. I would like to take this solvy/felting concept further and incorporate it into my garments, as I think it will compliment the simplicity and softness of the wet felting in my garments. I had been feeling last week that my work was lacking somthing and I was needing another element to build upon my wet felting, I think that this has opened up a whole new area for me.
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