Wool Felting Recipe: Creating Orange Crush Nuno Scarf

I think a lot about felting and cooking, because they are alike in a great many ways. Let's say, I am going to make a salad.I start off with a basic recipe, and then along the way, some other ingredient catches my fancy and I decide to add it to the mix. When I make a scarf I go through the same thought process. Will the scarf, be solid wool felt, nuno felt or a combination of the two. In making the scarf below, I wanted something warm, but light, Nuno felt  (laminate felt) was the solution. A nuno scarf always starts with wool and a lightweight, transparent fabric ( I prefer silk). How I combine the two, how much wool I use, will I use other inclusions, will I place the design on both sides, how much I agitate.... these can all be impromptu, or well planned decisions, depending on my mood. It is just like making a salad. I mentioned making salad, because yesterday I went to a dinner party at my good friends' and studio mates' home, Lisa Houck.  She is a wonderful artist and a fabulous cook. My contribution to the meal of wheat berry soup, artichokes and salmon steaks was a humble salad. A winter salad came to mind, something with hearty greens and beets.  I love beets, especially their incredible purple, with ruby undertones color. The color reminds me of one of my new wools in my B.Felt boutique, an exquisite,violet, merino wool roving. Well, I digress, as in the making of my Orange Crush scarf, my salad started with two ingredients, hearty greens -a combination of spinach and arugula-and oven roasted beets. To this, I added shaved fennel, toasted walnuts, lemon flavored goat cheese, parsley, scallions and tossed with a pomegranate vinaigrette dressing, resulting in a delicious and well composed salad and like my scarf equally as beautiful.