I’m very excited to share something I’ve been keeping under wraps for a few months, but can now shout (well, more like squeal really!) about, which is that a fab article has just appeared on my feltmaking workshops in the November issue of Coast Magazine! If you look back at my other posts this year, […]
I’ve spent a fair bit of the last week doing some embarrassingly long-overdue amendments to my website (nothing too clever, just updating photos and creating a page for workshops now that I’m running these from my studio). As part of my wandering about the internet I happened upon my old stand-alone blog on Blogspot. I […]
I thought I’d share my recent efforts to bring my felt bags to life by photographing them in the locations which inspired them, in this case Dartmoor National Park in Devon. You might wonder whether it’s worth going to so much trouble. Well, over the last couple of months I’ve been putting in a real […]
People often wonder how you can make seamless, hollow 3D forms in felt, such as bags and bowls, with no sewing or other trickery. This is primarily down to the amazing properties of wool fleece, which means that all fibres laid next to each other will bond together during felting. But in order to create […]
I’ve recently been experimenting with an even bigger ball to use as a resist and shape for making felted bags: her name’s Big Bertha. You can see from the photo (she’s the purple one) that she’s considerably bigger than my usual pink felting ball, reaching a circumference of 40″ (and possibly bigger, though I was […]
As if making felt bags weren’t enough, I’ve also recently designed and made 3 different sewn fabric bags for a new bookazine for MyTimeMedia called ‘Beautiful Bags’. There’s a nautical cross-body bag and a large beach bag, but my favourite is the floral clutch bag, using a lovely piece of fabric I rooted out from […]