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 […]
It’s a bit early to be talking about Christmas, I know, but with a festive-themed wet-felting workshop in the diary for October I’ve already been making samples and planning how it will all come together. So I thought I’d share what I’ve been up to. The idea for a Festive Felt Baubles workshop came about […]
I first thought I’d try making felted hoop art (literally, framing a small piece of decorative felt using an embroidery hoop) in early 2018. My big plan was to turn them into Christmas hanging decorations and give them out as Christmas cards. So this time last year I bought everything I needed, thinking I‘d be […]
Did you know you can ‘paint’ with wool fibres to create beautiful designs and artworks? This week talented Exmouth artist Anna FitzGerald and I helped guide a group of felters to create felt landscape lampshades, first designing painterly pieces of felt and then turning these into lampshades. ‘Painting’ with fibres is not dissimilar to working […]
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 […]