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 […]
Nuno felting is a way of felting wool fleece into fabric to create a new, bonded fabric. Amazingly, during the felting process wool fibres will not only grab each other to create felt, they’ll also grab whatever’s next to them. So if you lay an openweave or natural fabric like cotton muslin or silk onto […]
Had a fun afternoon demonstrating feltmaking at the Budleigh Salterton Food and Drink Festival at the weekend with Karen from Make at Monteray. As the wet-felting process takes a bit of time, I pre-prepared a felt bag using the ‘bag on a ball’ method. Here are some before, during and after photos. I started with […]
This Saturday 8 April from 1pm I’ll be at the Budleigh Food & Drink Festival demontrating feltmaking with Karen from Make at Monteray. This is the first time Karen or I have been involved at the festival, so not entirely sure what to expect, but if you’re interested in feltmaking or learning about the other […]