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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]