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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]