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 […]
Just in time to keep your Easter eggs warm, here are 3 hen egg cosies (in blue, white and red, so French hens, of course!) which I designed and made for a magazine project article for ‘Sew Quick and Simple’ published this January by MyTimeMedia. The aim was to use inexpensive and easy-to-find materials, so […]