Many thanks to Nancy in San Francisco who suggested using either dissolvable interfacing or cellulose paste as a stiffener for felt. It is great to be able to pose a question on this blog and get an answer almost immediately from the other side of the world!
Speaking of the other side of the world, would anyone be [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Stiffening felt and exchanging handmade items.
Posted in Felt, Swaps, tagged Bag Lady Swaps, Breaking Out, cords, curator, exhibition, Felt, Felting, festive, forum, handmade, images, pledge, San Francisco, swap, tails on August 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Spiky wet felted neck piece!
Posted in Felt, tagged cord, cords, Fabric, Felt, Felting, merino, neck piece, necklace, scarf, shaping felt, spiky, stiffener, wet felt, wet felted on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am just about to set in to 2 full days felting, heaven for me!! Before I start I just wanted to share this image of a new design that I am playing with, basically a cross between a necklace and a scarf that I am calling a neck piece. Today I will be expanding [...]
Waterlily felt for Bag Lady Swaps
Posted in Felt, Swaps, tagged bag, Bag Lady Swap, collage, Felt, Felting, fish, fish skin, images, keyring, merino, parcel, prefelt, swap, wool on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This collage of images is a taster for Sylvia, my swap buddy from Bag Lady Swaps to show some of the raw materials and the colour scheme that I used to create the felt for the bag I made her. If you look closely at the various images you can see pale pink and blue [...]
Fun afternoon Felting!
Posted in Felt, tagged beach, Bernie McCoy, blog, Carmen, driftwood, Enniscrone, Felt, Felting, horn, Irish Green Gathering, necklace, pictures, seaweed, shells, stones, work on August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have just finished a fun afternoon felting and chatting with Carmen! I needed to complete some pieces to show the curator how I am progressing towards my work for ’Breaking Out’, an exhibition with the Crafts Council and really had to get stuck into things this weekend. Because of being totally tied up with the organisation of [...]
Felt making at the Irish Green Gathering
Posted in Felt, tagged Carmen, classes, Felt, Felting, felting classes, fibre, Grennan Craft Mill, Irish Green Gathering, Joan Casey, Mary Scott, merino, Nicola Henley, silk, Studio, Wollknoll, wool, workshops on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A big thank you to Joan Casey, Mary Scott and Nicola Henley, the inspiring felt makers who helped make last weekends Irish Green Gathering such a big success. We had a great long weekend and for once the weather Gods seemed to smile on us for most of the time. Joan demonstrated felt making in the walled garden [...]
Nuno Felt
Posted in Felt, tagged bag, beads, embellishment, essential textile art, Felt, Felting, Flickr, highlight, Irish Green Gathering, loom, loom ends, merino, Nuno, sari, sewing, silk on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is very interesting keeping tabs on the different searches people do to get to this blog and something that comes up time and time again is nuno felting. Obviously there is great interest in this technique so I am just going to post a picture of a piece I made recently for everyone to [...]
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