It is amazing how many ways there are to felt a ball. Today I needed to make a couple of felt balls and although they are always trotted out as a beginners project for me they are far from it! I always seem to have difficulty starting them off without getting creases but no more, Australian [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Anita Larkin’
Felting techniques and swap update
Posted in Felt, Swaps, tagged Anita Larkin, Australia, Autumn, ball, bamboo, blind, buddies, buy handmade, Christmas, deadline, dry felting, essential textile art, Etsy, Felt, Felting, felting course, fibre, merino, olive oil soap, presents, sewing, supplies, swap, SwapDex, theme, Wollknoll on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Making cords the Australian way!
Posted in Felt, tagged 3 dimensional, 3d, Add new tag, Anita Larkin, bubbke wrap, cord, cords, dry felt, Felt, Felting, fibres, inserting wire, sculptural, sculptural felt, sculpture, techniques, workshop on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Before I discuss the new way that we learnt of making cords at the Anita Larkin workshop, I just want to say that all the techniques we tried over the weekend ultimately unite and allow you to create exciting scupltural 3 dimensional pieces of felt! At first it seems that learning how to make cords is very [...]
Using a wire brush while felting! Silk paper workshop.
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, Castlecomer, cords, Demense Yard, dyes, experimental, fellting, Felt, fibre, inclusions, inspiring, Kozo, Kozo Gallery, paper, prefelt, resist, sculptural, silk, silk paper, South East Textile Group, suede, Thomastown, Tunde Toth, wire brush, workshop on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An amazing tip learnt during the Anita Larkin workshop concerns the use of a wire brush! People had brought different sized brushes to try, but for fairly small pieces of work a suede shoe brush seemed perfect. We used these when repairing a seam or depression caused by uneven rolling, attaching an object or closing the hole [...]
Australian versus European wet felting techniques
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, Australian, ball, bamboo blind, European, Felt, Felting, fibre, fibres, merino, sculptural felt, techniquew, wet, wet felting, wire brush, wool, workshop on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks very much to all of you who are sending me emails and posting such nice comments on my blog, it is really nice to get feedback from my peers so please keep it up!
As promised I am going to write several posts over the next week or so about the various different aspects of sculptural [...]
Felting update
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, balls, cords, Felt, Felting, Feltmakers Ireland, Irish Green Gathering, pockets, resists, sculpture, workshop on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have just returned from an inspiring weekend workshop (organised by Feltmakers Ireland) with Australian sculptor and feltmaker Anita Larkin. We were learning several different techniques, making balls, making cords, covering an item and creating pieces with multiple layers (via multiple resists). If this sounds like work that you may already have done WAIT UNTIL [...]
Scrim ready to nuno felt
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, Australian, bags, batik, dye, Fabric, Felt, Felting, Feltmakers Federation, Grennan Craft Mill, Nuno, scrim, sculptural, vessel, vessels on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am really looking forward to experimenting with the scrim that I batiked (is that a word?!) last week during the course that I participated in at the Grennan Craft Mill, Thomastown. The fabric took the dyes brilliantly and I intend to make a couple of vessels or bags tomorrow when Polly and Carmen call over for [...]
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