Suzanne’s felt rug is finished, here are some pictures and a brief explaination!

I’ve just don’t have enough time in the day to write a detailed post about how I felted my sister Suzanne’s rug but hopefully these pictures will give you an idea of what the finished rug is like, I LOVE the fact that it is reversible! I did upload more pics of the work in [...]

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Slightly sidetracked by felt rug!

Today I will be finishing laying out and felting a hearth rug for a belated Christmas cum birthday present for my sister Suzanne. I need to get this finished and off my two large tables by tonight at the latest leaving me free to finally finish tidying the studio on Tuesday. I’m teaching a private [...]

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Look at the faces of these first time felters!!!

One of the blogs that I enjoy following is Becky Utecht’s ‘River Oak Farm & Studio‘, I hope Becky and her son don’t mind me sharing this video of her community felting experience at the Sticks and Stones Art and Cultural Festival last September.  Participants made prefelt which Becky then used in a the creation of [...]

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The rug is in position at last!

This morning I drove to Dublin to deliver Sylvia’s rug with the big hope that a. it would be the right size and b. Sylvia would be happy with the finished design and colour!   If you remember, the colours were chosen to compliment the woven hearth rug that was already in place in front of the fire and the [...]

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Still shaving …….

I am still shaving Sylvia’s rug in preparation for delivery on Monday, this time the wool fibres coming through the cotton on the back.  At one stage I thought that I wouldn’t remove these ‘hairs’ but eventually decided that because the rug will be lying on a carpet base probably with time the fibres would pill [...]

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Cut finger and shaving the rug

Not many words today either, I almost cut the top off my right index finger earlier this morning so typing difficult and I still don’t like to think of all the blood ….. Shaving of the rug proceeds very slowly, then it is a question of some final ironing, steaming, stretching and hopefully admiring!

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Almost finished fulling the rug …….

Pictures speaking louder than words again, hope to finish the fulling process later this afternoon!  Please excuse the poor quality of the photos taken inside but I did want to share the various stages of this project and it has proved difficult to get clear pictures depending on what time of day the images were taken.  

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Almost there fulling the rug!

At last I feel as if I am starting to get somewhere fulling Sylvia’s large felt rug.  Measurements as of this afternoon are 1.67m X 2.67m so 17cm width ways and 17cm lengthways and finally the rug will be the required size!!!  No time to write any more but picturers to follow tomorrow morning and answers to some [...]

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More pictures of my felt rug in progress

Pictures speaking louder than words today ……………..    A LOT more rolling to be done before the rug has shrunk by the desired 30%!

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Large felt rug, an excercise in logistics

The large felt rug that I am in the process of making is an interesting if challenging excercise in logistics!  From the samples that I did I worked out that my initial layout would need to be over 3m by over 2m and eventually decided to stitch two long lengths of rug base together (prepared in master Turkish rug maker Mehmet [...]

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