It’s really unusual to have snow this early in the year on the ridge opposite the front of my farmhouse. Sometimes, the larger peak Mount Leinster does have a dusting in mid November but normally we only have it on the whole range in the thick of winter (if at all) so I was delighted to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘silk’
The first snow of 2009 and a brilliant felt vessel!
Posted in Felt, Swaps, workshops, tagged batts, Clasheen, Felt, felt vessel, felt workshop, felt workshops, Felting, felting workshops, fiber, fibre, Icelandic, Icelandic batts, Icelandic wool, mulberry silk, resist, silk, surface decoration, texture, vessel, wet felt, wet felting, wool on November 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Happy Thanksgiving, completed pieces from last Saturday’s workshop, size of my new hearth rug
Posted in Felt, workshops, tagged chiffon, Clasheen, Felt, felt hearth rug, felt rug, felt wall hanging, felt workshop, felt workshops, Felting, hearth rug, silk, silk chiffon, Thanksgiving, wall hanging, wet felt, wet felting, workshop on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It is brilliant to have readers all around the world and really nice to discover whenever any of you have special days that you like to celebrate, to those of you Stateside I hope that you have a wonderful day.
I promised you pictures of the completed work from last Saturday’s workshop at Clasheen as [...]
Tactile felt hearth rug!
Posted in Felt, tagged batts, Felt, felt rug, felted rug, Felting, Fleece, hearth rug, Icelandic batts, Icelandic wool, Jacobs, Jacobs fleece, silk, silk hankies, silk tops, tactile, tencel, tencel tops, texture, wet felt, wet felting, wool batts on November 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I forgot to mention yesterday that I did weigh the Icelandic wool and divided it into two piles. There was just over 400g per layer and interestingly enough not much shrinkage overall by the time the rug was complete, possibly even less than 20%.
I should also have said that I used green silk hankies both [...]
Unblocked felt hat, an experiment with colour, style and texture
Posted in Etsy, Felt, tagged design, Fabric, Felt, felt hat, Felting, hat, hat block, Icelandic wool, Irene Lundgaard, Pick up your needles, resist, silk, silk and cotton fabric, silk twists, wet felt, wet felting, wool on November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I loved the two felt hats that I made recently with Icelandic wool but I really wanted to wear them myself and unfortunately my head is just too small for hats shaped on my hat block! At the brilliant ’Pick up your Needles’ workshop on Saturday Irene had a simple but fun crochet hat that I thought could translate very [...]
Some simple felt accessories fit for a ball (well maybe an informal Golf Club dance!)
Posted in Felt, nuno felt, tagged bag, clutch, Felt, felt bag, felt brooch, felt clutch, Felting, fiber, fibre, merino, Nuno, nuno felt, nuno felt brooch, nuno felting, pongee, purse, short fibred merino, silk, wet felt, wet felting on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow evening I have to show my face at the Golf Club Captain’s Dinner. Being on a budget I was wracking my brain deciding what to wear (it is informal this year which is unusual) when to my absolute delight I found my ‘lost’ black velvet trousers! I managed to pick up an inexpensive plain turquoise [...]
Another felt hat, answers to questions
Posted in Etsy, Felt, tagged Clasheen, Etsy, Felt, felt hat, Felting, felting hats, Icelandic wool, raspberry ripple, silk, silk chiffon, silk hankies, tactile, texture on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I had great fun yesterday finishing the raspberry ripple felt hat and then was inspired to adjust the template slightly and make another, this time with a fresh green and white colour scheme. I also wanted to try incorporating silk chiffon and silk hankies into the Icelandic wool to see how they would felt together, I was very [...]
Silk laps again and still tidying!
Posted in Felt, Swaps, workshops, tagged Clasheen, Felt, Felting, ICA, silk, silk laps, wet felt, wet felting, wool, workshop on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In response to some of your comments re. the silk laps I also find that they can ‘catch’ your skin as you are laying them out but definitely not as much as silk hankies do. What I like to do if my hands are dry is to rub them in olive oil about ten [...]
Creating nuno felt incorporating cotton gauze and beautiful silk laps
Posted in Felt, nuno felt, tagged cotton gaue, gauze, merino, Nuno, nuno felt, nuno felt wrap, nuno wrap, silk, silk hankies, silk laps on November 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As mentioned previously, I was furious with myself for not buying any hand dyed silk laps at the Knit and Stitch Show in Dublin last year. Basically they are like a really huge silk hankie and perfect for adding vibrant colour and texture to any felt project but especially felt wearables.
This year I didn’t make [...]
Yummy yak!
Posted in Felt, tagged Felt, Felting, silk, merino, scarf, drum carder, carder, felt scarf, yak, hand carded, carded on October 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Tha yak was absolutely yummy to felt with! If I remember Blas correctly it was an 80% yak 20% merino mixture but I am going to check this out again. Although the fibre is quite a bit more expensive than merino it is worth every penny and I definitely will be ordering some more for myself [...]
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