I am planning an all-day felting workshop on the 26th November 2011, locally at the Parish Room in Shipley, near Heanor Derbyshire. The day will have an seasonal advent theme - making Christmas stockings using the resist method of wet felting, or a wall hanging that may include a secret pocket or two for the run up to Christmas (advent calender style), or not, if a wall hanging or a piece of felt to use for a later project is all you require.
The cost of the day is £15 which includes all materials neccessary - lunch will be in the form of a bring and share table- please bring along one plate full of either sweet or savoury to share.
Please e-mail me to reserve yourself a place.
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Nuno Day at the Parish Room
Yesterday, I held a Nuno Felting Workshop locally here in Shipley where we made some beautiful scarves...boy was it hard work and there was even ....a bit of a failure...but on the whole it was SO worth the blood, sweat and tears!!
Starting with a six foot long or more pice of cotton open weave muslin or a silk chiffon, we first created and played with colour and texture and density...and then for at least an hour we rolled, rubbed, soaked, more rubbing and rolling, threw and rubbed some more...until the most beautiful scarves started to shape up, felt up...and we all cheered!!
There is something very euphoric about creating something really beautiful..your own design..your own energy.
The cotton gauzy muslin produced lovely results somewhat easier than the silk chiffon. Two people chose the silk. It took an age to felt and one piece especially appeared to reject all fibres - so much so that afer a long time we called it a day as every fibre looked like it was coming away. The other took what seemed like hours.. and hours and in the end 3 people at once were rubbing and willing and praying for these fibres to work their magic...and eventually a combination of many hands, brute force, hard work and determination payed off and a beautiful nuno silk scarf was born. PHEW!!!!
I don't unfortunately have a picture of the completed silk scarf but I will try and get one of it in its finished state and preferably modelled!! (If you are reading this Patricia....any chance??!!)
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| BEFORE!! look at the little pile of ingredients!! |
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| A close up of the muslins and the stripey silk chiffon |
Starting with a six foot long or more pice of cotton open weave muslin or a silk chiffon, we first created and played with colour and texture and density...and then for at least an hour we rolled, rubbed, soaked, more rubbing and rolling, threw and rubbed some more...until the most beautiful scarves started to shape up, felt up...and we all cheered!!
There is something very euphoric about creating something really beautiful..your own design..your own energy.
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| Check out the shrinkage on this one! the green line represents the original cloth size! |
The cotton gauzy muslin produced lovely results somewhat easier than the silk chiffon. Two people chose the silk. It took an age to felt and one piece especially appeared to reject all fibres - so much so that afer a long time we called it a day as every fibre looked like it was coming away. The other took what seemed like hours.. and hours and in the end 3 people at once were rubbing and willing and praying for these fibres to work their magic...and eventually a combination of many hands, brute force, hard work and determination payed off and a beautiful nuno silk scarf was born. PHEW!!!!
I don't unfortunately have a picture of the completed silk scarf but I will try and get one of it in its finished state and preferably modelled!! (If you are reading this Patricia....any chance??!!)
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