The darker side of Felt

The darker side of felt is on at the Bilston craft gallery

 well worth a visit to see some great felting by international felt artists,the gallery is interesting too and staffed by some great people.The animal hats are made by Barbara Keal.

Thomas Horst is the maker of these theatrical gowns in vibrant colours.

Table runner and felted sculpture

I carried this heavy piece of driftwood  for ages back from the banks of the river Severn you can find some great pieces down thereI then felted 3 stones on the top and this ball and spikes below.

I made this table runner from a uTube video from Misourri quilts they are a great source of ideas for quilting,the object was too use up all your odd 2 1/2 inch strips great I thought I had plenty but when I got them out they were all different widths mostly too small.So I cut up  a piece of fabric I had dyed using the Kemshall method which gives you this fantastic colour range I am well pleased with it and even my husband approves

workshop with Jenny Pepper part one

A great workshop with Jenny Pepper making pods based on sea hares also called nudibanks I have seen these in Australia and they are beautiful colours and flowing lines.Below is some of Jenny,s work

Jenny Rayment

A weekend with Jenny Rayment,great fun productive and absolutely exhausting,we spent the weekend twiddling tweaking and manipulating calico attempting to produce something along the lines of this one.

 This was mine sewn together and before it was tweaked

Various ones of Jennys

This one we did in the afternoon.

One student did hers with colour

 My finished first piece made into a cushion cover.Jenny also gave a talk dressed in high heels and fishnets,she was hilarious whilst showing us her quilts

A bag which you can turn into a hat!

And she finishes dressed like this

 This is the Sudoko quilt and we did a nine patch piece on Sunday more tweaking and twiddling so I came home with 3 good sized pieces one finished and two nearly,would I ever remember how to do any more, I am too tired to think about it now.

felted scarves

 Do you remember the wool that I dyed with walnut husks and onion skins?

 well I made of it into this scarf and then I nuno felted the blue one they have now been sold and have gone to Australia and France very pleasing