Showing posts with label felting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label felting. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Star for a memorystick
Felted star I had to make for my memorystick after I had forgotten it in university several times...
Felted decorational stars
These are felted stars hanging inside a door
Material for the felted pieces I have bought from a felt boot factory in Finland, while the yarn I have spun myself with wool from a friend's sheep in Shetland
Material for the felted pieces I have bought from a felt boot factory in Finland, while the yarn I have spun myself with wool from a friend's sheep in Shetland
Fair Isle 2008 - basket making and felt for a dinner party
Back in Fair Isle 2008 I was lucky enough to be able to participate to another craft workshop - this one was a basket making workshop at Kathy Coull's organised by an American visitor staying with her.
Katherine had visited Fair Isle several times before and done knitting and spinning there, so this time she wanted to give something back and organised a basket workshop.
I've never made baskets before but it turned out to be very easy and the resulting baskets were lovely, as you can see below
[picture will be added soon... as I forgot these photos are on another computer...]
My partner and I stayed in the 'Puffinn', a hut where the workcampers stay when they are on Fair Isle, and decided to organise a dinner party for couple of the families who have been friendly enough to host us before.
While the Puffinn is well equipped for 20 people to eat there, there was not enough glasses - so we decided to use mugs instead, with a small felted piece in each to help everyone use their own for the whole night (and creating less dishes!). Selections varied from the classical such as stars, moons, flowers, hearts and apples to a bit more exotic ones - pineapple, handbag, teapot and my pride a joy - a Fair Isle sweater! (or close enough to one anyway...)
[here too pictures will be added soon...]
Katherine had visited Fair Isle several times before and done knitting and spinning there, so this time she wanted to give something back and organised a basket workshop.
I've never made baskets before but it turned out to be very easy and the resulting baskets were lovely, as you can see below
[picture will be added soon... as I forgot these photos are on another computer...]
My partner and I stayed in the 'Puffinn', a hut where the workcampers stay when they are on Fair Isle, and decided to organise a dinner party for couple of the families who have been friendly enough to host us before.
While the Puffinn is well equipped for 20 people to eat there, there was not enough glasses - so we decided to use mugs instead, with a small felted piece in each to help everyone use their own for the whole night (and creating less dishes!). Selections varied from the classical such as stars, moons, flowers, hearts and apples to a bit more exotic ones - pineapple, handbag, teapot and my pride a joy - a Fair Isle sweater! (or close enough to one anyway...)
[here too pictures will be added soon...]
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Cushion cover & felted card
A birthday "card" combining felting and knitting, a present to a family member in 2007
Stiched cushion case of old canvases (pieces from a canvas my sister brought from India in 1980s, an old bag and an old bed cover)
Both done in 2007
Stiched cushion case of old canvases (pieces from a canvas my sister brought from India in 1980s, an old bag and an old bed cover)
Both done in 2007
Fair Isle 2005 - spinning and felting
I stayed on Fair Isle in Shetland during 2005 for couple of months and learned (new) crafts there
An island (crofts and) craftsman thaught me how to spin during my first visit to Fair Isle in 2004 and after that during my visits to Fair Isle I have continued to practice this skill under his gentle guidance.
(I have since then bought a wheel he has made)
Also during my stay in 2005 fibre artist Jeannette Sendled held a felting workshop, teaching us different ways to make wet felt
From a very fine wool we made fine scarfs - on the left my orange and lilac one drying
We also made braclets which were felted by washing them in the washing machine
An island (crofts and) craftsman thaught me how to spin during my first visit to Fair Isle in 2004 and after that during my visits to Fair Isle I have continued to practice this skill under his gentle guidance.
(I have since then bought a wheel he has made)
Also during my stay in 2005 fibre artist Jeannette Sendled held a felting workshop, teaching us different ways to make wet felt
From a very fine wool we made fine scarfs - on the left my orange and lilac one drying
We also made braclets which were felted by washing them in the washing machine
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