One Saturday in February an event was named ‘FebFelt’ and seven women got together to create…..a felted vest. On the suggestion of the women of the board of Kingston Arts Council, our valiant pres Joan Heaton in particular, at a slightly boozy brunch I got caught up in the tide and learned a lot more in…
Better colour. My first effort towards an actual jacket shape using prefelt with silk and rovings. In my last post I had a photo of my first (ever!) dying, it was supposed to be red…but came out an icky pink so I dyed it with blue and finally got something I could live with and…
For a change, instead of teaching a workshop I took one! Yeah. After weeks of shows and getting a lot of work ready, photographing and listing things on Etsy and such I took a day for myself to learn more about Nuno felting which is something I’ve wanted to do for ages. I had found…
KAC Juried Arts Salon submission. Well, it’s that time again. One of a Kind show and Originals coming up. I think I have had the loooong Winter to get lots of stuff done, new experimenting with different machines, textiles, shapes yada, yada, yada! No such luck!!! Here I am on the bring of another show/workshops…
Felted collar in situ. It’s been a very busy month since the build up to the One of a Kind Show, it was nice to be back in Toronto for the Christmas edition for the first time in more than a decade. I had been doing the Ottawa Ottawa Originals in past Decembers until the…
Well after an evening of felting then a day or claying I’m worn out and still two days to go until the show. This is a detail of the back of the collar I made, this is the centre back that you’d see if you were standing behind the wearer. Here is the set laid…
I’ve been having fun with my gant money, it’s enabled me to take classes, buy materials and do things I didn’t think I would be able to do for a long time. Spending a day with Andrea Graham in he studio felting was wonderful and really opened a brand new door for me creatively. Here…