Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’, on my Bike!!!!
A bit more to the story of my felting I rigged up a ‘rolling machine’ using bike power…here’s the first video taken by my friend Patti on my iPhone….
There are many health concerns that go along with doing what we artists and artisans do on a daily basis. We have to contend with repetitive stress on various joints in our hands, elbows and arms, maybe even legs (I do alternately roll my felting with my feet). Anyone who sits for hours at a…
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…
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…
Working towards this fun and well attended event. It’s half way to the One of a Kind Show in Toronto so it will get me in show mood! Here’s a new little felted hat… …now back to some knitting.
Well, it’s been a busy few weeks since I returned from PEI. There was a workshop at Frontenac Secondary School that was very interesting as I have not worked solely with teenagers before and it was a unique experience! From deciphering teen talk & slang to figuring out what each individual was really interested in….
You are staring to lose it, methinks…………
That is supposed to say STARTING