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….
After a weekend away doing the Craft Ontario Craft show in Toronto, it’s good to be back in the studio….though even that seemed to be full of people for a while (but nice). The Machine Knitting Club of Kingston met in my studio for the first time on Tuesday (we meet the second Tuesday of…
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….
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…
Last Wednesday I packed up the car with pool noodles, my box of felting stuff ( roving of a miriad colours, fancy yarns, scissors, coloured felt bits, etc) and some old towels and a mop and headed out the Odessa Fairgrounds…..for our Felted Vest Workshop. The Room I had dyed four pieces of prefelt different…
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…
You are staring to lose it, methinks…………
That is supposed to say STARTING