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….
Just a quick note for anyone in the Kingston area: I’m having a Nuno Felted Vest Workshop and can accommodate a couple more participants. Wednesday August 8th 2012 10 – 4. $110 You will be provided with a predyed piece of prefelt along with silks, wools, roving and other embellishments. You will need to bring…
It’s been a busy Summer and I can’t believe we’re into September…however, a wonderful paddle with the group SUP Kingston on my paddle board this morning was just the height of Summer. It was so good to get out as I had spent last week indoors mostly at a workshop with Australian felter Pam de…
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…
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…
Studio on Tour Weekend. That’s another Kingston Art Tour weekend come and gone, lots of work – clearing out the studio of all my piles of paperwork, bills, bags of yarn and so on, tidying up and stashing boxes in the basement. Today I get to put all that stuff back! I had some great…
I can’t believe it’s been a week since my friend Sonja and I were in Peru, Indiana participating in Spring Fling machine knitting semimar put on my Charlene Shafer of the Knit Knack Shop there. We had quite an adventure! Starting out Thursday morning from Toronto where I stayed over with Sonja, we drove through…
You are staring to lose it, methinks…………
That is supposed to say STARTING