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….
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…
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…
It’s been a busy August with a wet felting workshop and a birthday trip to Vermont (my birthday trip from my husband). We stayed in a lovely old Victorian B&B in Shelburne VT just down the road from the Shelburne Museum which is more like our Upper Canada Village or Black Creek Pioneer Village 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…
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.
You are staring to lose it, methinks…………
That is supposed to say STARTING