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Greenerlife

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Leafy Surrey
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2014, 06:31:02 pm »
Another day - another craft learned!  Went to a felt hat-making day today, and my hat is now drying on its form (ie a bowl!   ;D  It was formed on a proper "head")


It turned out so nice, I am now contemplating making a dress to match it! (Not out of felt though!  ;D )

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2014, 08:09:01 pm »
Can we see a piccie?
I am doing a nuno felting course on 20th July. I can't wait  ;D
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

ladyK

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Conwy Valley
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2014, 08:40:19 pm »
Would felting be a good idea to use short staple Soay fleece for? (as it seems to be a difficult one for spinning/weaving (if I got that right from a different thread).
"If one way is better than another, it is the way of nature." (Aristotle)

Greenerlife

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Leafy Surrey
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #18 on: June 28, 2014, 11:07:01 pm »


Can we see a piccie?I am doing a nuno felting course on 20th July. I can't wait  ;D

All my piccies seem to be too big to post - sorry!  It's not glamorous, but I am insanely pleased with the result of my hat - now see what you have done - I have to look up nuno felting now....

Greenerlife

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Leafy Surrey
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2014, 08:07:37 pm »
Let's see if this works...


Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2014, 10:49:03 pm »
That's pretty. Like the colours.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2014, 11:16:14 pm »
Brilliant!  Now modelled... ;)  ?
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2014, 07:32:56 am »
Love it  :thumbsup:
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2014, 09:18:59 am »
Beautiful ...... it would go with my new shirt!  :trophy:

Lady K - I went to the Minerva Centre at Llanidloes at the weekend and chatted to a lady who was wet felting. She was working with Merino but showed me some samples of wet felting with native fleece. She hadn't tried Soay but thought that it would wet felt. She suggested experimenting with the Soay fleece on its own but also combining it with other native fleece if need be.

I haven't had a go at wet felting at all yet but Soay can be needle felted with some success. Fleecewife talked me through the prep. of the fleece in a thread on here not long ago if you are interested. Thank you FW.  :thumbsup: :excited:

Dogwalker

  • Joined Nov 2011
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2014, 10:23:05 am »
in the hills - you should have popped in for a cuppa I'm just over the hill out of town. :)

ladyK

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Conwy Valley
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2014, 10:26:26 am »
Thanks ITH, I'll research some more about felting.
 This thread just gave me some ideas  :)  :thumbsup:
"If one way is better than another, it is the way of nature." (Aristotle)

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2014, 11:35:37 am »
Arrrr Dogwalker, didn't know you were so close to us.  We are between Welshpool and Newtown.  Like Llani and always come over for The Wool and Willow Festival and Christmas Market.

Dogwalker

  • Joined Nov 2011
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2014, 11:40:39 am »
Let me know next time your coming this way and I'll send you directions, if you come through Trefeglwys you pass the end of my lane.

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Wet felting workshop
« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2014, 05:15:32 pm »
Thank you ... will do.   ;D

 

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