felted landscapes

Had a very successful day on my latest workshop 'Felted Landscapes'- seven students all very keen & producing lovely results of their work. Hopefully some of the work can be embellished at my next workshop.

Caroline & Kath

Margaret at work

Helena, Irene and Kathy

Polly and Kathy

Piece yet to be felted 

 

Caroline's felted landscape

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                                    resists yet to be removed

 resists yet to be removed

My piece of market in Inca Valley- yet to be embellished.

Calabria

Nearly finished my hanging on Calabria- not yet thought of a title, but will come up with something when completed- Decided against using patchwork techniques as too perfect, so used the tried & tested technique of bondaweb & ironing on the pieces of naturally dyed fabrics- spent all yesterday afternoon free machine stitching- but the results look good, especially after rubbing over with a teabag to distress the buildings.

Have now finished the hanging, by adding more free machine stitching & for a change I have framed it with glass. This finished the piece off as it is pictorial & looks great in the frame.

Won't be adding a photo just yet as piece will be going into Exhibition 'Spirit of Place' at Alston Hall on 30th June.

Current Workshops

I am running a further workshop at Avant Garden Centre on Wednesday 4th June 10.00-4.00 'Embellishment made Easy' this will be a follow on to workshop 'Felted Landscapes' which is being held on Wednesday 30th April. However the two workshops do not have to be linked & can be attended in isolation.

In the second workshop you will learn how to embellish by hand using hand stitching, beads and needle felting tools. You will also have the opportunity to learn how to free machine stitch & use an embellishing machine.

If you have an embellishing machine at home which you have not yet come to terms with, bring it along & learn how to use it!!!

This workshop will give students the inspiration & motivation to complete any unfinished  pieces of work left hanging around at home, by embellishing & completing. You can also work on your felted pieces which you would have worked on at the 'Felted Landscape' workshop.

Of course you may wish to start a new piece on the embellisher!!!

To book & obtain a requirement list please contact Avant Garden Centre, Wigan Rd, Leyland, Lancs PR25 5XW T 01772 433777-The cost for the workshop is £35.00 which includes a light lunch & refreshments throughout the day.

Been stewarding at Arthouse, Southport. Only a few visitors & no sales yet!!! Live in hopes.

Heard that shop now open in Scotland- Owl & Pussycat & that they have had some very good comments & feedback. Hope for some sales there.

Family up for a week- we had a great week, very tiring but we did do loads of stuff. Took some inspiring photos up the Lakes- we did a long walk, with Caleb(aged 7) as Guide Leader- not sure how his little legs felt but mine were very tired.

Had a great day in Manchester, but no time to get to Fred Aldous as Grandchildren wanted to look at toys & clothes. Caleb broke a hand off a manaquin in Debenhams(sorry!) He was shaking it at the time, and it came off in his hand.

Immy bought a prom dress- how quickly they grow up- but she did look stunning in it.

Jared found a new friend( Star the dog) & went to a Rugby match with his Dad, brother & Grandad.

Back to normality now, house will seem empty when they go home today.

Spent all morning sorting out Natural Progression Textile Group's exhibition pieces for ArtHouse. Tracey, Pat & I are putting up the exhibition tomorrow, 86 pieces in total!!!

The details of exhibition are as below:

'Glancing Back?' Retrospective Textile Exhibition by Natural Progression Textile Group
15th April to 26th April 2014
Arthouse 65 Eastbank Street, Southport, PR8 1EJ
Opening times Tues-Fri 10.00am to 3.00pm
Sat 11.00am to 4.00pm.
for more details contact arthousesca@gmail.com


Preview Tuesday 15th April 
7.00pm to 8.30pm

For an opportunity to view our work & meet the artists- ALL WELCOME

Lets hope we have plenty of visitors & make some sales.

Mine above & Tracey's below

Eileen's work

Caroline's above & I think Tracey's below?

Felted Landscapes-

I am running a workshop on Wednesday 30th April 10.00am to 4.00pm at Avant Garden Centre, Wigan Road, Leyland, Lancs PR25 5XW 01772 433777-
Ring Avant for more details & to book a place.

my landscape of valley of the Incas-Peru
-Not fully completed-

Photos will follow, hopefully with some students lovely pieces of work- lets hope I get enough students for workshop to run???

Sent a big parcel of goodies to the Owl & the Pussycat shop in Scotland, hopefully make some sales!!!

                                         Examples of my work at Owl & Pussycat shop. 

'"It's Raining Cats" Bags

"Hooting Tooting" Bag

"Hooting Tooting" Bag

Pure silk ties-Tray dyed

Cats under Moonlight card

Cats Galore card

Needle felted owl wallet/card holder

Needle felted cat wallet/card holder

Hi here are some photos of Tracey & my tray dyeing exploits- we had a great two days mixing, manipulating & dyeing all manner of natural fabrics, scarves, ties, threads & pieces of material.

Loved hanging out the goodies after rinsing, & weather just right. Trouble is my hands took 2 days to look normal as I always forget to put my rubber gloves on when rinsing!!!!

Welcome to my new Blog, just about managed to set it up!!!




I will be adding new workshop details as I go, and showing photos of my students work.


I would like to share photos of my work for exhibitions and items I have sent for sale.(that's if I can discover why I can't add photos??)




My latest workshop was designed for beginners in Free Machine Embroidery & for those who are more advanced and that have attended the previous beginners class.




Despite only having 6 students on the day, as 2 had unfortunately cancelled early on the morning of the workshop, we had great fun and I really enjoyed interacting with the remaining brave six.


It is great to see the light dawning in the eyes of beginners & the knowledge that they now GET IT!

                                                               ' Ladies at Work'
We all machined into old tights, which resulted in beautiful distorted lacy pieces of work, which can be used to embellish bags etc.


My next workshop is Felting Landscapes, sharing the technique I learned at a recent EG workshop with Janet Phillips from The Threshing Barn- this technique using resists is an easy way to wet felt, less arduous and strenuous for those with arthritic hands!

My partially completed landscape-'Sacred Valley of the Incas'

This will be on Wed 30th April 10.00-4.00 at Avant Garden Centre, Wigan Rd, Leyland PR25 5XW Tel 01772 433777- anyone interested should contact them for details & to book.


I am also doing a further workshop on Wed 4th June, on needle felting & embellishing- hopefully those attending the felting workshop, can learn how to further embellish their felted landscapes. However the workshop can also stand alone, & new students are welcome also.