Exhibition photo of my Ethereal Fairy Skirt

Here is a picture of my skirt at exhibition. Hope you like it… Warm wishes x x

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Second felt skirt panel

These are the fibres being laid out for another skirt panel. This time it is going to be rolled to prefelt in a machine. I wonder what the results will be like?……. The fibres were rolled more length ways than width ways and overall it took along time and messing about to set the whole [...]

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Funky felt hat 3D form in purples and pinks!

Here is a funky hat completely hand made using merino wool tops and my loving hands. A big THANKYOU to Mrs Cleaver who allowed me to borrow her Mum’s hat block, as she was a milliner. What do you think of the style and colours? Please leave comments so I can improve my work. What [...]

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Felt making creative study – shape 2 sample

This is another sketchbook page – looking at the relationship between colour and using metallic colours with and without a black border. So, I have decided to translate this page into felt, starting with the background, which was created with spent Procian dyes in my sketchbook. This has been achieved by purely carding merino wool [...]

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Felt making creative study – shape 1 sample

This is a page from my sketchbook for my City and Guilds Feltmaking course. I decided to use this page to translate my ideas into felt. As you can see the background echoes the shape of the petals, like in my sketchbook. The background is made of a carded mix of white and yellow fibres. [...]

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