Part 2

After getting through a very busy September, it was nice to have a 2 day break at the Kanata Gaming and Felting convention. Day one, Friday, I spent working on giving the claw more of a diamond theem. I already showed you the gaming side and a couple quick pics of the dragon hand in progress.  It was a nice spot to work. I alternated listening to the increasing parrils of the table playing Arkum Horror and an audio book.

9.2 Kanata Games club Day 1 felting project

As I said before, I started by spinning a bit of short-stapled silk, then reducing the twist before felting it onto the hand. I started at the claw tips and worked both the dorsum and palmar sides. I used sewing pins to work out the diamond shapes. Working on a curved surface the diamonds got a bit odd in shape but most were diamondish at least.

9.3-9.4 adding diamonds to the hand

You can see I still have too much twist in the silk I spun, I will take more out shortly. The green thing is another extendable magnet, I only dropped a needle twice so it was helpful to have.

9.5 I had trouble with making diamonds flow around the edge of the webbing between his fingers.

9.6  I kept adjusting the pins to try to work out the layout of the diamond shapes.

9.71-9.72

9.8

9.9 not quite diamonds but an interesting scale pattern where the diamonds brake down.

I took a brake and worked on a few other projects as I wanted to get Ann’s opinion of the hand. She checked it out on October 21^st before she got to work on the helm she was making. She said it looked like he was wearing fish net stockings.

Hummm…… OK, let me think about this, I had wondered about adding colour at one end to give a bit more demension.

I also had more jobs for the sale suddenly occur, so had to work on the hand between more computer work.

10.1-10.2

Its almost time for the exhibition so I better work faster.  I am adding shredded sari silk to one end of the diamonds.

At the sale there is always an exhibition, the theme changes and the size and even the location of the display changes yearly. This year was our Diamond (75^th) anniversary of the Ottawa Guild. our original organizer Carl had problems at work going from a team of 3 to a team of 2 to a team of Carl who still had to do the work of 3 for the pay of 1. That just dosn’t seem fair. So he had to step down from  organizing the exhibit and we had Wendy step in at the last moment. She did a great job with a short lead time.

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11.3

She did most of the assembly of the display on Friday night, with a bit shuffling she had a lovely display.

11.4

There were a couple of felted pieces in the exhibition that I thought  you might be most interested in.

12.1-12.2 Ann and Jan Collaboration Dragon hand in Helm with dimonds

#6 Ann McElroy and Jan Scott     Un-Named – we invite you to suggest a name,   Wet felt, Nuno Felt, Needle felt, Wool silk nylon polyester wire.

13.1-13.2 Molly’s Bracelet

#16 Molly Underhill       Diamond Eternity Bracelet,    Wet felting and bead work, Merino and silk, Glass Beads

After the Guild Sale weekend, Part of the Exhibition was hung  in the Gallery just outside of the Studio in Heartwood house (Ottawa).

14.1-14.2 the two main walls of the gallery

–14.3) There is also the mitts and a small handwoven and embellished bag just around the corner.

Post script;

We decided we should have a photo shoot so you could see the collaboration a bit better.

First we took pictures of the assembled Helm, Hand and diamonds.

15.1-15.4 Photo shoot for the Helm, Hand and Diamonds

15.5-15.6 Attempted Cookie Thief

Afterwards, the Dragon hand seems to have discovered the last shortbread cookie, I think the Helm was taking note of the cookie too.   Can you see the frustration as the Dragon hand realizes I did not make a dragon mouth and stomach to go with it?  OH the Despair!!! Is Ann’s  helm getting closer, in case it can claim the cookie?