Saturday, Feb 11th, 2023, was the date scheduled for the next 2D felted landscape workshop at the local guild. Before Xmas we had a lot of workshops have to reschedule. Either the weather was against us, or the instructor or the students had caught the flu going through town. (Technically that is better than covid but it still sounded awful.) In the aftermath of the sudden arrival of winter the weekend before, I had been left fighting Glenn’s generosity (he…
Last week I had the opportunity to take a 2 day class with Moy MacKay. I went with a couple of friends and we had a great time. We did the wet felting on day one. We had 2 pictures to choose from for the landscape. I chose the one the left. Moy demonstrated and explained to us how to work and what to do. We got to ask questions. She told us to take lots of pictures as we went because you…
Part 2 (part 1 https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2019/08/12/photos-as-reference-and-inspiration-part-1/ ) 1 Thinking back to my earlier post on photos as reference and inspiration I was looking at the lilacs from my back yard and seeing inspiration for nuno felted scarves. Using the flower petals for the ends (perhaps inverted with a block of the nondescript background for the middle. Moy MacKay’s technique with scissors may work with the petals or maybe bits and strands of silk. It would be a fun piece to…
Just after I took my Moy MacKay class I taught a felt hat class to 6 enthusiastic students. they wanted different styles but they all wanted folds in the top. and decorating, I am sure I took more pictures at this point but something went wrong because they are not on my phone. Then there was rubbing and rolling to do. Here they are after some shrinking but not there yet. The did shrink much to everyone’s amazement. I don’t…
2018 Taking Felting Workshop #3 with Moy Mackay 2018 was a big year for workshops for both myself and my husband. He finally got time off in the summer coinciding with the Blacksmithing conference he has wanted to attend for more than 10 years. Even better it was finally a drivable distance! I think he was feeling guilty because after many years of not traveling we take a big trip and it’s to go to a conference for him. From…
I had a show on the weekend. It was quite good. We put a big push on advertising on Facebook and Instagram and it looks like it paid off. There were more customers this year. It’s nice that everyone’s efforts paid off. This is what my booth looked like. I sat in the back near the mirror and worked on my Moy MacKay class picture. You can see it on the left of the table. People were very interested and…
While making little bags I also made a small picture. i suppose it would count for the first quarter challenge. happy-new-year-prepare-to-be-challenged/ i hope to do somthing a little more challenging before the quarter is over. I like little pasture scenes. I started with a piece of black prefelt and then laid the blue sky and pasture. I thought I took more pictures but it seems I didn’t. This what the back looks like. I wrapped the coloured fibers around the…
Our Guest Artist today is Terri Simon aka Meterrilee on the forum. Hello fellow fiber enthusiasts! I’m originally from Detroit, Michigan but moved to Oregon in 2014. I have been felting for about six years, both needle felting and vessels, but my real love is painting with felt and exploring different textures. Marilyn and I both recently participated in an online class from Opulent Fibers — Kristy Kun’s Texture Techniques with Needled Wool. Marilyn asked me to show my work…
Happy New Year! One of the things I wanted to do more of this past year was to stitch on felt. I did one wool painting based on Moy Mackay’s “Anemones” from her book Art Felt and Stitch that I used free motion embroidery for the first time. http://feltingandfiberstudio.com/?s=moy+mackay I was a bit intimidated, but Lyn from Rosiepink encouraged me to keep trying. So, using Rosiepink’s ebook I chose to try an embroidered bowl. http://rosiepink.typepad.co.uk/rosiepink/handmade-felt-and-stitch-bowls.html I gathered up a lot…
A while back, I purchased Moy Mackay’s book Art in Felt and Stitch. I like her use of bold colors and particularly like her flower and bird pieces. While chatting with Cathy (Luvswool), I learned she also had Moy’s book and we both liked one particular vase of flowers in the book called Anemones. We decided to do our own interpretation of that picture below. (The quality is not great because I took a picture of the picture in the…
