Felting and Fiber Studio

Every year I think I never had much time to do everything I wanted, but at least I did get to do some things which I enjoyed. I always enjoy the challenges we do on the Studio site and seeing everyone’s entries. I think this was my favourite piece from all the challenges, from Ann’s Stewart Stephenson challenge:

I tried a few new things this year, one of them was making a hat for the first time:

I also tried commercial prefelt pieces kindly donated by Heidi Feathers.

I also tried a new embellishment fibre, Kapok:

And some new animal fibres. This is yak, it was the softest fibre I’d ever felt (or felted!):

Until I got some camel fibre, even softer!:

I know a lot of people prefer to make felt with a ‘purpose’, but I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of experimenting and trying combinations of different wool breeds or animal fibres with various embellishment fibres, just for the fun of it. A few of my favourite pieces: Dark Brown Corriedale with Ingeo:

Angora goat with black and white viscose:

Another things I love is texture, surface design and sculptural felt, I did a bit of that this year too:

I do like colour too, so had fun dyeing a lot of wools and embellishment fibres recently. The milk protein was especially gorgeous:

Thanks a lot for all the support this past year and all the nice comments an helpful advice, I hope you’ve enjoyed your past year too 🙂