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Naturals For A Nature Lover
I wanted to make a piece of felt for one of my friends as a thank you for helping us out recently, he’s into the environment and nature, so I thought a piece using all natural wools and undyed fibres … Continue reading
Posted in natural wools, Uncategorized, Wet Felting
Tagged natural fibres, natural wools, wet felting, Wool locks
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Recent Pieces:
I finally got photos of the piece I showed being laid out a couple of weeks ago. It was dark purple in the middle with black at each end, and I used lots of different natural fibres on it: I … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Wet Felting
Tagged natural fibres, natural wools, synthetic fibres, wet felting
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Well Being Centre
I think I’ve posted a couple of photos from the Well-Being centre once or twice before, but definitely not for a while, so I thought I’d take some to share today. There were only two of us in the class, … Continue reading
Posted in Wet Felting
Tagged felting for well being, natural wools, well being, well being centre, wet felting
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Natural Wools and First Quarter Challenge
We made thick mats/placemats/coasters at the well being group last week. I took in some natural wools, partly to keep costs down, but also because I really like the combination of colours and textures they create when used together. I … Continue reading
Natural Wools For a Pod and Weaving
I made another bird pod last week, this time using various natural grey wools. The pictures aren’t the best because when I went to take photos yesterday afternoon, it suddenly went really dark, then we had the most epic hour … Continue reading
Posted in natural wools
Tagged cardboard loom, drop spindle, felting, natural wools, spindle spinning, weaving, wet felting
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Texture With Natural Wools
It was interesting to see Marilyn’s 3rd Quarter Challenge last week about creating/adding dimension to our felt projects, we’d just started exploring dimension and texture at the well being centre’s wet felting and fibre group. The piece I made last … Continue reading
Posted in Wet Felting
Tagged dimension, natural fibres, natural wools, texture, wet felting
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Year End Round Up
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 … Continue reading
Suffolk, Banana, Masham and Bamboo
I’ve used banana fibre tops with Suffolk wool tops before, so I know they look really interesting together. I fluffed up some of the banana fibre, and added it to the top of the Suffolk. Though I used lessl of … Continue reading
Posted in natural wools, Other Fibers, Wet Felting
Tagged Bamboo top, Banana fibre, Masham wool, natural wools, Suffolk wool, wet felting
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Natural Wools and Embellishment Fibre Panels
I was thinking recently that I might have to change my plans a little bit, and make some different sized templates for my felt panels. Quite a few of the wools I’ve got have a very long staple length, much … Continue reading
Posted in natural wools, Other Fibers, Wet Felting
Tagged embellishment fibres, Finn wool, flax, handmade felt, hemp, Jacob wool, natural felt, natural wools, soy staple fibre, viscose, wet felting
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Giveaway Winner and Natural Wools and Fibres
GIVEAWAY WINNER: The winner of the Complete Wet Felting Kit from Heidi Feathers is … Kirsty Lowde. Congratulations, Kirsty , please can you leave a comment on this post so I can pass your contact info on to Zoe so … Continue reading
Posted in Giveaways, natural wools, Other Fibers
Tagged embellishment fibres, natural fibres, natural wools, textures, wool breeds
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