Felting and Fiber Studio

I mentioned in my last post that we’d started playing with resists at the well-being centre recently, I showed the piece I’d made using strips and said we’d used flat resists for pouches. This is the one I made, though we all made fairly similar ones:

And this is the back:

Last week, we used flat resists to make 3D vessels, or at least mostly make, as some of us ran out of time! This is an action shot of Louise, fulling hers:

Still working on it, but it wasn’t far off being done, and this wasn’t much over an hour after starting:

It looked a lot nicer, but we’re in a basement with yellowy ceiling lights. I had to finish mine off when I got home:

Stopping and starting and nattering, and probably general lack of concentration meant my inner two layers of Cheviot were separate from the locks and top two layers of Merino around the top a little bit:

I thought this week, we might do something sculptural, maybe something like this shell shaped piece:

Or maybe something more ‘abstract’ and textural, like this:

I mentioned in the comments to my last post that we’re running out of dyed Merino, the group who originally bought the supplies have moved on to a different centre so we’re going to have to come up with fundraising ideas soon, but for now The Felting and Fiber Studio are our new ‘sponsors’, so I’m going to do a stock-check tomorrow then order some lovely new colours 🙂

If you have any suggestions for future themes for us to explore, post them in the comments 🙂