Felting workshop

Today was the first of many workshops at Cafe Create in Darlington.
All those that attended enjoyed making a piece of 'wet' felt.
From learning the stages needed to create a little piece of surface pattern art work, the ladies used Marino wool felt 'tops' to create there own personal deisign.
Joanne Land made a cup of coffee design and plans to continue with wet felting, to make a Cafe Create sign.
Whist demonstrating, I too made a felt image of a cup cake and once it's dry I'll add the decoration to make it yuuummmyy!
It was lovely to meet new people in a creative environment with like minded people-a great session!

A mass of flowers and wool.

This week I have focused on an idea I have had for a little while.
I wanted to develop a way of using felt flowers for a variety of different items.
It was a bit tricky working out the best way to fold the flowers, But after lots of fiddling around and a few grumpy moments, I was on a roll.
I have had some beautiful natural wool felt for a long time and was so happy to use this and give the flowers a natural look.
I was asked to produce a heart in cream wool felt and plan to do more of these as I'm do pleased with the results.
I finished a picture this week using natural felt roving and a wet felting technique. It is wonderful stuff to work with and a very tactile process, some times the result is not always what you expected but that is the nature of the wool and using a natural product.