Experiments

On Friday I spent a lovely day felting with a friend. In fact the friend who taught me to felt. Truthfully we spent most of the day talking so we were not so productive in terms of felt actually made but we shared many ideas on how to do things . We discussed the incorporation of stones and pebbles , under here are some shiny glass stones. It will be interesting to see how they glint though when it is felted.

We did a small test of using prefelt under fabric to create bubbles.

This has worked I think, and probably works better if you use felt instead of prefelt. Eventually this will become a hat.

The remaining question for Friday was how to make waves in felt on a small scale . It is quite easy to visualize how to do this on a huge felted piece . Here is an example we like.

You can see more like this at http://www.annekecopier.nl

But how to make the same effect on a small scale. I thought with use of prefelt and embellishing but I am not sure this would give sharp enough lines.

Meantimes I have a draft brief from a very fussy client , myself , to complete for my course so I think that takes priority for now and waves will have to wait. But if we could crack it it could fit very well with this years Felt United's theme of water.

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Beautiful morning

I have been away from home walking in the UK Lake District , a favorite place of mine. The weather has not been typical. Snow was lying on all the fells above about 300m and the skies were clear . It was freezing at night and like being in the Alps during the day. I only thought about felting , but do have some inspirations that I am working on for a panel. More in a later blog . For now some photos capturing the beautiful weather and scenery at Grasmere early one morning.

The fells reflected in the lake. Image not complete due to the thin layer of ice on the lake.

The cracking ice being washed up gently on the shore.

Geese in flight from the island.

A still and peaceful reflection.

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