Discussing felting with some of my local friends recently I was asked ” Don’t you know enough about felting to teach it yet ?’ Well I thought maybe I did so we organised a date for a small workshop, with two participants. I then had to think about what I was going to teach. I decided on making a small vessel around a balloon . I choose this because it really shows the power of felt as a structural medium, it allows lots of artistic expression and it’s a bit of fun. As the building work was about to start at my house the workshop was held at one of the participants houses.
So here is the one of the vessels being laid out .
And the start of some very vibrant decoration.
It was such a lovely day , so we moved to the beautiful garden and used lots of water to roll the vessels .
After lots of fun in the sunshine we eventually blew up the balloons to complete the final shaping.
And left these two beauties to dry in the sun.
Many thanks Sue and Clare for such a great day.
Teri Berry
24 Jul 2016What fun and judging by the finished vessels it looks like it was a huge success! Do you have any more teaching planned?
jane_mercer
31 Jul 2016Yes it’s was great fun. Hopefully I will do some more teaching soon.
Els
25 Jul 2016Lovely Jane ! It must have been so much fun !
Great result too (think they will be wanting more ?
(ha, remember things like that … 😉 …)
Miss our felting days.
(btw : beautiful red Penstemons …)
jane_mercer
31 Jul 2016I miss our felting days too, but I am looking forward to seeing you in September XX
Jane
27 Jul 2016Hi Teri , I hope to do some more teaching but at the moment location is a bit of a problem.
Jane
27 Jul 2016Els I miss our felting days too , but I am looking forward to seeing you in September . ????