
A wonderful time had by all!
Amazing colours greeted us as the silk shimmered on a table covered with scarves. Every scarf had a label with instructions on what silks were used, what length was required, how much wool was needed and other details how the scarves were felted. This gave felters great guidance for their own scarf making. Each scarf featured different materials from silks to lace and the all important silk hankies.
After a warm welcome Nancy took us through a mind boggling journey of the many different applications of the silk hankies. As each scarf was unique and there were countless ways to shape and apply the hankies and other materials. Nancy explained how to felt the scarves with simple easy to understand words and accompanied not only with samples, but demonstrations on how the silk hankies were best felted. All participants sat wrapped in awe, longing to follow in Nancy’s foot steps. Nancy brought what seemed her entire supply of hankies in all imaginable colours and offered to bring whatever wool was needed by the participants for the next day a great additional service.
Saturday after a short recap all felter’s enthusiastically went about designing their scarfs I felt that everyone had, by now, a very good understanding on how to apply the silk hankies. Nancy constantly visited each and everyone, gave advise and a helping hand were needed.
Fabulous designs took shape over the course of the day. Everyone had a great time laying out and felting the scarfs and they were all rolled in the afternoon. To finish off Nancy showed us how to felt the scarfs using a glass washboard. I felt it was a wonderful workshop which was very well prepared, instructions were easy to understand and follow we all enjoyed ourselves and learned a lot.
Sue Espie gave us a wonderful demo on how to make delightful angels out of roving. Great for gifts or Chrissy tree decorations.
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Looking forward to everyone attending the Christmas party. Its always lots of fun (and good food).
Marion Wolter
Kerry Bertucci
Pat Kendal
Jeanette Humphries
Sue Eslick & Louise Nidorf
Sara Quail
Alison Gomes
Katrina Virgona & Judy Barkla
Sue Harrington
Sue has taken some seriously good notes that are too complex for a regular post so here is PDF to download: 3-D Felt Workshop Notes final
But here are the photos!
The September Meditation Beads workshop with Nancy Ballesteros was both incredibly inspiring and relaxing in equal measures. Day 1 introduced participants to new ways of thinking and working with nuno felt, pushing the boundaries of traditional nuno and making a rich highly textured cloth from fabrics that we never dreamed of felting before. Day 2 had us cutting, stitching, embellishing and creating a broad range of beautiful textile beads. Nancy brought along an expansive collection of examples of beads and materials to get the creative juices flowing, and also showed us different options for cords to string the beads along. It was a fabulous, very enjoyable workshop, thank you Nancy. Here are some quotes from participants:
‘this has truly been two days of non-stop knowledge and production. The atmosphere has been very welcoming, fun and relaxing’.
‘I learnt so much, Nancy is a fabulous teacher and takes time to talk and advise each participant’.
‘Nancy’s workshop is the best way to get inspired’
‘The tutor has amazing skills and talent which are so well transferred to class members – from an awe-inspired class attendee.’
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