Showing posts with label Ulrieke Benner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ulrieke Benner. Show all posts

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Wool Gathering

I've been gathering my supplies ready for the felting workshop I'm taking with Ulrieke Benner on Saltspring Island, because I leave for it tomorrow! I have an idea to use some of my natural dyed fabrics - but I'm also taking other fabrics, yarns, threads and beads. I hope to come back with new knowledge and some pieces I like. We have had some beautiful sunny days and it would be great if tomorrow's weather is nice, too.

I dyed some silk rods and made a rose with them:



And I wet felted some wool so that I could dye it with some brilliant red maple leaves. The red sides are facing down in the photos and as you can see, I didn't end up with red anyhow, but brown.


I've added it to my stash headed to Saltspring, and I'm excited!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Clearing the Fog

I love fog and the element of mystery it adds to the landscape. A recent foggy morning carried into another wet felting experiment:

And here is the wool after the addition of soap, water and alot of elbow grease!



The white wispy look also reminds me of cobwebs. If I were to do it over, I might put less on, as the leaves are a little too obscured - but I can also use stitch to alter that. Here is the opposite side:

I also was at a day workshop with Sue Nylander about fitting a vest or a jacket and came away with a variety of measurements that I hope are correct, since me and my partner in the workshop kept getting different numbers when we would double check. I don't know if I'll use any of the information since I have hardly ever sewn clothing or worked with a pattern - but at least I have some guidelines, now. The jacket I sewed before the workshop still needs binding and I hope to get to that soon. Oh - and I signed up for a felting workshop with Ulrieke Benner on Saltspring Island at the end of the month. I am wanting to clear my fog about specific textural things and she is very flexible in teaching what her students want to know.