Workshop with Katia Mokeyeva

The numbers on this workshop were limited to eight due to the high skill level of the workshop! The eight of us arrived full of enthusiasm, with bags of wool and all our equipment!

Ann cutting out her pattern.

It was interesting the way Katia had worked out the pattern, although for The Feltmakers North Girls it was a bit mind blowing until we got our heads around it! 

We got instruction on how to lay down our fibre and we set to work!

Gail with head down working hard.

Close up of the detail of one of Katias jackets!

Adding detail after the fibres had been laid!

Deirdre's colourful piece

Deirdre then added pices of cheesecloth to add texture to the outside of her garment.

Dorothy arranging her silk for maximum textural effect.

Mary's sculptured wrap.

Mary felting her piece using a sander and very important ear muffs, it certainly  made the process easier!

It was two days of hard work and we all learnt a lot, with some pleasing results, although they are not all finished yet. We are looking forward to seeing them at the show and tell at the next Felt in!

Talking of which the next felt in is on Saturday 21st November and we will be doing weaving of prefelts which is great fun. Ann our chairperson will be guiding us through this technique and there will be prefelts available to purchase on the day! As usual we start with a welcome cup of coffee, and a catch up chat with everyone!

We hope to have all the photos of the exhibition soon so keep checking the blog!

The entries are coming in for the sheep photographic competition I'm glad to say but please keep sending them in. email feltmakersnorth@gmail.com

As I can't enter the competition, saying as it was my idea, I thought I would end with a sheep photo I took recently in Donegal. 

May be you can think of a caption for this photo?

Look forward to seeing you all on Saturday at 10.15!

Fiona Harvey