Hanky Doodle Dandy!

Dympna's little bag with lots of silk hankies

Well we might not have been singing but we were laughing and having lots of fun learning about silk hankies and how to use them in our felt.

Ann led the session and explained all about how the hankies were made - she'd even brought some photos of a visit she'd made to Turkey last year where she visited a carpet making factory and saw zillions of silk cocoons in large vats being prepared for use in beautiful Turkish rugs.

Ann points out the piece of cocoon still trapped

She'd brought along lots of samples which showed the versatility of these wonderful little things  from adding texture and colour to creating subtlety in a felted picture, silk hankies were well and truly explored.  We stretched them, scrunched them, flattened them, shaped them all with very interesting and differing results. 

Spot the hanky!!

These are some of Ann's lovely samples which proved very inspirational for our

felters to have a go themselves!

During the Show n Tell members shared some of the things they'd been working on which led to lots of compliments and loads of questions!

The morning passed in a flash and produced some beautiful samples all very different and all very inspiring.

Well done to everyone and keep on FELTING!!