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Merry Christmas Everyone!
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We had a lovely morning last Saturday with our very first live Felt-in via Zoom where we felted alongside Sandy. The morning was spent learning how to make a Tarantellic Talisman. The inspiration came form Katrina Virgona and featured in the Australian magazine 'Felt' a while back.
This shot captures some of Sandy's little talismen or is it talismans?!! These little objects were designed to be held in the palm of a hand whenever you have an irresistible urge to dance! They are surrounded by lots of folklore but we just wanted to make little objects for our project with Brooklands school.
Mandy captured a screen shot of some of us watching as Sandy did a demonstration and we got to ask questions before beginning in our own creations. This was the closest we were able to get to our special Christmas Felt-ins of the past - Santa hats and glitter but we had fun just the same!
To begin the project you need to select a stone that is smooth, palm size and doesn't have any sharp edges. This is then wrapped in wadding before we begin to add the wool.
Some members got stuck in straight away and others were content to watch and learn.
This image captures the moment when Sandy dipped the wrapped stone in water - it definitely takes two hands!
The two hours passed very quickly and we didn't get to complete our own talismans. But we were inspired and some of us have moved on a couple of steps with adding the tails which we think the children will love!
Below is Ann's little stone which still needs a little more work but showing lots of promise!!
I made some extra legs but I think I'll keep them for another talisman!
A huge thank you to Sandy for a great morning and for those of you who couldn't make it, don't despair we will be forwarding a video for you to try making your own little pile of special stones!
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