Spring has arrived!

This gorgeous little creature is one of Sarah's spring arrivals and isn't she adorable?  More pics below.

Our March Felt-in looked at making craters and channels in felt samples.  This was a technique I learned at one of Annemie Koenan's workshops organised by the International Feltmakers Association.  These are great techniques which can be used in lots of applications with felt.

We were concentrating on samples to be used in the Community Outreach Project with Brookfield School in Moira.

The channels can be cut much shorter or left as in this sample.  We're hoping the children will explore these  channels and enjoy the experience.

We had a great turn-out via Zoom for our Saturday session and hopefully we'll have a good pile of samples to stitch together very soon.

Craters were also demonstrated and these are really shibori style indentations in the felt.  They can be left as they are or turned out and perhaps filled with a felt bauble or even some scraps of wool.

All our felt-ins this year have been recorded on video except for our September meeting when we were very lucky to be able to meet in person. 

This means that we have built up a small library of videos with various techniques which members should find very useful to either learn something new or simply refresh their memories.

Dorothy and Cecelia were the lucky winners in our  March draw and they were given their choice of some lovely wool tops to keep them going for a while longer.

This month the winners will receive some little curls courtesy of Sarah so do keep watching out for all your information from Feltmakers North.

It will be wonderful to get back to meeting up again in person but in the meantime we will continue to hold our sessions via Zoom.

Maybe next year we'll be lucky enough to see from curls from this little girl!!

No prizes for guessing who this is!!

  

Hope to see you all very soon and in the meantime Happy Felting!!

All the best

Gail