Batik in Bali
Six weeks in creative heaven! I fell in love with Bali on my first visit there three years ago. So when I had the chance to make a second visit, I didn’t need much persuading; it’s an artist’s heaven. For those of you who have never visited Bali, I am based in an area called […]
Batik – an ancient art form going back thousands of years
Batik is not so much an art form as a journey in art. With it you can create beautiful, functional pictures. The colourful Batik piece will look lovely when framed. Alternatively you can turn it into soft furnishing or even an item of clothing. Using 100% unbleached cotton, silk or other natural fibres you define […]
Feltworld End Of Year Greetings
Feltworld End Of Year Greetings Hello, as I write this the …’Tis the season to be jolly’ is half-way through, the turkey’s been eaten, the chocolate pile is dwindling, and the house decorations are still twinkling – with thoughts of when to take them down in the back of my mind. Elsewhere, shopping is back […]
Needle Felting Festive Blog – Feltworld
Hello and welcome to my creative world. In previous posts, I’ve written about wet felting techniques. Wet felting is where you use soap and water to felt 100% natural lambs wool fibres together to form a durable material, the tiny hooks that are on the individual fibres link together due to the action of rubbing […]
Discover the fascination of creative felt-making
Felt – the oldest textile We typically think of textiles as the woven cloth used for clothes and soft furnishings. But it wasn’t always that way. Wool has been used in creative ways for thousands of years. Felt, made out of wool fibre, is thought to be the oldest known textile. For many people, especially […]
Funky Felted Footstool – Made in a Day
Make an upholstered footstool in a day Felted wool lends itself to all sorts of uses, an upholstered footstool for example. Did you know you can make upholstered footstools out of felt? OK, so not entirely out of felt – there’s a wooden frame and some foam upholstery padding as well (which I supply on […]
Felt Slipper and Bowl Making
You’ll be surprised at what you can make using felted wool! I love to teach this class and am really looking forward to teaching it again. My workshops are usually very flexible as I prefer to have people making what they would like to make. I would much rather you make something that you want to use […]