The Gathering on Saturday 17th November looks to be popular.  We have at least nine people booked to attend.  Around 4pm, we'll put out on show the many and varied things members of the group have made; either at a Never Ever Felt Better Gathering or elsewhere in 2012.

Nothing fancy or formal but people and friends are welcome to come up to the hall and have a look/see :-)  We hope to offer tea and coffee and we'll try to leave few nibbles from our Pot Luck lunch for our guests.

So - from 4 to 6 o'clock - we'll be 'On Show'  - hope people like it!

Six of us met at the Gathering on Thursday 25th, which began around 4.30 pm.  Jacqui and Wendy made seamless felt bags, Lin started on a large many-layered, multi-coloured piece of felt (now complete and really quite amazing), Sue completed a delightful knitted tea cosy from a genuine vintage pattern, Alison worked on embellishing her felt slippers (made in a recent workshop with Cathy at Sticky Paws http://www.stickypawsfelting.co.uk/ ) and I fiddled about; experimenting with making a bowl with a circular resist (instead of over a balloon) and with a finishing layer of a hand-dyed silk ‘cap’.

We all got very peckish around 7 o’clock and generous members produced home-made soups, warm focaccia bread and grain salads which everyone enjoyed immensely. We wondered whether to change our group name to Food ‘n’ Felting and we certainly felt better (and felted better) after such a delicious supper.

We finally cleared the hall and left well after 9 pm; tired but satisfied.

We had a really fun evening on 4th October – the Gathering being held between 4.30 and 9.00 pm.  Many and various items were made including a wool felt hen sculpture, a silk and wool felt scarf, wool felt flowers and leaves and a wool felt spectacle case.

The time went very quickly. Some of us stopped briefly for supper  and Lin took her chicken home to complete the felting as it was made of many layers for extra sturdiness.