Alison's scarf - dry wool tops laid out ready for the soap and warm water
We had a very successful gathering on Friday 31st August at the Village Hall. Eight people arrived for the day; six people felted items from bootees and mats to scarves and lengths of silk and felt fabric and two peole spent the morning in the kitchen with bubbling pans of rhubarb and mulberries, dying lenghts of fabrics
Alison's scarf, part felted and very wet!
Rachel's wool tops laid out on a length of silk chiffon ready for the soap and water felting stage
Rachel modelling her gorgeous silk and wool fabric - the photo really doesn't do it justice.
Cotton, silk and wool fabrics dyed with natural dyes and drying in the Creeting St Mary sunshine
Silk and Merino Wool Scarves drying in the breeze
Seamless Booties
Seamless Felt Booties - the wool tops wrapped around a resist cut from 'Funky Foam', wetted and soaped to start felting process. When the wool shrinks tightly to the resist pattern, the shape is cut through round the centre join and the resist is removed. Further work is done to felt, shape and full the booties and then they can be rinsed thoroughly, stuffed to maintain their shape and left to dry (see below)
Seamless Bootees with the resist removed. More felting and fulling to do - the fabric is fairly fragile still and the edges need to be felted in to make a firm edge. The challenge is to make them the right size and the same size (which I didn't quite achieve - perhaps these of for a baby with slightly 'odd' feet!)
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