Thursday 2 February 2012

Felting the Landscape - Getting Spherical

Carole Miles ran a felting workshop for Back To books at the lovely village hall in Litchborough. The idea was to create spherical landscapes of views from along the Brampton Valley Way which will be used in an installation at some point. Carole originally hoped to install them in a railway carriage on Northampton and Lamport Station during the forthcoming reading by Kathy Page on the evening of March 2nd as a prelude to the online writing course she will be running our On the Right Track project. The venue for the reading has now been changed to The Old Water Tower in Brigstock. There will be more details about the reading and the course to follow soon!

It was a day of good company, laughter, exercise and creativity!
Laying on colours over the base
Damping the fibres
Getting on the first pair of tights
Preparing to put the felt back in boiling water
Bouncing to felt the fibres together
The strange magic of taking the roving from this state
to this!
One set of processes leading to so many different surfaces and textures



Sonia enjoyed the process so much she went on to embellish her first vessel and make more at home! and said"brilliant day felting at Litchborough making felt vessels based on the landscape, Carole coped well with our neediness - she can't have found it too bad though as she is running another for us next month! Good to be with a group of lovely like-minded people"


You can see more images from the day here
and read about Carole's experiments with felt here
We will be felting again later in the month!

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