Wednesday 6 March 2013

Crochet and Felt

At last week's Fabulous Felt course one of my learners was our Elizabeth, Director of the Community Learning Partnership. I have been running the course for a few years and she loves to see all the learners work but she has never really had the chance to make any felt herself. She is slightly addicted to wool though; the colours, its softness (its SMELL!!??) and all the amazing things can be made from those lovely wool tops! 

However, Elizabeth's greatest current addiction is Crochet. Whenever I go into the office she has crocheted something new or bought more delicious wool for our learners to use on our crochet courses. So it shouldn't be a surprise that she had been wondering if you could combine crochet with handmade felt.



The answer is, of course, YES!



Felt making is such an amazing adventure that we never stop learning how many different things you can do with it. The wackiest things work if you know the basics of how felt is made  
and you can embed all kinds of things into the fibres as they felt.

So this week, on part 2 of the course, she is going to bring some pieces of crochet to experiment with. In the meantime I had a little experiment of my own.

I found some gorgeous space dyed merino yarn in my stash and crocheted some circles of different kinds and sizes and added them to the bottom of of my seascape panel that I was using to demo felting to the class. As the felting was barely started the crocheted motifs adhered really well to the pre felt and moulded the bottom of the panel with some lovely curves.

I added shells and some stitching to finish it all off. I love adding crochet to felt! Thanks Elizabeth and lets see how our experiments turn out on Saturday. I'm really looking forward to seeing how everyone's felt turns out. It is always wonderful to see beginners turn into Fabulous Felters.


I will post some  photos of the class work next week. 


5 comments:

  1. What a fantastic picture I love it.When are you going to do some more fab felting courses at the feathers or elsewhere?

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  2. Hi Dawn, Thanks so much! There are some more coming up after Easter with you and Stella in mind because you missed out last time. They will be in the Heavenly Art Cafe. The office will call you soon. But if they don't please call them!x

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  3. Wow!!! That is just amazing! It never even occurred to me you could make your own felt, and look at those stunning things you have created! :( x

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  4. Oh Sara, Handmade felt is such an amazing medium to work with. You'd love it! Come to one of the courses sometime. We'd have such fun! Thanks so much for visiting my blog and for liking my facebook page. x

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