I recently took a felting workshop at the new location of the Weaving and Fiber Arts Center of the Weavers Guild of Rochester. This is my first class with Marie, although I have admired her work for a long time. We made little capelets using a nuno felt technique, Each capelet has a little felted flower embellishment, although mine isn't sewed together yet...
This is Marie's original design so I won't be making any of these to sell, but I have a nice piece to wear and enjoy, and learned a lot in the process. We did ombre coloration which was new to me, and layed the felt out in an overlapping X pattern instead of the shingling I have always done. It made a thin yet structurally sound piece of felted cloth. Marie had pre-dyed all the silk gauze that we used in the class, and had serged all the edges with cotton so the stitching matched the silk. There was a big bin of merino roving and novelty yarns to chose from and each of the classmates came up with a unique and beautiful piece. We each made a little flower pin for a closure but they weren't finished in class, because the shaping had to dry.
This is Marie's original design so I won't be making any of these to sell, but I have a nice piece to wear and enjoy, and learned a lot in the process. We did ombre coloration which was new to me, and layed the felt out in an overlapping X pattern instead of the shingling I have always done. It made a thin yet structurally sound piece of felted cloth. Marie had pre-dyed all the silk gauze that we used in the class, and had serged all the edges with cotton so the stitching matched the silk. There was a big bin of merino roving and novelty yarns to chose from and each of the classmates came up with a unique and beautiful piece. We each made a little flower pin for a closure but they weren't finished in class, because the shaping had to dry.
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