I am crazy about felt! I admit it. I started as a young girl with a love for sewing, migrated to painting and drawing love, then to knitting love and finally felting. So I guess that makes Felt my current love affair. Who could possible know what will come next? For now, it's all about everything Felt!
On that note, here are a few photo's of Lynda Watson's (my felt instructor from last week) magical felt cactus brooches. Lynda is a silver smith artist, so it's no joke to me that she would naturally progress to sculpting felt. The possibilities of sculpting felt are somewhat similar to the challenges of working metal (I took a semester of metal smithing while finishing up my degree at SDSU). The benefit to working with felt is that it is clean, soft, mess free, delicate and forgiving. Plus, the natural fiber just feels so good in one's hands!
Our felting class was filled with like minded souls; knitters, artists, metal workers, jewelry artists, all natural fiber lovers. One thing I wanted to try during our time together was wet felting. Even though our instructor, Lynda, was an accomplished felter, she hadn't done too much wet felting.
I started out making flat felt sheets to get the feel of things...
...then, voila! A bowl is born!
The end of the week brought everybody's finished work out on display for the art opening. Here's my display of wet and dry needle felting. It was a rich week filled with learning all sorts of new felting techniques, and I enjoyed every minute!
Sign me... So felt happy :o)
x, Val
