Fabulous felting!

Remember some time ago I said I had been invited to have a creative play date with local felter Joni Phippin?

Well last week we got together and had a wonderful day of fun and fiber, with lots of chatting and tea of course!

We worked on two of my sketches and made them into felt pictures.

Here are a few pictures of what I got up to.

Joni had kindly prepared a huge copy of the sketch. We layed it underneath bubble wrap, then worked on top.

I loved the process of layering and laying down the fibers, it was a lot like painting, but backwards……….if that makes any sense to you!

What I mean is we laid the details first, then the surface of the work, then the background.

Here is the final image of the sketch I worked on, I hope joni blogs hers soon. It wasn’t quite finished by the time I had to go, but was looking beautiful. She used some fabulous colours!

I stuck to black and white as I wanted to see how well I could stay true to the original sketch.

I must say that I really love it! I also want to say a big thankyou to Joni for a wonderful day and for kindly sharing her skills and teaching me a new technique.

Thanks Joni you’re a star!

More work from the exhibition coming up this week, stay tuned!

CX

Tags: creativity, Art, felting, Sketches, craft, felt, wet felting, felt pictures, sketchbook, felt techniques