Welcome Judy!
I am relatively new to the group and you have asked a lot of questions I had been thinking!
Good luck with your projects...I sew, spin, weave crotchet, and knit, as well as make felt....anything textiles really. Don't specialise - although sewing seems to work into all the other activities..... and am a hobbyist, not producing work commercially.
I am a Qld-er, but have lived in many parts of the world since I left the north in the early 1980s.
Regards
Lexi
Lexi Kellam
Carlingford, Sydney
> To: AussieFeltmakers@...
> From: judihoward@...
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:40:15 +0000
> Subject: [AussieFeltmakers] Re: Last call for Christmas swap
>
> Hi everyone
> My name is Judi and I live in Surfers Paradise ....Gold Coast... Qld...
> I did introduce myself some time ago...
> I am interested in 'doing a swap".... not now... but next year... I think it's a wonderful idea.
> My questions are:-
> The fibre swap sounds marvellous.... how does one know how much to send?... did you agree on a weight for instance?....
> I have read folk saying they loved what they received.... but... I would love more descriptions of the fibres one sends and one receives.... so I can have an idea how to join in next time....and start collecting.
> A few months ago I joined a marvellous group named Gold Coast Creative Textiles Group here on the Gold Coast...
> we meet at Broadbeach Library..
> I just can't tell you how much I enjoy and look forward to those monthly saturdays... everyone is so talented and happily share freely...
> So.... I am getting into the fibres now...and want to do more.
> The swapping of work I have already participated in a Mosaics Group to which I belong.... last year it was a 'shoe swap'....
> yep... a mosaiced shoe.... We are an international group and what fun!.... I received a mosaiced clog from a girl in America and I had to send mine to a girl in Canada.......
> We didn't know who we were going to swap with... because it was not an even exchange... and I am guessing that's how you have planned yours too.......you are told who you are sending your parcel to...
> We had to make our mosaiced shoe and send an email to the lady who was organising... and then she would send you the details where to send.... and then you waited for someone to finish theirs and on it went........ so noone knew when or from where the surprise package would arrive.......
> I can't put pictures on this email... as I could send you pics... if I knew how you would receive them.
> My felting effort has not been much yet..... I have started and almose finished a needle felted mermaid... which I have hanging on a tree but need to finish..... (that story was I had severed nose bleeds for four months and treatment so couldn't trust my nose wouldn't bleed to work on it). Previous to the mermaid... my first effort was a nuno felted scarf.... which I love very much.... and the thrid effort was a wet felted flower done at the GCCT Group but couldn't do it properly because of the nose bleeds..(couldn't put my head down to roll etc.,). and will finish that too now I am recovered.
> I hope this email arrives correctly to the group... If I don't see it I will know... it didn't and try again.
> P.S. sorry if you receive this email twice.. but decided maybe I should have written to the web post and not 'reply to group'... please correct me if I have done the wrong thing.
>
> I don't know the secret to success but the secret to failure is trying to please everybody.
> hugsalot Judi
>
> --- In AussieFeltmakers@..., "Sandken" <gordon1963@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Wendy
> >
> >
> >
> > I say just go for it - no matter if 4 or 40 those involved will still enjoy
> > it!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Also I think if you keep doing swaps they keep happening and then when
> > people are in a position to have the time, they ar able to join in!
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't think it is that people aren't interested, I just think peoples
> > lives are just so hectic!
> >
> >
> >
> > Many thanks for organising the swaps, I have my bundles from my fibre swap
> > and they are beautiful. I am sure that some of our members thought "I really
> > don't need anymore fibre!!" Well I really don't but I like getting things
> > that other people choose for me, as often they are colours or fibres that I
> > wouldn't normally gravitate towards and it adds some zest to my Feltmaking!
> >
> >
> >
> > Take care
> >
> >
> >
> > Sandie :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Anyone who thinks they are too small to make a difference hasn't spent the
> > night with a flea in their bed!"
> >
> > www.SandieO.com.au
> >
>
>
>
>
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I am relatively new to the group and you have asked a lot of questions I had been thinking!
Good luck with your projects...I sew, spin, weave crotchet, and knit, as well as make felt....anything textiles really. Don't specialise - although sewing seems to work into all the other activities..... and am a hobbyist, not producing work commercially.
I am a Qld-er, but have lived in many parts of the world since I left the north in the early 1980s.
Regards
Lexi
Lexi Kellam
Carlingford, Sydney
> To: AussieFeltmakers@...
> From: judihoward@...
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:40:15 +0000
> Subject: [AussieFeltmakers] Re: Last call for Christmas swap
>
> Hi everyone
> My name is Judi and I live in Surfers Paradise ....Gold Coast... Qld...
> I did introduce myself some time ago...
> I am interested in 'doing a swap".... not now... but next year... I think it's a wonderful idea.
> My questions are:-
> The fibre swap sounds marvellous.... how does one know how much to send?... did you agree on a weight for instance?....
> I have read folk saying they loved what they received.... but... I would love more descriptions of the fibres one sends and one receives.... so I can have an idea how to join in next time....and start collecting.
> A few months ago I joined a marvellous group named Gold Coast Creative Textiles Group here on the Gold Coast...
> we meet at Broadbeach Library..
> I just can't tell you how much I enjoy and look forward to those monthly saturdays... everyone is so talented and happily share freely...
> So.... I am getting into the fibres now...and want to do more.
> The swapping of work I have already participated in a Mosaics Group to which I belong.... last year it was a 'shoe swap'....
> yep... a mosaiced shoe.... We are an international group and what fun!.... I received a mosaiced clog from a girl in America and I had to send mine to a girl in Canada.......
> We didn't know who we were going to swap with... because it was not an even exchange... and I am guessing that's how you have planned yours too.......you are told who you are sending your parcel to...
> We had to make our mosaiced shoe and send an email to the lady who was organising... and then she would send you the details where to send.... and then you waited for someone to finish theirs and on it went........ so noone knew when or from where the surprise package would arrive.......
> I can't put pictures on this email... as I could send you pics... if I knew how you would receive them.
> My felting effort has not been much yet..... I have started and almose finished a needle felted mermaid... which I have hanging on a tree but need to finish..... (that story was I had severed nose bleeds for four months and treatment so couldn't trust my nose wouldn't bleed to work on it). Previous to the mermaid... my first effort was a nuno felted scarf.... which I love very much.... and the thrid effort was a wet felted flower done at the GCCT Group but couldn't do it properly because of the nose bleeds..(couldn't put my head down to roll etc.,). and will finish that too now I am recovered.
> I hope this email arrives correctly to the group... If I don't see it I will know... it didn't and try again.
> P.S. sorry if you receive this email twice.. but decided maybe I should have written to the web post and not 'reply to group'... please correct me if I have done the wrong thing.
>
> I don't know the secret to success but the secret to failure is trying to please everybody.
> hugsalot Judi
>
> --- In AussieFeltmakers@..., "Sandken" <gordon1963@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Wendy
> >
> >
> >
> > I say just go for it - no matter if 4 or 40 those involved will still enjoy
> > it!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Also I think if you keep doing swaps they keep happening and then when
> > people are in a position to have the time, they ar able to join in!
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't think it is that people aren't interested, I just think peoples
> > lives are just so hectic!
> >
> >
> >
> > Many thanks for organising the swaps, I have my bundles from my fibre swap
> > and they are beautiful. I am sure that some of our members thought "I really
> > don't need anymore fibre!!" Well I really don't but I like getting things
> > that other people choose for me, as often they are colours or fibres that I
> > wouldn't normally gravitate towards and it adds some zest to my Feltmaking!
> >
> >
> >
> > Take care
> >
> >
> >
> > Sandie :-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Anyone who thinks they are too small to make a difference hasn't spent the
> > night with a flea in their bed!"
> >
> > www.SandieO.com.au
> >
>
>
>
>
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