I don't think that proviso should deter anyone Krishna.......the other point to mention is that if Life DOES get in the way,all a member needs to do is post a message to that effect and keep talking with the group;
They dont need to think people will think badly of them if they are upfront and say "things are difficult"
I'd LOVE to participate, but at the moment my DH has just gone into Palliative care and most of my waking moments are spent keeping him company.
Good luck with the swap.
Maureen in Woody Point
Mark & Krishna Ellis <mkellis@...> wrote:
Ok, I will take the plunge. Good morning to you all. I hope everyone is well, enjoying the fine weather and felting like mad.
I finally got brave and held my first felting workshop yesterday, it went really well, except I completely underestimated the time it would take. Lucky I had told the students when they booked that it might take longer. But they all went home
happy with a wet felted bag. I have put some photos on the aussiefeltmakers yahoo site.
Now to interesting business. I haven’t organised a swap before but I am happy to give it ago. I thought maybe a Xmas decoration swap, that gives us plenty of time to get ready. Everyone will post their decorations to me and I will swap them around and post them out to all participants. Depending on how many sign up , will dictate how many we make each.
Let me know if you want to be in it. I will work out a date for the items to be with me, probably Oct 31st and guidelines.
Now, I will say this, not to be mean or upset anyone. I perfectly
understand that life gets in the way of the best intentions. Please don’t sign up if you can’t meet the commitment, it lets everyone else down. Having said that no-one will sign up now, will they? LOL
Thankyou for your reply, so far you and me
swapping with each other. LOL I am sure I will hear from our other lovely felters.
I still have a blogspot and I have actually been updating it. Yah. The address
is below.
Hi Krishna,
I will be in the Christmas swap. I am doing a frame
for my atc's and the last swap with the felters. It
takes me awhile to get organised!!! Do you still have
a blog? Meg
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Ok, I will take the plunge. Good morning to you all. I hope
everyone is well, enjoying the fine weather and felting like mad.
I finally got brave and held my first felting workshop yesterday,
it went really well, except I completely underestimated the time it would take.
Lucky I had told the students when they booked that it might take longer. But
they all went home happy with a wet felted bag. I have put some photos on the aussiefeltmakers
yahoo site.
Now to interesting business. I haven’t organised a
swap before but I am happy to give it ago. I thought maybe a Xmas decoration swap,
that gives us plenty of time to get ready. Everyone will post their decorations
to me and I will swap them around and post them out to all participants.
Depending on how many sign up , will dictate how many we make each.
Let me know if you want to be in it. I will work out a date
for the items to be with me, probably Oct 31st and guidelines.
Now, I will say this, not to be mean or upset anyone. I
perfectly understand that life gets in the way of the best intentions. Please
don’t sign up if you can’t meet the commitment, it lets everyone
else down. Having said that no-one will sign up now, will they? LOL
Hi ,
Like you said Sandie and Barb buying what you "need'
not what you want has been a thorny question for
years I think we all know about
it :) . My daughter keeps saying "if anything happens
to you Mum" Well, I tell her it's all yours dear!!
Thank you Julie for thinking about me! Saturday and
Sunday was so wild I kept thinking any minute there
will be a polar bear or penguins on the verandah!!
Such strong winds. Twisted street signs and branches
from the trees. WOW!! I wonder how the little birds
survive it all. I actually did another scarf with the
silk hankies but do you put wool on both sides?
Getting it to hang together plus all the other goodies
was hard. Have fun
at the workshop Julie. Meg
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When you posted that you would get out the paints, it reminded me of a retreat that we had over here in the West, when we were in a class that was for colour play. Everyone had to do designs with Pastels on paper, then create the same in felt. It was a great workshop, and lots of lovely colourful ideas came forth. Maybe that would prove inspirational for you.
Raining and windy and cold over here - always think of Meg down there in Augusta, who experiences it about 3 degrees cooler than up here.
Cheers
Julie Williams
Jaruleeli FeltART
Perth, Western Australia, who cannot wait for the Fiona Wright workshop this Friday and Saturday coming (got the days off especially for it, too).
Julie Williams
Jaruleeli FeltART
Felting My Way Around The World
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Oh Sandy, I do understand. I got it from my grown kids & husband. One of
my daughters was trained as a dressmaker too. I simply told them, with
my head held High that it's a Tool, to make my work easier, to improve
my variety of skills, was very versatile what could be done with it. &
that it was none of their business what I paid for it. Mind you, on that
note, I didn't get the Babylock, only 'cos I couldn't afford it as I
knew that we were obligated to go to the UK for our daughter's wedding
reception! I had explained, over many years, that I was acquiring the
necessary tools whilst working, that I would need in my retirement :) In
other words, I don't tell them what to do with their money, they can
MTOB about mine.
I do hope you have a great time despite the probable lecture. My trick
is to get in first & agree with them what I know that they will say,
therefore taking the wind out of their sails. ( still didn't say how
much I paid, except that it was on a great special & that I'm so looking
forward to using it. You can always suggest that if she's going to make
life a pain for the day, that perhaps she might be happier staying at
home, as You are going to enjoy yourself anyway!
Have fun playing with it. I'm sure you'll put it to good use. We all
have to grow and change with our craft. Just think of all the famous
artists in life and how their work moved on and changed over their life.
Best Wishes for a lovely day & wonderful weather.
Love BarbM
Hi Wendy
I am finding it quite good and having a lot of fun!!! Just gathering a bit
more info and will send a review if you like.
Taking my Mum to the craft show today, have to survive that first!!! What
are you buying that for? that's too expensive!!! you dont need that!!!!
Should be fun
will try and put the info together for you when I get back!
Cheers
Sandie
That's great, house painting can be sooo boring, thank goodness I
can't do it anymore. It's good to try something different isn't it? I
did manage to sand down the ends of a cot for my daughter last week. I
bought a top of the range one 2nd hand locally very reasonably :). My
husband, who's a builder btw, estapolled it, as I guess he wanted to
make sure it was right :-D
I'm about to tootle down the street on the red devil ( mobility
scooter). Tried driving, but craning my neck to get out of our street -
it's a v sharp angle- & reversing out of parking is still iffy, but
getting better every day. I've tootled down a few times now, so am
getting quite experienced. talk about rock'n'roll. You have to lean the
opposite way that it rolls, unlike on a bike. All hats off to the golden
oldies who have a go.
Not much time for felting though, as it takes 1/2 hour to get down to
the shops. Lots of interesting things to see , so I should use it as
ideas time eh? I'm thinking of a wall hanging in primitive stylised look
of me flying down the hills, rugged up for the Antarctic (Might have to
machine embroider the details, though, which I only do freehand, as I
don't have an embroidery machine. I'm getting better at using the
embellishing machine for detail, but it's harder to see very fine
things & easy to overdo it- causing a hole. The joys of mixed media & no
rules though, in our work. :-)
We have a very pretty town here, rolling hills everywhere, with lovely
gardens and street trees. Even the roundabouts and divided areas of the
main Northern street are landscaped. Mostly with low growing &
constantly groomed shrubbery. In a way, I'll be sorry to be back in the
car again. Unfortunately, it's too hilly & too far for me to walk into
town. I generally walk on the walking track or around the centre of town
where it's flatter. My favourite walking track near here has woodland,
wetland and some open areas. It goes for about 10km if one does the
whole circuit, over a couple of roads & under the railway bridge. On the
way there are a couple of playgrounds & picnic areas. Lots of things for
inspiration, when I remember to take a camera. There are so many
different trees & ducks, fungi, etc., as well as people walking, riding,
jogging, strolling with bubs & dogs. We are so fortunate.
Now the weather is warming again, I shall get back on it , although I
have to drive or tootle there in the first place as it's too steep for
me to get up the street at this end & back up the street at the other end.
Tomorrow, if it's fine again, I'm going outside to do some needle
felting. Have to finish the boots. & get on with the portrait. I'd
better make some prefelts for it tonight, if I can stay awake. Due to
the meds, I tend to sleep for a couple of hours in my recliner. the TV
is great for that.
Happy felting all of you. I'm a bit envious of all the galleries,
courses and markets, fetes that you are attending. I'd love to have the
energy & money to do it all. Congratulations to all who have exhibited
and especially to you Wendy, for winning at the beanie competition. I'd
love to go up there one day & have a look at it.
Here's to inspiration available to all of you + wellness of mind, body &
spirit
BarbM
Feeling better today, thanks. Spent yesterday painting a
canvas purple with yellow lilies, not too bad. Think I will reproduce it as a
nuno felted scarf and as a piece of felt. Love the colour combination.
Even updated the etsy shop and blog spot. I am a bit
hopeless at keeping these thing up to date.
Just doing some browsing on ebay, someone is selling a
Janome embellisher if any one wants to see what they look like.
Hi Krishna,
I understand just how it is, believe me. Good on you with the chocolate,
I find that if I have the urge, that if I buy at 70% or 80% I can get
away with only eating one or two pieces. It's an indulgence that I'll
only give into about 4 x year now, however. Like you, I battle with my
head & emotional eating.
Now I'm managing to take the bottle of water, come up to this room & do
something, even if it's surf for visual delights of craft. I have some
books on other crafts, rugmaking, colour work with embroidery, stump
work + heaps of machine embroidery mags & some books. Even gardening
mags can inspire thoughts. Good on you for getting out the canvas &
having a go at painting. I used to do a lot of silk painting, which can
be so much like water colours.
I've cleared the decks & hope to start a bit of wet felting again next
week, now that I've got my dreaded paperwork sorted out. Pat I've used
some of your batts, & shall finish the boots this weekend. Hubby's gone
fishing :-) . My body is slowly improving, so a little at a time will be
the way to go. I have always battled with finishing items, ADS I guess.
That's why I loved silk painting and adore felting. The results can be
so immediate, certainly quicker than many other things. I love the
variety of the medium. Many times, however, I've been stumped for ages,
having been bogged down with other things.
As Sandie says, just play. If nothing else, make up some pieces of
pre-felt, perhaps hand card or handmix some colours together. You could
try making a landscape by just adding prefelt pieces or needle felt -
not with any picture in mind, just let it happen. This is what we did
with Brigitte Krag-Hansen, it was great.
best wishes, & thankyou for keeping this site going
Barb Mewburn
-----Original Message----- From: AussieFeltmakers@... [mailto:AussieFeltmakers@...] On Behalf Of Ardione Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:17 AM To: AussieFeltmakers@... Subject: Re: [AussieFeltmakers] Fiona Wright website
Hi Wendy,
I can't fine the video link on the website. Can you give me a clue. I would love to take a look.
Congrats on the special mention for your beanie. I had a look on the Beanie Festival competition video on the website - your hat is wonderful.
Let us know how you get on with the felting machine - was it the same one they had at the Convergence?
Wendy
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Hi All
Just received a nice cheque in the mail from Alice Springs. Got my act together this year and sent 4 felt beanies, 2 for the competition, didn't win but got a special mention in the felt section, and 2 for the general sales. All four sold.
They had 4790 beanies for sale and sold 3150 for $103,500 as well as 100 of the hats entered in the competition for $10,000. Not bad hey!
The letter says there will be changes to the festival next year so keep an eye on their web site.
Congratulations Wendy Burgess on your two RAS wins in the felt article/garment and in the hand felted sculpture, rug.
Still haven't had time to play with my new felting machine that I took delivery of at Bendigo, soon I hope.
Pat M.
www.highlandfelting.com
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I tried out the Babylock embellisher at the Stitches and Craft Show yesterday. It has 7 needles instead of the 5 that most embellishers have, and you can take out 4 needles to have a thin straight line of 3 needles for fine embellishing. It attached a piece of silk to a piece of hand made felt in about 30 seconds.
I was very impressed - but there is no way I can afford a $1300 machine. :-(
I may be at their meeting tomorrow. I'll see if they have any for sale.
Wendy
-----Original Message----- From: AussieFeltmakers@... [mailto:AussieFeltmakers@...] On Behalf Of Pat & Ken MIller Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 8:50 AM To: AussieFeltmakers@... Subject: RE: [AussieFeltmakers] Re: Feltmaking books that I own.
Hi All
I belive that Joan Fisher is a member of The NSW Spinners & Weavers. I bought her book direct from her some years ago. I was also able to buy some wholesale for resale from her, very nice lady to deal with.
Krishna, I some times get like this but what I do is have a look thought some books or at some web sites or I have made over the years an inspiration book of pictures I have picked up from magazines, over the web or my own ideas that I have marked down when thinking of them.lol
I carry a note book in my bag and another in my house to jot down ideas as they come.
On another note, I was ordering fibre from first editions and they said Virginia farms gets their white merino from another place not them only the solid colour's and silk mix come from them.
He also said that it is thought that the tops in spotlight are in fact theirs! The only thing is they are NOT the ones selling it to spotlight!
Just a little bit of gossip for you all.
I am in the process of setting up a DIY website with shop front/cart to sell hand dye random colour merino, alpaca, silk and angora from my own flock, a little bit will be offered natural and the items I make both fibre art, digital art and paper crafts. I will not be going into solid colour's as I feel there are already many great folk doing this.
Next is another lovely person I order from this week, who has the web site (ewe give me the knits), Mandie was very fast and helpful in postage as well as having good prices and a nice range of things to buy.I bought a lot of landscape dyes from her @10.45 per jar of 100g, I don't know if this is good or not buy it sounded ok.
Subject: RE: [AussieFeltmakers] Re: Feltmaking books that I own.
Hi Krishna
Have you tried Amazon.com for the book of Joan Fisher's? Worth a try, I think. I get most of mine through that web site and they are quite inexpensive, even with the freight and exhange rate.
All the best
Julie Williams
Jaruleeli FeltART
Perth, Western Australia
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Arts Out West (NSW) sends practicing artist to small country schools to show them the work they do and teach a workshop. Time is limited, just 2 hours and ages will be varied. This year I went to Lagoon School, about 45klms from Oberon, there are 17 students in the school. The challenge is to come up with a workshop that is suitable for all the students.
I had them cover a foam egg with to layers of felting batt, black for the inside, coloured for the outside, wrap with wool yarn then dip in soapy water and felt. After they were fully felted we cut open the top and removed the egg. Finished with 15 minutes to spare. The students were the nicest bunch and all really enjoyed the class. I left them with ideas how they could add embellishments. All the projects from all the small schools are then shown at a venue in Bathurst.
My next class is near Mudgee next Monday where I will teach 15 women how to needle felt hats.
Its just over a 2 hour drive from here. A friend who is writing a book will go with me and do research at the library while I teach, then we will stay over and return the next day.
In between I hope to get 60 batts made and shipped by next Friday.
Girls, you are fantastic, thanks for the
advice re Joan’s book and the lack of motivation.
I have decided to ignore the mess, play on
the computer, and I have the paints out. Never painted a canvas before in my
life, how hard can it be? LOL.Oh, and I have put the block of chocolate away.
I belive that Joan Fisher is a member of The NSW Spinners & Weavers. I bought her book direct from her some years ago. I was also able to buy some wholesale for resale from her, very nice lady to deal with.
Have you tried Amazon.com for the book of Joan Fisher's? Worth a try, I think. I get most of mine through that web site and they are quite inexpensive, even with the freight and exhange rate.
All the best
Julie Williams
Jaruleeli FeltART
Perth, Western Australia
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Surfing the net looking at handmade felt often works for me, handmade pottery site and painting will also trigger ideas and get my Muse up and going again. She does seem to get lazy at times.
Hi Krishna,
I never used to have this problem but for the past few years it has reared
its ugly head. For me it happens when there is information overload, you
know getting the kids organised, running around organising our household,
working blah, blah, blah, blah blah!!! I find my creativity gets put on the
back curner and for me that creates huge blockages!!
It has taken me a little while to find what works for me but now I play, I
dont have any deadlines, no goal of what I am making, no expectations (not
even that this will solve the uncreative frump!) just pick up some fibre
and fiddle. Sometimes they end up being works of art, other times they are
scribbles but if I keep making space to do that I find suddenly my mind is
full of ideas (sometimes too much!!!)
If I have been felting a lot I sometimes have to pick up and play with some
other medium.
Hope you are feeling a little less flat soon!!
Enjoy your weekend!
Sandie :-)
Congrats on the special mention for your beanie. I had a look on the Beanie Festival competition video on the website - your hat is wonderful.
Let us know how you get on with the felting machine - was it the same one they had at the Convergence?
Wendy
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Hi All
Just received a nice cheque in the mail from Alice Springs. Got my act together this year and sent 4 felt beanies, 2 for the competition, didn't win but got a special mention in the felt section, and 2 for the general sales. All four sold.
They had 4790 beanies for sale and sold 3150 for $103,500 as well as 100 of the hats entered in the competition for $10,000. Not bad hey!
The letter says there will be changes to the festival next year so keep an eye on their web site.
Congratulations Wendy Burgess on your two RAS wins in the felt article/garment and in the hand felted sculpture, rug.
Still haven't had time to play with my new felting machine that I took delivery of at Bendigo, soon I hope.
Pat M.
www.highlandfelting.com
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Hi all
As today is our trading day, just wanted to let you know if anyone is interested I can get embellishers for a good price around 400 dollars.
They are a 5 needle machine, 5 hole plate, safety guard, adjustable height, individual needles are replaceable and they are around $1.25 per needle. 1000 spm.
They are a Merrylock and my demo one has arrived today so I will let you know how it goes.
Congrats on the special mention for your beanie. I had a look on the Beanie Festival competition video on the website - your hat is wonderful.
Let us know how you get on with the felting machine - was it the same one they had at the Convergence?
Wendy
-----Original Message----- From: AussieFeltmakers@... [mailto:AussieFeltmakers@...] On Behalf Of Pat & Ken MIller Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:40 PM To: AussieFeltmakers@... Subject: Re: [AussieFeltmakers] Fiona Wright website
Hi All
Just received a nice cheque in the mail from Alice Springs. Got my act together this year and sent 4 felt beanies, 2 for the competition, didn't win but got a special mention in the felt section, and 2 for the general sales. All four sold.
They had 4790 beanies for sale and sold 3150 for $103,500 as well as 100 of the hats entered in the competition for $10,000. Not bad hey!
The letter says there will be changes to the festival next year so keep an eye on their web site.
Congratulations Wendy Burgess on your two RAS wins in the felt article/garment and in the hand felted sculpture, rug.
Still haven't had time to play with my new felting machine that I took delivery of at Bendigo, soon I hope.
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