Mary at the taster session laying the basis for her picture
Gisela at the taster session laying the basis of her picture
Moira and Debbie laying their picture basis
everybody at the taster session who did a piece of flat needle felt for the 4 elements circle
Gisela and a participant of the card making group at taster session
Laryna's woolly gnomies are VERY photogenic!
the gnomies like the sun flowers
3 little gnomies
close up of rainbow fairie
what and who was that?
Mary needle felting her window
Gisela's sheep (the wet felt picture)
fire and water needlefelted (Moira's)
air needle felted (Debbie's)
Mary's window is progressing
all four now in the 4 elements circle
Mary's wet felted picture
Debbie's wet felted picture?
Moira's wetfelted picture?
Now we are the first class: one group needle felting a round ball
Alex needle felting the beginnng of the ball
Kevin beginning his needlefelted ball
the whole group of new comers, Kevin, Alex, Farah and Marion, needling away
Flora teaching Debbie how to felt round a stone
that is the outcome
from Mary and Moira, too
Debbie's teapot
Farrah practising flat needlefelt design
Alex is needling straight onto her ball
Farrah and Marion decorating their ball
Kevin practising his needlefelting design on flat surface piece first
the needlefelters
the whole big group of 7 - with Flora and Anneruth - on this first session
Kevins' fireball taking shape
Marion's ball in festive dress
Farrah's ball 'dressed up'
Alex's ball in decor
Mary managed quite a few balls for a bracelt at end of session still!
the needle felting group as a whole
preparations for class 2: a sun in progress as part of the sun, moon and stars mobile Anneruth made with onion skin dyed wool for the sun
the 'wrong side' of the sun: rough and flat, as it will be flat against the wall
the felted sheet for the star cut outs: birch leave dyed wool (on white basis) and covered with silk fibres
back of sheet
cut out felt stars
the face of the sun gets shaped
at class 2: Alex today taking on a turn at basic wetfelting
whilst Debbie and Mary try her hands on sculptura;l felt
close up faces of the finished sun,moon and stars mobile
Mary's sculptured face in progress
a green man's face in the making
action table
Alex's picture is finished and gets hang up.on pully to try
Debbie'ssun in progress!
a motly collection of sculptural felts
brainstormng 'WHOLENESS' theme for the wallhanging...
the snippets are there
the words we collected as to what wholeness means for us; arranged as we chose them to be placed in the whole
the layering of our first sheet of 'stone felt' for the round portal is getting done
Natalie and Debbie layering the wool for the stone felt
and Flora
lots of fine natural colours
soap is being applied through the bubble rub and the fibres are being settled
Mary's vision of the Portal hanging
Alex's
Lucia's
Alejandro's
Anna's
Sarah-Jane
Lynsey
?
sizing and drawing the outline design of the stone-felt portal
whilst Alejandro felts a spider
and his sister the sunny Spanish flag
Alison came to Galgael the next day to arrange the felt stone slate arch
whilst Sarah-Jane felted the sheet for the stone-slabs the arches sides
using wool noils for texture
and called on Eugene for some muscke work in the fulling process
hard work!
At last:: seemless bag making time
for some it was their first felting experience!
all are doing well
meanwhile Flora is shaping more of the stone slabs
the next day, at Galgael again, the lengthy process of making the bags is sucessfully completed
the other Alison's (the story teller) bag
and the round pouch of Anna
pink inside
Clemy's and Alex's bags
closing loop of crocheted and felted handspun wool
Anneruth's demo bag, with the Shetland wool, here now finished with the duffle closure
that felted button needs a stem fitting
the loop got needle felted onto the lid and thus created a shadow on the top
which now needs to be covered wiht needlefelt
another button option: attempted knot work button
from the back
Flora showing ways how to make branches with wires
hm: how are we going to arrange the hills and things? so many choices from the drawings...
well, how about like this?
hills appearing!
Ali laying and needling the hill-contours to the fragile prefelt base
Flora stuffing the tree
adding featues to the tree
Alex needling buttons for her bag!
one rose button done!
firming up again the felt slabs
cutting the last piece of stone felt
and fitting it all together
does the arch still fit?
needlefelting butterflies and branches for the tree
the seamstress is in action: sewing the stone pieces together
layers of green for the leave felt
Mary's masterpiece in progress: the Hebridean landscape from the postcard of her little friend
The cushion cover to be... isn't it like an impressionist painting!
pieces progressing: butterflies, birds, and branches...
Debbie got some blue velvet material to frame her felt cushion cover
lots of action today! Including Steven filming us..
sewing the stonefelts by hand where needed
Anna and Alison felting the cords for their bags
Anna's bag
Alex making her cushion cover and Moya a picture for her daughter
the magical meadow with meandering stream is ready for the wet stage, too
Moya's picture after the wet fulling stage
Alex's cushion cover ready for the wet felting stage
fulling action with the feet now for Alex's cushion cover
and now off home for to dry and sew it!
Ali and Anna having fun to stiffen the stone felt arch
with hair dryers, too
the double frame is up!
here it is close up
just as well there is some warm wind coming from the dryers: it is so cold now in the workshop!
the tree is waiting to be put up!
and all the other little things..
Debbie's cushion cover
the arch is now tied to the bamboo frame
bamboo frame maker Luis stiffening the top of the picture felt
Mary embellished her cushion cover with fine needlefelted features
the back cloth is ready to be sewn
discussing how to position the tree
Ali's magic hand puts it into place (action photo!)
last touches to fit it for best tree view loss of autumn coloured hills, though
fixing tree to stonefelt arch at last!
whilst Luis is sewing back banner to frame
and Anna is cutting autumn leaves
Tam stiffening the back of the picture felt
needle felting an eagle for the portal picture (hands flying as you can see or not see!)
Mary's cushion cover getting sewn
the hanging cord getting plaited by Naomi - with the precious boat-craft twine!
and stitched onto the top canes
and here at last: our felt portal is leaving Galgael
methinks we are kind of sorry to see it go...?
all smiles, but!
ready for the transport on the truck
oops - it's sliding on its 'making-board'
lets put it into the sun...
for a last photo grace in Fairley Street
well, and there it lays now on the truck...
good bye...
covered up and ready to go
the interactive felt details mounted on felt board
at the Portal the display is being set up now
Jim's cartoons
here it is: the interactive felt portal
at night at the launch of the exhibition: watching a film on mental health
with the felt portal in the background
one of Gisela's pottery art pieces
and another one
Gehan looking through the Felt Portal booklet
also Ali and friend
the coach house trust film
the cards Alex's group did
'our round felt table'
the felt portal now with most details fitted - for the moment by the guests of the evening
and here are the proud makers!
welldone everyone! (also those who have not been here tonight!)
