Saturday Felting 19 May, 2018. Mini Workshop by Dale Rollerson – silk strippings and silk rods. Dale Rollerson of The Thread Studio ran a mini-workshop/demo of silk strippings and silk rods. They are both waste product in the process of spinning silk. Silk strippings – is cocoon waste that cannot be spun. It still contains […]
Saturday Felting 21 April, 2018. Mini Workshop by Nancy Ballesteros – 9 different ways to layout felt. Nancy provided a number of charts as a visual example of the layouts, to show direction of laying. The dots and an arrows to show the direction of laying. The denser end of the wool will be at […]
12 Feltwest members attended this workshop, where we got to use leather tools and materials that most felters were not familiar with. The purpose of the workshop was to cut and attach leather fittings and hardware to make the piece of very strong felt into a useable bag. Participants were required to bring a piece […]
Feltwest participated the Wagin Woolarama this year for the first time in many years. Woolarama is one of the biggest agricultural shows in WA, attracting people from throughout the south west and Perth and took place over two days on 9th and 10th March. Feltwest had a 3x3m display where we were able to: Demonstrate […]
Mini workshop “Fantasy flowers by Sara Quail was the theme for our mini – workshop at the March meeting. With around 40 members in attendance, she demonstrated how to create a variety of flower shapes using a small round resist and directional fulling techniques. Sara showed us ways to layout the wool and how to […]
