Tag Archives: Needle felting

July 10, 2016 · 3:37 pm

Final Pear Update

It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally summing up the Great Pear Experience. Over May and June I taught four workshops, one of which was for the staff at the Beehive Wool Shop. Pears are fun… I’m not sure I ever want to make another one again, but I sure enjoyed the process. This was the first workshop I’ve taught where the focus was more on shading the object over building the shape. It was so pleasing to see people’s interpretations.

Before I show pictures of the all of the pears, here is a bowl that I started before the workshops so that I would have something to hold them. This is the start of it – it was different in each class as I continued to work on it. It still isn’t complete, but you’ll see the process/progress through the pictures.

The bowl in the beginning

First Workshop

Second Workshop

Staff Workshop

Final Workshop

Table For Class

Thanks to everyone who participated – you were all a lot of fun!

The World Loves a Pear

If you are hoping to take a pear workshop, another one has been added on June 11th. There will be fluffy felted pears all over town 😀.

The first pear workshop was last Saturday, and we had a lot of fun. It was a great group, and they produced some amazing pears. I’m looking forward to this Saturday’s class! See sign up details for the class on the 11th on the Classes page.

Needle felted pears

Mmmm… Pears

It’s time for another workshop! On May 28th I’ll be teaching a workshop on how to make needle-felted pears at the Beehive Wool Shop. The shape is not too difficult, so we should be able to spend a little extra time layering fibres to produce shading. Pears have so many amazing colours and shapes – I’m really looking forward to this class! Space is limited, so contact the Beehive Wool Shop to reserve a spot.

Needle felted pears

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November 22, 2015 · 8:59 pm

Let it snow!

On November 14th (I can’t believe a week has gone by already!) I taught a class at the Beehive Wool Shop on needle felted snowmen. We had a lot of fun, many laughs, and some very pleasing snowmen were created.

Snowman Table Decor

There will be another workshop coming up on December 5th – we’ll be making needle felted ornaments. Space is limited, so phone the Beehive to sign up!

Christmas ornament

I Procrastinate Therefore I Am…

I am all about the procrastination… anyone else the same? I’ve been procrastinating writing about my finished needle felting because the pictures weren’t adequate. Have I taken new pictures? Not yet, but now I’m procrastinating on a different matter, so I’m writing about needle felting.

My last post was about a day of wet/Nuno felting. I did one test strip, two larger pieces, and worked on a sample I had previously needle felted. The one piece that I have completed from that day was for the annual art show at my office. Although the piece has sold, I’m hoping to take it out for an artsy photo shoot before it goes to its new home.

On that note, here is a question for fibre artists – what sort of tricks do you have to photograph your work? I have been having a lot of trouble getting a true colour image, as well as an image that has any sort of depth. I have tried photographing at different times of day, with direct and indirect sunlight, as well as in fluorescent lighting.

Here is the progression of “Chimerical”: