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So many laughs!

Posted by kenleighacres on July 16, 2012
Posted in: Felting, Fiber. Tagged: , , , , . 10 Comments

When you combine a bunch of fun ladies with a full day of felting, you are bound to have a day full of laughs 🙂

That is exactly what we did on Friday!  I taught a nuno felt tank top class and it was a blast.

Kelly and Lauren are measuring out the silk fabric for their shirts.

The laughs really started when we held up and they tried on the silk ‘shirts’.  We had to account for the shrinkage of the wool, but wrapping our heads around why they were THIS big was funny.  I assured them it would be ok!

Coleen volunteered to be the seamstress…or maybe she just sat down in the chair first 😉  She was hard at work…

or maybe that was hardly working!

Next, it was time to lay out the fiber.

We were crammed into every corner of my shop.  We were hoping to be outside and enjoy the sunshine, but it was too windy and it would have been disasterous…fiber everywhere!

I missed getting pictures of wetting down the projects, but it was probably because I was laughing at the comments flying around.  My favorite of the day was ‘who jacked my shower curtain?’ said in total seriousness 🙂  We used sheer shower curtains to lay over the fiber and wet it down.  This holds the fiber in place while it allows the water to soak through.

 Next came the rolling.  Some was done by hand…

and other’s were done by the rolling machines that a couple of ladies brought.

 

No matter what technique was used, the results were beautiful!  Here is Lauren modeling her shirt…

and Sharon with her’s.  Sharon was a real trooper…this was her first felting experience.  She really jumped in the deep end with this project!

 I didn’t get pictures of the rest, but they were just as fabulous!

My first class!

Posted by kenleighacres on March 1, 2009
Posted in: Felt Scarf, felted birds, Felting, Fiber. Tagged: . 7 Comments

I had my first class in my new fiber studio today.  I am calling it my guinea pig class, lol.  It was a test class to work out all of the kinks!  It was a lot of fun.  My students were my mom, my sister, my grandma, my sister-in-law, my soon to be sister-in-law, a friend and her daughter.  There were a lot of laughs and a few tears (felting needles hurt a lot when you stick yourself).  There were multiple projects being worked on…

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My mom and grandma made 3D felted birds, several people worked on needle felted wall hangings, and my soon to be sister-in-law, Patricia made a wet felted scarf.  They all did a fabulous job!

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As I said, there were a lot of laughs and here is a picture of my mom looking shocked that her lump of wool was actually looking like a bird 🙂

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Aimee and her daughter, Hailey, were instant felting pros.

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All of the fun and hard work wore poor Paisley out and she spent most of the day on the bed 🙂 

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Here is Patricia holding up her beautiful scarf.

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Here’s Hailey with her adorable needle felted cat.

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My grandma’s bird is going to hang in her window and warn all of the little birdies outside to not fly into the window.

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Julie didn’t finish hers, but she needle felted a background that had a watercolor feel to it.

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She is going to needle felt the word ‘Dream’ on it.  I can’t wait to see the finished piece!

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My mom with her darling bird.

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and the shocker was Aimee and her Rooster

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I love the details and I never would have thought to outline the feathers with blue. 

I’m not sure how she managed it, but my sister didn’t get in any of the pictures.  She worked on a wall hanging with a whimsical goat, sheep, and cow on it.  I will have her send me a picture once she has finished it! 

My first ‘real’ class is next Saturday and I am really excited about it. 

Thanks to my mom, I now have the perfect sign for my studio –

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