Good afternoon to you all
Last week, I went to a FeltWEST Toss and Tell day in Menora, which is in Perth. I had a three day weekend off, and since it fell on the third Saturday of the month, when the Toss and Tell days are conducted, I felt that I could at last go. I haven't been all year, and I enjoyed the day.
I made another wall hanging, mainly reds, blacks and I am embellishing it with a gold stitch. It is very very fine, which is how I like to make my felt, backed with silk chiffon which I had dyed in a tomato red about this time last year. I knew it would come in handy for something. I also had some bits of silk cocoons, and other silk products which all went into making the piece.
My daughter has also organised me to make a pair of leggings to go onto a pair of ugg boots, so I made the felt and am in the process of connecting the two. I once bought her a pair long ago, that another WA feltmaker had made, when I was just starting out on my feltmaking journey. I hope that they turn out, as I have not done that before, but then how hard can it be???
Coming up in the School Holidays, I will be taking a week off work, so that I can take my 15 year old granddaughter, Rushdinah, to Albany for a few days of Whale Watching. I really wanted to go to Monkey Mia and for us to swim with the Dolphins, but alas, all the accommodation was fully booked out, so had to re assess the plans.
Being 15, she cannot go anywhere without a mobile phone, but one rule that I have set is that the phone does not even come on the holiday with us. I have had her for a holiday before, since she got the phone, and it was glued to her ear for most of the time, so this time, big bag grandma has banned it.
Well, typing this is taking up good feltmaking time, so I should love and leave you all.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Felting in the countryside
When a fellow felter cried "Help", I decided that it was worth it to go on a trip out to the wheatbelt and visit Carol in Quairading and give her any help that she may need as a relatively new feltmaker.
We had a lovely time, even if it was a little cold in her studio, and her very sweet husband pandered to our every whim, by being a regular "gopher" and chief cook and bottlewasher. I stayed for a couple of nights with them, all the while creating our little samples and repairing some of her mistakes that she wanted corrected.
I even took an extra day off work so that my enjoyable time spent with Carol and Allan would not come to an end too quickly. I can see more visits there in the future. I used to live in the wheatbelt about 60kms from Quairading, so it was nice to be back in the lovely quiet peaceful surroundings near to where I spent the happy years whilst growing up.
Since coming back home, work has taken up a lot of my time, but I have managed to get in a little bit of felting in the meantime. Using some felt previously made (UFO's), I decided that it was worth doing some wall hangings. These were done mainly using my Huskystar Embellisher on two of them. Only one is pictured here, which I have titled Circles. The other image is a piece that I made after doing a workshop with Fiona Wright, using a piece of Shibori'd silk that was given to me whilst travelling in USA, by one of my many students that I taught in Brownfield, Maine.
We had a lovely time, even if it was a little cold in her studio, and her very sweet husband pandered to our every whim, by being a regular "gopher" and chief cook and bottlewasher. I stayed for a couple of nights with them, all the while creating our little samples and repairing some of her mistakes that she wanted corrected.
I even took an extra day off work so that my enjoyable time spent with Carol and Allan would not come to an end too quickly. I can see more visits there in the future. I used to live in the wheatbelt about 60kms from Quairading, so it was nice to be back in the lovely quiet peaceful surroundings near to where I spent the happy years whilst growing up.
Since coming back home, work has taken up a lot of my time, but I have managed to get in a little bit of felting in the meantime. Using some felt previously made (UFO's), I decided that it was worth doing some wall hangings. These were done mainly using my Huskystar Embellisher on two of them. Only one is pictured here, which I have titled Circles. The other image is a piece that I made after doing a workshop with Fiona Wright, using a piece of Shibori'd silk that was given to me whilst travelling in USA, by one of my many students that I taught in Brownfield, Maine.
Cheers
Jaruleeli (Julie)
Monday, March 31, 2008
Felting in Western Australia
Today I primarily played with my Huskystar Embellisher. I went through a lot of scraps of felt that I had previously made and decided to do some collages with it. Samples of felt fared no better. I am still deliberating on some of them, laying them out to decide whether or not they need to have something added to them or not.
It has been very interesting reading other blogs from likeminded people. I have some blogs in my list of favourites and I shall continue to visit them now and again.
I have yet to work out how to post some pictures on the blog.....however, until that time, it will remain with script only.
Happy times everyone
Julie
It has been very interesting reading other blogs from likeminded people. I have some blogs in my list of favourites and I shall continue to visit them now and again.
I have yet to work out how to post some pictures on the blog.....however, until that time, it will remain with script only.
Happy times everyone
Julie
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Introduction blog
Good Afternoon Everyone
It has been a while - almost 16 months since I returned from my epic journey around the world, carting with me, an extra bag containing a heap of goodies related to Feltmaking. Be it already felted, wool tops, soaps, templates, notes and a whole lot of memories of the various people that I visited, classes that I taught, classes that I took and learned from, sights that I saw along the way, and the heartfelt good wishes of the many friends that I had added to my network.
Since being away, I have now settled into a new job, trying two others before finally finding something that suited my needs, and have a small unit with a lovely small garden to care for (another of my passions), living not far from my parents, whom I tell everyone I take care of. Really......who am I kidding? It is them that take care of me!
In November last year, I had an unfortunate accident at work, breaking the 5th Metatarsil bone in my left foot. I was off work and my feet for a couple of weeks without so much as a plaster on my foot, so my parents waited on me hand and foot them, and also watered and cared for my little loved garden. Then, the Orthopedic Surgeon decided that I should be in a plaster and on crutches, so another 7 weeks of being off my foot as much as possible. In the meantime, my employers took pity on my bored state of mind, because I could not make my felt which took a lot of being on my feet, let me come back to work on light duties, installing me at a desk, gave me a phone and put my foot up on an upended trash can under the desk. I then continued to survey people by telephone and input data into the computer, did lots of filing that could be done sitting down, and in general, had all and sundry at my beck and call for drinks, food, etc (all except for when nature called.)
Now I am happily back at my normal duties at work, but due to the fact that my foot is still in the process of mending, I am only driving automatic vehicles and doing desk jobs. I now have a shoulder and arm that has been severley damaged by the use of crutches for such a period of time, and to that end, it is still weekly visits to the physio and monthly visits to the doctor.
BUT happily, I am back doing a little bit of feltmaking. I have a lot of prefelts, which I have begun to collate and make into wall hangings and collages. Photos will have to wait until I get them all done. I am busy with the sewing machine, embroidering some felts, adding some special touches. I did make a few Christmas tree decorations with my Huskystar Embellesher for a Christmas Exchange with the Aussiefeltmakers group, and on reading all the talk on blogs on the discussion group with feltmakers in USA, I decided that it is time to get the ball rolling with a blog myself.
;Cheers til next time
Jaruleeli (Julie)
It has been a while - almost 16 months since I returned from my epic journey around the world, carting with me, an extra bag containing a heap of goodies related to Feltmaking. Be it already felted, wool tops, soaps, templates, notes and a whole lot of memories of the various people that I visited, classes that I taught, classes that I took and learned from, sights that I saw along the way, and the heartfelt good wishes of the many friends that I had added to my network.
Since being away, I have now settled into a new job, trying two others before finally finding something that suited my needs, and have a small unit with a lovely small garden to care for (another of my passions), living not far from my parents, whom I tell everyone I take care of. Really......who am I kidding? It is them that take care of me!
In November last year, I had an unfortunate accident at work, breaking the 5th Metatarsil bone in my left foot. I was off work and my feet for a couple of weeks without so much as a plaster on my foot, so my parents waited on me hand and foot them, and also watered and cared for my little loved garden. Then, the Orthopedic Surgeon decided that I should be in a plaster and on crutches, so another 7 weeks of being off my foot as much as possible. In the meantime, my employers took pity on my bored state of mind, because I could not make my felt which took a lot of being on my feet, let me come back to work on light duties, installing me at a desk, gave me a phone and put my foot up on an upended trash can under the desk. I then continued to survey people by telephone and input data into the computer, did lots of filing that could be done sitting down, and in general, had all and sundry at my beck and call for drinks, food, etc (all except for when nature called.)
Now I am happily back at my normal duties at work, but due to the fact that my foot is still in the process of mending, I am only driving automatic vehicles and doing desk jobs. I now have a shoulder and arm that has been severley damaged by the use of crutches for such a period of time, and to that end, it is still weekly visits to the physio and monthly visits to the doctor.
BUT happily, I am back doing a little bit of feltmaking. I have a lot of prefelts, which I have begun to collate and make into wall hangings and collages. Photos will have to wait until I get them all done. I am busy with the sewing machine, embroidering some felts, adding some special touches. I did make a few Christmas tree decorations with my Huskystar Embellesher for a Christmas Exchange with the Aussiefeltmakers group, and on reading all the talk on blogs on the discussion group with feltmakers in USA, I decided that it is time to get the ball rolling with a blog myself.
;Cheers til next time
Jaruleeli (Julie)
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