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Post by zed on Aug 18, 2015 10:44:44 GMT
They look great, Elizabeth Penguin, I did get it felted yesterday, so hopefully I'll get photos today, and blog about it tomorrow. It's not 'painterly' or artistic like felt paintings you see, but it turned out alright. The colours are so off from the photo though! The yellows and mustards of the photo are much more 'acidic'.
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Post by zed on Aug 17, 2015 15:30:37 GMT
Thanks, Judy It was definitely a one off! I only started to feel 'normal' again yesterday.
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Post by zed on Aug 17, 2015 9:32:06 GMT
It's gorgeous, Aphee My daily dose yesterday was starting on a picture for my sister. I thought I'd copy a photo of hers to say thanks for helping me at MakeFest. It's basically a field scene, with irregular bands of grass/greenery and fields of flowering rape. I don't have a computer downstairs so had to make detailed plans with measurements etc. It didn't look very impressive once I'd done the blocks of colour, and the rape part looked better all texturey, so I thought I may aswell take artistic license and add textures etc. So it's probably only half done so far. I'm trying to decide how far to go with texture, whether to add a bit of dyed nylon to the grassy area or scrim etc. If I was good with stitching I'd add details with that after.
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Post by zed on Aug 17, 2015 9:25:34 GMT
Nice
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Post by zed on Aug 17, 2015 9:24:08 GMT
That's gorgeous, Lyn! You should join one of those sites where you upload your photos and people can buy cards or art prints, it doesn't cost anything and you set how much you get (fine art America is one).
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Post by zed on Aug 17, 2015 9:20:32 GMT
I think I'd have a go if I followed a tutorial, but otherwise it all seems to hard to follow, there's lingo I don't know and it almost seems like a guarded secret no one wants to share.
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Post by zed on Aug 17, 2015 9:17:44 GMT
Yeah, I didn't think it would make an actual clear print, I just meant be applied directly to the fabric in that same way to create a dyed patch. This is the post I saw, scroll down to Clive, he used his onion skins directly and the effect is really nice: lincsinstitches.com/2015/07/29/eco-dying-at-artvango/
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Post by zed on Aug 15, 2015 10:18:23 GMT
Nice clutch and nice shawl My dose yesterday was writing the names of the colours on the WoW wool packets for the well-being centre felting course.
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Post by zed on Aug 15, 2015 10:11:35 GMT
Could you use berries in the same way leaves are used for eco 'printing'? Lay them on the silk or felt and roll up etc. I don't really know the process, but I saw the same being done with onion leaves recently and they gave good results.
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Post by zed on Aug 14, 2015 9:57:55 GMT
It is a great banner isn't it? There was another one recently I liked too, can't remember what now!
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Post by zed on Aug 14, 2015 9:56:43 GMT
That's really cool, Lyn! I used to get the wooden veg crates supermarkets had years ago and use the hardboard for painting on. The cardboard ones that have been around for years, like they put in the cages at Sainsbury's are great for stacking too. When my kids were little and we were really poor, we had stacks of them for drawers. I still have one under my bed! Carole, I hate to throw mushroom tubs away and they're not recyclable, I finally did get rid of a lot when I had the kitchen done. Another thing I hated throwing away but eventually did was Pot Noodle tubs. They would have been perfect for all my cellulose dyeing too
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Post by zed on Aug 13, 2015 9:58:50 GMT
Thanks everyone That's a good idea, Lyn! Jill, I did start to lose my voice, and not only that but at the end of each day, I found it hard to eat, like my mouth was so tired it forgot how to chew! One lady already got in touch and said she was ordering supplies! I am still so exhausted, but at least it was worth it
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Post by zed on Aug 13, 2015 9:54:00 GMT
I'm still putting stuff away from makefest, and separating some left overs for the well-being felting course
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Post by zed on Aug 12, 2015 7:49:42 GMT
I did a post about the MakeFest event : feltingandfiberstudio.com/2015/08/11/makefest-again/It's quite long, sorry! I missed out loads of things too that I learned for next time. If there's a next time. For events like this where people just 'have a go', I don't need to take quite so many colours. Lots weren't even looked at. I'd stick to the rainbow and a few others like sky blue, turquoise and bright pink. I'd probably even card the wool tops myself, people did find it difficult to pull them off, and found the blends I'd made much easier, so maybe a quick once through on the carder would help, especially for kids anyway. I took so many fibres-it was why I got chosen-but there wasn't much interest really, certainly not in such a wide variety. Some people who weren't felting were interested in them And one girl who tried it on the Saturday asked her boyfriend to find out what the really soft fibre was, and he left with a handful of kapok (as did one of the little kids, Annabelle, I think) he came back later and gave me some kevlar, a strand of kevlar thread and some fibre Oh, and only one small piece of silk was used. As for the 'is felting therapeutic' we were talking about, I think after all the 'it's so soothing/relaxing/therapeutic' comments I got from adults, some even just watching, I think that's a definite yes
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Post by zed on Aug 12, 2015 7:20:04 GMT
They do look nice colours. You need the Procion dyes (what's the proper term for those, I can't remember?) for viscose, it dyes really well.
Oh, Fibre reactive?
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