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Post by tracey on Dec 16, 2016 7:32:38 GMT
Thanks Ruth, that was a good read.
I guess the stage I am at is just looking at the smaller picture of how much the materials cost and waving my hands at the time producing the item.
Here is an example. My husband was commenting on the first flower bag I made, which I made for myself. He said let's say someone paid you £70 for it, and I tell you if they did I would be cart wheeling down the street and I cannot even do cartwheels! , he said if that took you ten hours to make which it was probably more, I would not be paying myself the minimum wage, and that's without calculating any material costs. As I have said before - tricky.
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Post by tracey on Dec 15, 2016 21:00:22 GMT
I am sure it will be great. Look forward to seeing it when you have time to complete it, and you're happy.
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Post by tracey on Dec 15, 2016 20:21:48 GMT
Thanks Anne, how did you get on with your gorgeous sea scape? How did the gull turn out? I wish I could do colours like you!
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Post by tracey on Dec 15, 2016 16:44:57 GMT
Superb hat Madeleine. I particularly like how rigid and thick the spirals are. That obviously took you an awful long time to produce, enjoy it.
By the way what do we call the other embellishments that are not spirals? Spikes?
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Post by tracey on Dec 14, 2016 19:05:21 GMT
Not at all! Yours are fabulous, would not dream of comparing them. Really good tutorial. Well done you for originality. I just need to buy some pipe cleaners....
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Post by tracey on Dec 14, 2016 7:37:04 GMT
There is an Alpaca farm not too far from me. I had seen lots of lovely rugs online and fancied having a go. I went to the farm and met all the lovely Alpacas and bought 750g of luscious chocolate locks. I thought I would practice and make a seat pad. Well I made a complete mess of it and it kept the bin warm....I was new to felting, maybe I didn't work it long enough, I don't know. It was because of this that I asked Zara a short while ago whether she mixed any other wool into Gotland when felting.
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Post by tracey on Dec 14, 2016 7:18:16 GMT
Glad you like your elf shoes, Frances, & very glad they didn't get too squished in the mail! I am so not a needle felter, but saw this tutorial & felt (haha) they would make a fun card. Jill, the tutorial for the elf shoes, was it Sarafina Fibre Art?
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Post by tracey on Dec 12, 2016 19:28:49 GMT
Again, from a thrift/charity store or a house clearance place, one of those small A-frame wooden set of step ladders, that have suddenly become 'vintage', painted a colour to show off your wares. Eye catching.
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Post by tracey on Dec 12, 2016 12:22:27 GMT
Let's face it - tables just aren't big enough! I think your choice of a white cloth is good. The example with the blue cloth looks good at first, but you soon realise that you're paying more attention to the pretty blue cloth than to the items. After I'd pulled my eyes away from the blue I could see that it didn't really enhance the colours of the items, whereas your white cloth shows the felt colours beautifully. I like the height that the baskets give, in the first example, but felt needs light and that wicker certainly wouldn't help with that. But you have achieved height using other ways. Scarves are a problem when you have nowhere to hang stuff. If you do enough fairs with table-only space, it might pay to invest a tenner in something like a free-standing towel rail? You might even find a pretty vintage one in a junk sale. Failing that Ikea do one suitable for small spaces: stainless steel rack for small spaces £10I think your table looks fabulous and I would make a bee-line for it! Good point on the blue cloth Lyn, white is clean and crisp.
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Post by tracey on Dec 12, 2016 11:33:28 GMT
Well Galina, here are my thoughts from a customer point of view. The first stall is neat and orderly due to the fact there are a number of things there the same size and shape, just different colours. The second benefits from height, but you have a podium too. I would use different levels. Your stall would attract me just as quickly as the other two. As you say about the variety aspect, that means more sections of interest on the display. I personally enjoy feasting my eyes on lots of different things, rather than realising the stall in front of me has limited choice, I would quickly move on. I too know of a fair where the organisers dictate how your stall should look, but I guess they are just trying to make the fair memorable to people for the right reasons.
I love your stall, I love your tea cozies!
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Post by tracey on Dec 12, 2016 6:53:06 GMT
Super cute elf shoes Jill, and indeed all of the cards have been a joy to look at, I have really enjoyed waiting for them to be posted. I hope to join in next year, I wanted to see what you all got up to before jumping in! A really lovely exchange.
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Post by tracey on Dec 11, 2016 11:16:03 GMT
Beautiful sea scene. And the hanger is very original. Pitt we cannot see the metalic threads. I believe in reality it looks even greater. Hi Nada, thanks for the kind comments. The metallic threads are the ones that look like a line of dots in the sea. Glad you like it.
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Post by tracey on Dec 11, 2016 8:04:12 GMT
I made this simple beach scene pretty much as soon as I became addicted to felting. There are two suggestions in there from a friend, silver and blue metallic threads running in the sea and the needle felted gulls. I have backed it with hessian and the hanger is real driftwood I collected a few years ago. It hangs in my bathroom and the morning sun shows up the metallic threads, and it makes me smile! www.dropbox.com/s/calk6efc8zupiy5/20161022_135022.jpg?dl=0
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Post by tracey on Dec 9, 2016 20:06:49 GMT
Love those little critters, Zara, & what a good idea to combine wet & needle felting on them. I had a lady in a wet-felting class wanting to incorporate her old dog's fur as a rememberence piece (it has since died). it was an Airedale breed, I don't think they shed, so I was rather concerned. I got her to lay a design in mostly merino in a 18" square, then add a little dog's hair on the top layer. & added a few tiny wisps to make sure. It felted in well & quite quickly. Rather hairy, I think it would shed a bit, but she was happy to make it into a cushion cover front. Me, I just smelt wet dog so haven't tried felting either of my mutts yet! Yes I can see how some would like it as a rememberence piece. I would just like to give my poor hoover a break.........
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Post by tracey on Dec 9, 2016 6:35:56 GMT
Oh yes Zara I do remember these cuties, they are lovely, you expect them to squeak they look so real! I really love the very last picture where it looks like they are all on a mission to get somewhere! Our dogs really need combing at the minute so I'll have a go. Thanks.
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