HeartFelt Silks' Robbin Firth

[Frances]

flgourdretreat.weebly.com

Click on classes for the felting offerings

Robbin Firth is a felt artist and feltmaking instructor from the United States. Her HeartFelt Silks studio is located at the award-winning Seasons on St. Croix Gallery in scenic Hudson, Wisconsin. Robbin has been a fiber artist for over 20 years and has taught classes to hundreds of students of all levels of experience. She has been an invited artist and teacher at the renown Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN, and at Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI. Robbin is known for her innovative and colorful felted clothing, accessories, wall art, and objects of home decor. Together with her husband, Harry Firth, who is a woodworker, Robbin has developed a line of hand-crafted ergonomic felting tools, the Palm Washboards, which have become extremely popular with professional felt artists and felting enthusiasts around the world

[Pandagirl]

Frances, the link doesn't work. But I have seen these palm washboards at fiber fairs. Did you invest in one?

[jwugg]

I have 1 Marilyn & it's really very good indeed. I have a very similar tool which to a layman does look almost the same, but just doesn't have the same smoothness. With Robbin's tool, the tiniest of fibres in a fibre painting don't move, & it does cut down on rolling time, I find. Also good for fulling.
Robbin is also holding some workshops in the UK, I did see if I could get there, but alas no. She is very generous with her knowledge & very encouraging, I think a workshop with her would be a lovely experience.

[Pandagirl]

That's good to know Jill. Maybe Santa will bring me one. ;-)

[Frances]

k was trying to post about Robbin Firth Teaching Classes in Florida - will try again flgourdretreat.weebly.com = the link works for me.

[Frances]

I don't know what I did but my previous post is a mess - I tried to edit it but the changes would not take

[zed]

I edited it Frances, I can't tell what it was trying to do. The link works for me but goes to some gourd thing.

[Frances]

Yes the link goes to a gourd page but if you click on classes the felting classes being taught by Robbin will come up.

[MTRuth]

Are you taking classes there Frances? You could try the upwolfing

[Deleted]

Hello France..

I have 3 different Palm Boards and I love them. I have also bought the flower pattern from upwolfing but I have not used them yet.. Has anyone try this technique?

[Frances]

I am thinking about the classes - we are normally in North Georgia in September and I think that is the same weekend as the Alpaca Festival I had planned to attend in Georgia - so I will have to decide what will work best with our schedules.