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Post by lindsay on Mar 22, 2018 8:02:12 GMT
Thank you Carole. I’ve had to put it on the back burner for a little while as I have a 3-month exhibition coming up that overlaps with 3 other fairs / exhibitions so I’m having to make as many pictures / saleable things as possible to have enough pieces. However, it is simmering away in my imagination and I will definitely have a go at the spiral resist at some point! Also maybe a flat resist starfish as suggested by Lyn.
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 23, 2018 23:37:35 GMT
Nice tutorial for a shell, Pamster. I think I might have completely enclosed the resist and then cut along the red line . There would be more to roll into the inside shell shape.
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Post by lindsay on Mar 24, 2018 9:47:08 GMT
Nice tutorial for a shell I think I might have completely enclosed the resist and then cut along the red line . There would be more to roll into the inside shell shape. Thanks for responding - was there a link that I can’t see?
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 24, 2018 15:29:50 GMT
Sorry I was referring to the tutorial that Pamster posted. I edited my post so it makes more sence now.
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Post by lindsay on Mar 25, 2018 15:44:04 GMT
Ah, yes, I get it now, thanks Shepherdess. And I agree with your suggestions about how to adapt it with a fully enclosed resist.
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Post by lyn on Oct 10, 2018 21:08:59 GMT
Hi Lindsay - have you seen these photo instructions for making a shell? link
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Post by lindsay on Oct 11, 2018 8:18:54 GMT
Hi Lindsay - have you seen these photo instructions for making a shell? linkThank you, Lyn. No, I hadn’t seen that. What an interesting idea. Has anyone tried a 2 part process similar to this?
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Post by Shepherdess on Oct 12, 2018 14:30:03 GMT
Interesting photos. in the second last picture it looks like the resist is covered in fabric but in the last one it look like it was blue felt.
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Post by lindsay on Dec 15, 2018 8:53:43 GMT
I’m starting to think about what I’d like to make next year and am coming back to complex 3D shapes - whether shells, seed pods or whatever. I remember seeing a reference some time ago to Soosie Jobson’s excellent YouTube tutorials on differential shrinkage - ie laying more layers in a very precise way in some areas and fewer in others to create shape (the thinner sections shrink much more than the thicker ones). There are are tens of Soosie’s short films on YouTube but the series ‘a trio of pots’ and ‘the geometry of a circle’ are particularly relevant. Hopefully this is a link to the first in a trio of pots m.youtube.com/watch?v=nAI13xaa5skI had a go. The first one I made involved cutting 2 identical circular resists then cutting one of them into 8 even pieces (like slices of pie), pre-laying wool on 4 pie slices, adding them to the whole resist then adding 2 layers of wool over the whole thing. Soosie’s video clips explain this process much better than I just have! I forgot got to take process photos but you can see the result in the first 2 links here. An interesting square-ish shape. www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47830928www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47830926In the second experiment I added 6 ribs of pre-laid wool layers (fortunately I did take a picture of this) in superfine merino then 2 layers over the whole resist. www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47830930www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47830932www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47830934www.ipernity.com/doc/2373440/47830936More seed-like and not designed to stand up. Learned a lot from both of them and am looking forward to experimenting further next year.
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Post by lyn on Dec 15, 2018 10:55:10 GMT
I like them both - very successful experiments Lindsay so you must be happy about that!
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Post by Shepherdess on Dec 15, 2018 13:24:37 GMT
I like both results. they look very firm and good definition of the shape. I wonder if a book resist might be easier to get the shape? I’m not sure. There is fiddliness with both ways. I can see this way being especially good for smaller pieces, where changing layout directions can be difficult. For bigger things it may be easier to just look at the layout and adding more wool in some places and manage the wool direction. That is what I do with large pieces of clothing to help in the shaping. Soosie understands felting well I just wish she would edit all her videos in a project into one. Having to watch many, 2 min videos to see if there is something new can be annoying.
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Post by MTRuth on Dec 15, 2018 15:57:18 GMT
What fun experiments Lindsay and great results! I can't wait to see what you come up with next
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Post by pamster on Dec 15, 2018 20:54:13 GMT
Thanks for sharing Lindsay, it looks like fun and I'm inspired now
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Post by Pandagirl on Dec 16, 2018 0:18:44 GMT
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Post by lindsay on Dec 16, 2018 9:50:04 GMT
Thanks everyone for your comments. I agree Ann - there are lots of techniques that might work more or less well depending on size, what you’re trying to make, etc. I think that’s what I’m investigating really - how to create different effects and what I might use them for. I’ve never made big garments so I’ll have a look back over old posts and see what I might learn from those techniques too. Let me know if there’s something specific I should look at.
I have a week’s exhibition in a local gallery in early Feb which I’ve titled ‘At the Water’s Edge’ - mostly because that describes the vast majority of what I do rather than intending to make lots of new stuff. But I think that will spur me on to do some 3D shell shapes. I do love doing new things.
Go Pamster! Have a try at the variable shrinkage techniques. It’s quite surprising as it doesn’t look like anything much is going to happen until the later stages of fulling. Then it sort of pings into shape! These vessels are quite small so don’t take very long but I’ve learned that it’s important to be very accurate in the evenness of layers. It would be great to see something you’ve made.
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