What do southern New Zealanders like to do to escape the winter snows? Well this feltmaker has just returned from a great 29 days away tutoring in Northland and Auckland areas. Staying with six different people, three for the felting classes, exploring places new to me, and enjoying showing about 50 people how I work with merino and fabrics and silk fibres to explore the possible layering and texturing of the surface colours and patterns. Even more enjoyable is seeing them add their own inspirations to the mix – so here are some of the results of class work for you to see too.
Most were experienced feltmaker themselves, but we all – me included – found new ideas and modified methods to carry with us into future work. Some classes got interested in hats, some in dreadlocks, others wrapped up in the challenge, and some even progressed with to hand and machine stitching at home before the second day.
My hosts all ended up with a hat from the class demo, and were keen enough to wear them home in the car even though they were still damp ( I don’t think their hair was trapped in the styling pins, though that was possible…)
Thankyou to all the feltmakers, host families, and Creative Fibre organisers who helped arrange and run these courses. These pictures are from Whangarei.
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