Since I last posted, I have attended a felt jewellery workshop with
Chris Branch who managed to cram lots of different techniques into quite a
short time. I came home with two corsages and the makings of some
earrings and a bracelet.
Calidad Events Craft and Gift Fair on Saturday, 22nd June, could
have been busier but as the weather turned out quite good, everyone went to
Africa Oye in the park!
Last Friday, Liz and I and a friend from when we did City and Guilds
courses, set off up the M6 for Woolfest www.woolfest.co.uk in Cockermouth. It was, as last year, a very wet day awful
for Liz who did all the driving, Bless her! We arrived at about 11.30 and, apart from a quick lunch and an afternoon
cup of coffee, we were on the go till we started home at shortly after 4.30
p.m. exhausted but happy. It was, as usual, exciting, exhilarating and inspiring.
We managed to resist the most extravagant spending, although, as
well as replenishing my felting wool stock, and buying acrylic wax and some textile
glue, I bought some scrim which is destined for nuno felting and treated myself
to a couple of pieces of silk velvet in gorgeous shades of purple and sea
green. I have a couple of ideas for it but I’ll have to experiment first
I think.
Since then, we've had a very musical three days - on Saturday
practically the whole family turned out to see our eldest grandson playing
percussion with Ormskirk Symphony Orchestra. On Sunday afternoon, my
husband and I sang in a concert at the Palm House in Sefton Park - that
was interesting - it's a beautiful building but, when the sun is
shining, it gets extremely hot which isn't easy to sing in. On
Monday, we went to see number one grandson again, this time playing with Chethams School
of Music at the Royal Northern College
of Music in Manchester. It was a bit of a nostalgia trip for us, as our
younger daughter studied there and, in the nineties, we often went to
performances there.
Although I've been busy gadding about, I have been tying up loose ends and
I’ve experimented with making felted soap. The ladies from the Soap Empire
www.thesoapempire.co.uk kindly
donated some small bars of soap which I covered with merino wool so that they
look like pebbles. They were quite successful, but I’m not sure I’ll
be making many more –I didn’t find it
terribly satisfying. I did make a
couple of pieces of felt for book covers and I’m hoping to finish them
tonight. I’ m making an effort to get
some stock together for the Green Fayre at Beacon Park, www.westlancs.gov.uk on 20th
and 21st July where I’ll be
demonstrating felt-making for the two days. I’ve finished off about a dozen brooches and
a similar number of hand painted silk bookmarks so far. 
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