First, some photos of the items I wrote about in my last blog.
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| felt bag |
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| detail of flower |
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| spectacle case |
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| pumpkin bowl |
On the last weekend of October, we had two Craft Fairs –
Saturday at Lark Lane, our usual happy hunting ground – was good for me as I
sold several items including a patchwork bag which has not had any interest
before. On Sunday, 28th, we were at the Isla Gladstone Pavilion in
Stanley Park which is an absolutely beautiful venue. Unfortunately, it rained in torrents all day
and so very few people were about, and those who were around were probably
going to the derby match between Everton and Liverpool. Not one of our finest hours – most
disappointing for everyone, including the helpful, friendly, organisers who I
really felt very sorry for. Despite use wearing our witches hats and false noses, not even the pumpkin bowl was sold.
The following weekend we went to Holland to visit our
daughter and her family, so not much got done then except a lot of eating and
drinking! Before we went, I had a
little time to experiment dyeing wool with the food dyes I mentioned last
time. I was pleasantly surprised, the
first time I used a strawberry dye on a piece white felt and that was a great
success. In fact, I’ve used it to make
a diary cover embellished with some gold and red scraps of silk, satin, tulle
and organza and machine embroidery.
The
next experiment was with two further pieces of white felt and some white wool
tops. I used one lemon and lime (green)
and a raspberry ice (turquoise blue) dye and syringed the dye onto the pieces
of felt to produce a green blending to blue.
Both pieces are destined to be notebook covers. I mixed the remainder of the solutions and
used that on the merino wool tops to produce a lovely delicate turquoise – so
again a good result (pictures in the next post) . 
This week, I needlefelted some white and green prefelt to a
piece of white fabric and then decorated it with silk ribbon and beads and that
made another diary cover.
This week, I needlefelted some white and green prefelt to a
piece of white fabric and then decorated it with silk ribbon and beads and that
made another diary cover.
On Friday, Liz
and I and 2 friends from the Camera Club attended a day’s workshop on Creative
Photography with Dianne Owen. The day
was really relaxed and enjoyable, very
informative and most inspiring – I came back fired up with enthusiasm and
hoping to spend some time trying to put the knowledge gained into
practise.
We had some great news on Thursday. Because of a cancellation, we now have a
table on both Saturday 8th and Sunday, 9th at the Winter
Arts Market at St. George’s Hall – we’d been really disappointed not to have
got in originally. It’s given us quite
a boost and also spurred us on to produce some more items for sale.
Yesterday, we went to a Charity Bag Sale, organised by the
Lions, at the T. A. Barracks in
Allerton. They had acquired hundreds of
bags of all shapes and sizes, wallets and purses, handbags, shopping bags -
through to suitcases, for sale at very low prices. I hope they made lots of money, they
certainly put in a lot of hard work.
It was an interesting and successful day for us, we met people we hadn’t
seen before and saw a few ‘old friends’.
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| spectacle case |
Yesterday, I also heard from the Best of Northern Art
Exhibition that they’d sold one of my felt scarves and some other items so,
today, I’ve ordered some wool and started making some felt – only a spectacle
case so far but the colours are great together. I hope to be more productive in the coming week.
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