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 - first time felters great little pouch!
Towamba Valley Feltmakers Next felt day: JANUARY 17, 2009 - we meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month
- Towamba Hall, verandah on oval-side
- come anytime from 10am on
- bring your own lunch
- 50c weekly courtesy to the kitty for tea, coffee, milk etc
- wool 'shop' will have fleece available at 5-6cents/gram, money to Nancy
- supplies of felting needles and foam for dry needle felting available
- each person bring your own towel, bucket,sponge, scissors and other as you decide (own wool, grip mat or bubble wrap if you like)
More info contact Nancy Blindell -phone 6496 7075 or email
Felting is a fun, tactile experience, making a wool fabric out of different coloured fleece, purely by making the fibres lock around each other. With felting you make flat felt artpieces, felt hats and slippers, bags, nuno felt onto fabric for clothing and much more.
Felt is right up there
with 2 winners at the recent Wyndham Art Exhibition
Marina Wilson won the People's Choice Award for her amazing handfelted gown with matching felt boots
and Lorraine Douglas won the Priceless Art Award for her felted bags.
What talent!
and what creativity there is in felting!
See more on the Wyndham Art Exhibition page
 - some of the inspiring feltwork from the convergence
In 2005 I went up to Canberra to attend
the 8th Southern Hemisphere Feltmakers Convergence. A whole week
devoted to felting (pure luxury!)-not much practical time but plenty of
talks, slide shows, demos, exhibitions and fashion parades. Crikey-even
the stuff people wore to the talks was inspiring! It was great exposure to
the wider world of fulltime felters, fibre artists and very experienced
felters. Very inspirational.
So that's why I've come back wanting to get agroup started, so we can explore lots of ideas together, inspire eachother with all our different backgrounds and talents, and at least it meansthat I get to do felting at least once a month!
It's a very casual affair-noone's expected to come every time, and attendence will vary, but it's always a fun, relaxing and creative time.
Maybe we should aim for the 2007 convergence in Melbourne!
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