Nuno Felting with Clare Bullock

Recently I asked Clare Bullock if she would do a Nuno Felting workshop for a group of my friends.  And she said YES!  Whooppeeeeee!

So four of us travelled to her fabulous studio in Sharnbrook, near Bedford.

Clare started by showing us her technique for Nuno Felting.

Adding sari silk

And felting.

Then we all had a go.  This is the first sample I made.

During the felting you can see the marks from the bubblewrap

The back

And the finished sample

I made two other pieces in the same way during the morning.

After lunch we made a white on white piece.

I added purple, pink and Quink blue ink and the colours did their thing.  (see the piece on the right).

The front

The back

The front

I had a lovely day.  Clare is such a brilliant and generous teacher.  You could have fun too.  Keep checking out Clare's website and if you can't see a suitable date for you, why not contact Clare and set up a workshop with her.

Thanks for joining me today.

Bernice

Ruth Issett workshop

I recently attended a two day workshop organised by Becca of Textile Explorations.  It was held in a fabulous community association building in Yate near Bristol.

The workshop was taught by Ruth Issett who is well known for her colour expertise.   The first process of the day was to dye 9 main colours.   Ruth had chosen Antique Gold, Golden, Lemon, Magenta, Carmine Red, Scarlet, Medium Blue, Cerulean Blue and Turquoise.

Here are all my fabrics, dried and ironed.  (Yes! I picked up an iron!)

The second process involved choosing 2 colours which we mixed in 3 different proportions to create a family of colour.  Here are mine drying overnight.

And altogether before ironing.  Yes I ironed these as well.

I recorded the colour mixing for each set of 2 colours.

Two of the colour families followed on from each other.

I love this bundle of threads that frayed from the fabrics.

These are all the little bits I cut of each strip I stuck into my sketchbook.

I used some of the little bits to make these colour collages which need to be stitched.

The two days were fantastic.  I learned such a lot.

Thank you Becca for organising the workshop.  And thanks to Ruth for her excellent teaching.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice