Looking forward to meet you at GalGael with my felted creations!
A warm welcome to my blog! Here you will find my fiber craft creations: wet felted and needle felted handmade products made with love. I love fiber craft and being creative with natural fibers like sheep's wool, silk, cotton, linen and more. I love to share my skills in demonstrations and workshops. It is my pleasure to create bespoke fiber craft. In 2021 I have stopped updating this blog. You can find updates about my activities, workshops and events on my website: www.laryna.com
Showing posts with label felt making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label felt making. Show all posts
Friday, 19 May 2017
Monday, 25 March 2013
My latest projects: Needle felted dwarfs, slippers and a vessel
It's such great fun for me to needle felt these little dwarfs. They are little characters! While I'm creating them they develop this character and then I know what colour shade to use and what tool or item they'll carry. I'm happy to teach how to create these and other little figures in my felt workshops in Glasgow and surroundings. Here you can find out more about felt workshops:
http://creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.co.uk/p/workshops-and-bespoke-fiber-craft.html
These are my first felted slippers, made from white shetland wool and triangular pre-felted colourful scraps. I used a cardboard template much bigger than my feet to felt these seemless slippers. The felting and especially the fulling was hard work and took me a couple of hours.
Eventually it was rewarding and I love to wear them on my feet and feel the warmth and coziness.
This vessel was felted around a template like the slippers above. This time it was interesting for me to see how I would manage to shape it and will the shape stay the way I wanted it. I worked from the inside and outside of the vessel to shape it nicely. Because of the four layers of wool the vessel is strong enough to keep it's shape, as you can see in the photo below!
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| Little dwarf with a treasure bag |
http://creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.co.uk/p/workshops-and-bespoke-fiber-craft.html
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| 4 dwarfs in my garden |
These are my first felted slippers, made from white shetland wool and triangular pre-felted colourful scraps. I used a cardboard template much bigger than my feet to felt these seemless slippers. The felting and especially the fulling was hard work and took me a couple of hours.
Eventually it was rewarding and I love to wear them on my feet and feel the warmth and coziness.
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| Wet felted slippers |
This vessel was felted around a template like the slippers above. This time it was interesting for me to see how I would manage to shape it and will the shape stay the way I wanted it. I worked from the inside and outside of the vessel to shape it nicely. Because of the four layers of wool the vessel is strong enough to keep it's shape, as you can see in the photo below!
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| The vessel in progress, just after cutting out the opening. You can see the black template. |
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| The finished and shaped vessel, still damp |
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Wet felt class in Glasgow's West End on Saturday the 23. of March 10.30am-1.30pm, for beginners+
In this wet felt class you will
- learn about the process of wet felting
- experiment with colours and design
- use a template to create a seamless, hollow vessel e.g. a pouch, a little bag or wrist cuffs.
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| Felted pouch |
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| Felted case for a pair of glasses |
Tea will be provided.
Cost: £18/£15
Venue: Between Charing Cross and St Georges Cross
For 4-6 participants only.
Please book in advance to secure your place!
Email: laryna108@gmail.com
Mobile: 07503 210 416
The following link leads you to a post of one of my workshops earlier this year. There you can find the finished projects from participants and a testimonial.
http://creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/felt-classes-in-glasgows-west-end-and.html
Saturday, 20 August 2011
More felt workshops in August and September
The next 2 felt workshops, one in Glasgow's East (11am-12.30pm) and the other in the West of Glasgow (4-6pm), will run on Wed 31st of August.
Come along to learn wet felting or improve the skills in felting you already have. Have fun, enjoy and create something beautiful out of lovely coloured sheep's wool. Workshops for children from 5 years onward and for adults. Children should be accompanied by an adult if I don't know them already. Suggested donation for the 1.5 h workshop in Dennistoun £3 and for the 2 h workshop in the Westend £4 (or £6 if you will make a seamless pouch or mobile phone bag).
Arts and Crafts in the Garden
Felt workshop
Wednesday 31st Aug, 11-12.30pm
Fun for all age groups, from 5 years onward!
Contact Rox at 07708044560 or Dennistoun.diggers.events@gmail.com
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Felt workshop
Wednesday 31st Aug, 4-6pm
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Nuno felt workshop
as part of the Penicuik and District Arts Festival
Nuno felting is a fabric felt technique. The name is derived from the Japanese word "nuno", which means cloth. the technique bonds loose fibres, usually wool into a sheer fabric such as silk gauze, creating a lightweight felt. You will learn how to make a nuno scarf, using wool and a piece of silk fabric. Previous experience in felting or good craft skills would be required.
Contact: Laryna 07503210416 or email: laryna108@gmail.com
Please check out the website of Penicuik and District Arts Festival: http://pdaf2011.weebly.com/
as part of the Penicuik and District Arts Festival
Saturday 10th of September 2011, 1-5pm, £25
West Street Arts Centre in Penicuik, venue #2
(Please book in advance, spaces are limited)
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| Nuno felt scarf in warm colours |
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| Nuno felt scarf in watery colours |
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| Nuno felt scarf, 2 slightly different sides |
Contact: Laryna 07503210416 or email: laryna108@gmail.com
Please check out the website of Penicuik and District Arts Festival: http://pdaf2011.weebly.com/
Saturday, 15 January 2011
All day felt-making workshop in Penicuik
Last Thursday, the 6th of January, I worked with some lovely people in Penicuik delivering a wet felting course.
Making Space Penicuik writes:
".....we had a great full day and full-on felting workshop with 6 women and one child facilitated by Laryna from Glasgow. It was an advanced/intermediate wet felting course, but most participants had not done much or even any wet felting at all."{my friend}...... "organised the workshop because proper wet-felting, esp of strong wearebles, is not on offer in the Saturday sessions at the town hall, but as people really wanted to have both the experience of the fullness of felt craft for a change, plus because they wanted to wear something proper made of felt, such as hat or a bag".
Making Space Penicuik writes:
".....we had a great full day and full-on felting workshop with 6 women and one child facilitated by Laryna from Glasgow. It was an advanced/intermediate wet felting course, but most participants had not done much or even any wet felting at all."{my friend}...... "organised the workshop because proper wet-felting, esp of strong wearebles, is not on offer in the Saturday sessions at the town hall, but as people really wanted to have both the experience of the fullness of felt craft for a change, plus because they wanted to wear something proper made of felt, such as hat or a bag".
Here you see a reversible hat in two colours in different stages of the felting process
When I was asked to facilitate an all day felt workshop I agreed instantly, because I really love to share my skills and experience.
After I demonstrated the process of a seamless felted bag everybody started with her own project of choice, like bags, pouches and hats. After the coloured wool had been chosen and the templates have been made, the laying out of fibers could start.... Hot water and soap were prepared to be applied to the fibers. The hands started to glide gently over the netting which was protecting the fibers from sliding apart.
Making Space Penicuik wrote on, showing some pictures: "Here you see one of the first finished felt projects: Katie's bag ready for taking home and making felt bead closure. It is quite hard work to get it all right - the even layering of the fibres, to make the seamless smooth and firm, and full (rolling hard) the fabric until desired wearable firmness is achieved."
Sarah's big shoulder bag ready to be cut open.
"Craft instructor and maker Laryna was very impressed with the outcomes: Really beautifully and strongly worked seamless felt fabric items! And the new makers were happy about the outcome of this day. Plans are being hatched to no more buy Christmas presents but to make them oneself!" Good luck and fun for that and better start right now! says I!
"More pictures of the felts of this day and the 'fabulous way of removing air' (= another name for 'felt making') to follow. So watch this space!"
Anneruth made a couple of short videos of the felt demonstration, so I am certainly watching that space, too!
Thank you, Making Space Penicuik, for your kind words, fab spirit and great pictures! It is so hard to make pictures myself when I have all hands full in a workshop!
And I love it having my hands full - so, everybody out there in Glasgow and further afield:
Are y o u interested to learn about felt making? Please contact me and ask for more information!
Maxines felted bag, lovely embellished
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