Mobile phone bags in different colours and designs

A soft, seamless felted mobile phone bag is a great protection for you mobile phone and it looks nice! :-) 

Here you see a couple of the ones I made for friends for myself and to purchase.

  

Mobile phone bag "water"



Mobile phone bag "water", back

    

"Fire"

"Fire", back



Butterfly

 



The butterfly is still there!

Warm reds



Blue shades

Blue turquoise and lilac





Green blend





Sparkling dark red bag



Felted seamless bags and cases

This commissioned seamless felted handbag is made out of grey Shetland wool and lilac shades of merino wool. There is a little additional pocket for small utensils inside.
The ivy leave shapes are needle felted and attached after the bag had been felted. 
The felted strap has been sewn on the bag. I felted another smaller handbag, which you can see at the bottom of this page.

The size of this handbag is about 20 x 25cm

 

Here you see the closure with 2 buttons and a felted loop



"Water", case for glaces,



"Fire", case for glaces

 Little bag for utensils

Lilac bag with needle felted ivy leaf

Here the ivy leaf is directly needle felted on the finished felt bag.



Needle felted ivy leaf:detail of lilac bag





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".

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

Felting workshop with women and kids, making christmas deco and gifts

Felted brooch

Monday before Christmas we had a lovely felting workshop in a friends house in Glasgow's Westend. We were 4 women and 5 kids. First I showed dry felting with a cookie cutter, shaped like a holly leave or a snowman. The kids enjoyed it very much! The next step was a wet felted flat felt in the size of about 20cm x 25 cm, for either a brooch, a picture or a cushion cover. Everybody was choosing one colour of unspun wool for the first and the second layer of wool and then smaller amounts of coloured wool in different shades for the pattern or embellishment of the flat felt piece. We covered the wool with a fine netting and sprinkled very warm soapy water over it. Now the process of felting started with gentle movements of the hands gliding over the covered wet and soapy wool. Mmmm, what a tingling feeling in the palms of our hands,and the soap started to foam more or less. After the gentle gliding we could start to put a bit more effort into the movements. That was good fun! Lifting up the netting in between so that it doesn't connect with the felting wool was important. Then flapping the already slightly felted piece over and felting it from the back. Then making the pinching check. if the wool has already been felted properly. If the answer was "yes", we could roll the flat piece in a bamboo mat, at first still covered with the netting. The fulling process started and the piece got stronger and was shrinking. When the piece had been rolled in the mat for a while and it felt strong enough it had been rinsed with cold water, or even alternating in warm and cold water to improve the felting process. Now the felted piece needed to dry on the radiator before anything else could be done with it. The result of this workshop was many different lovely felted pieces. We had good fun and the participants were proud about their successful felted flat piece. We will have another workshop on Monday the 3rd of January in the afternoon.

Angels & Fairies

These are a couple of my lately created fairies and angels, using unspun sheep's wool and a felting needle.

 

Fairy for a newborn girl

Woolly Angels