Spring Fayre in GalGael

This Saturday, 4th of May you can meet me and my felted fairy friends, felted bags, hats, flowers, jewellery and much more.

Enjoy a day in a creative environment! Come along to Galgael's Spring Fayre this Saturday 10am-4pm in Glasgow/ Ibrox, 15 Fairley Street,  G51 2SN,

http://www.galgael.org/news-and-events/spring-fayre

Keeping the coffee hot!

Keeping the coffee hot!

I have seen beautiful felted tea cozies, but a coffee cozy I hadn't seen yet. So, my friend and I got busy with wool, hot water and soap. Each of us created a coffee cosy. One with earthy natural colours and another one with warm firery colours, to keep the coffee hot! We had a great time, chatting and being creative.
Here you can see the outcome!


Colours like fire!






Another coffee cosy, made by a friend of mine, using natural coloured wool

Two all-day wool craft workshops: A "Spinning / Natural Dyeing Workshop" and a "Felt Workshop", Saturday 20th April 2013, 10am-4pm

All Day Spinning and Natural Dyeing Workshop

Spinning wheel

Spinning and natural dyeing of sheep’s wool are skills that have been practiced for thousands of years. We still practice them here in GalGael and are happy to teach you how to do them! The kind of plants we will use, were already used in ancient times to colour cloth.

The aim of this workshop is to teach the basic skills from raw sheep’s wool to a hand spun & natural dyed yarn.

Some of the things you will learn about are:
• carding the wool with hand carders & drum carder;
• spinning with drop spindle and spinning wheel;
• natural dyeing with plants;

Natural dyeing in process

At the end of the workshop you will have your own hank or ball of hand spun undyed wool and one of natural dyed
wool and have learned traditional wool processing skills.
Feel free to bring your own drop spindle, spinning wheel or other equipment along with you.

Please bring a packed lunch.
Cost: £50 incl. materials, tea & coffee
Workshop facilitators: Tartan Heather & Gillian Richardson
Please book asap, as places are limited
GalGael: 0141 4273070
Venue: GalGael, 15 Fairley Street, Glasgow/Ibrox G51 2SN
Just 5 mins walk from Ibrox subway
Galgael's website:www.galgael.org

All Day Felt Workshop

Get a feeling for felt
Wet felting workshop for beginners+

Seamless felted case for glasses

Felt making is a skill that has been practiced for thousands of years. We still practice it here in GalGael and are happy
to teach you how to do it!

The aim of this workshop is to teach the basic skills of traditional wet felting, using natural and colourful sheep’s wool fibres.
You will:
• learn to felt cords and a ball/bead
• learn to felt a flat piece
• experiment with colours and design
• use a template to felt a seamless hollow vessel,
e.g. a pouch or a case or a pair of wrist cuffs.
• learn different ways of finishing off the felted items.

At the end of the workshop you will have your own felted items and have learned a new and traditional skill.

Felted beads made into
a necklace and earrings

Please bring 2 towels, a bar of glycerine soap (e.g.Pears) and a plastic bag for your finished work and a packed lunch. Tea and coffee provided.
Cost: £40 incl. material

Workshop facilitator:Laryna Wuppermann, Fibre craft artist

Please book asap, as places are limited
GalGael office: 0141 4273070
Venue: GalGael, 15 Fairley Street, Glasgow/Ibrox
Just 5 mins walk from Ibrox subway
Galgael's website:www.galgael.org

Felted wrist cuffs

My latest projects: Needle felted dwarfs, slippers and a vessel



Little dwarf with a treasure bag

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



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.


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!  

The vessel in progress, just after cutting out the opening. 
You can see the black template.







The finished and shaped vessel, still damp

Wet felt class in Glasgow's West End on Saturday the 23. of March 10.30am-1.30pm, for beginners+

Felt making is an ancient technique to create a woollen fabric. I love it and like to share my experience and skills with you, if you are interested.   

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.

Felted pouch 

Felted case for a pair of glasses

Please bring a towel, a bar of glycerin soap (e.g. pears) and a plastic bag for your finished items.

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