Festive Fun!

As it's nearly Christmas, I thought I'd share the results of my last workshop of 2012 from a couple of weeks ago, to make Chistmassy felt and decorations. My 3 talented ladies first made a heavily embellished, wet-felted piece of flat felt, using all the Christmas shine (sparkly yarms, angelina and silk fibres) they could find.  Whilst it was drying, they made long icicle ornaments to hang from the tree.  Then once the flat felt was dry,they made bunting and placemats from it as decorations for Christmas.  Here are the results of their handiwork!  And Merry Christmas to all!

And I wish it could be Christmas...

My first Christmas sparkle felt workshop this year with 2 talented ladies new to felting. The idea was to make flat felt (for them to turn into tree hanging ornaments later) as well as some felt beads with a ribbon attached ready to hang. We did lots of experimenting with adding yarns and silk fibres to the felt, as well as adding angelina sparkly fibres with an embellisher machine after the felt was made and dry, which gave a lovely sheen. I'm loooking forward to seeing their finished decorations (if they've been able to cut the felt - often once it's made people find they don't actually want to cut it up!). Some lovely work here with added Christmas sparkle!