Spinning Workshop with Linda Lewis

This weekend has been the first weekend of workshops after a summer of boaty maintenance and time out. The wonderful Linda Lewis is running a guest Spinning and Weaving workshop, so I get to be the student not the teacher!
It’s a weekend of wool with a Felting Workshop too.

Over the weekend we will be carding wool, spinning wool, weaving wool, wet felting wool, needle felting wool and free motion machine embroidering into wool! It’ll be a very wonderful, woolly weekend!

Linda makes spinning look like magic and so easy!  It is actually really quite difficult, you often feel like you need an extra set of  hands and fingers.  I very excited about having Linda come and teach this workshop, she is a very talented women, who knows an awful lot about wool.  We have plans to do a Weekend of Wool Course together in March 2018.  If you’re interested in booking, keep an eye out on Facebook and the website, more details in the new year.

White sands, pink skies! Felting for Open Studios.

A felt landscape, almost finished, ready for Hebden Bridge Open Studios.
This piece is inspired by Scottish sunsets and the fabulous felting artist Moy Mackay.  http://www.moymackaygallery.com/.
It’s also an example of what you can learn to do during my full day felting workshops.  This piece is created using wet felting and more detail is added using free motion machine embroidery and needle felting.  I’ve recently invested in a new sewing machine and it’s amazing! I love using the free motion embroidery foot to add detail and texture to the fabric.
I’ll be doing demonstrations during Open Studios so pop down to the Floating Pop Up Gallery! xx

White sands pink sky