http://www.lovefibre.com Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:11:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been developing this on the computer, thinking about colours and contrasting textures and struggling with the challenges of measurements and shrinkage. The design is flat, before felting. The border will be narrower and the circles will be smaller when it's done. I'll paint it using the same technique as ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/01/25/cushion-design/ It's taken me since early November when I last posted to get these pieces felted. I cut the silk painted sample I had made in two, and added a thin layer of white fleece - around the circles only, in one piece, and on the circles only, in the other. This ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2010/01/22/finally-felted/ I'm working on 'A Piece of Your Own' which is the first extended assignment of the OCA Textiles 1 course I'm doing. I never really got going again on the course after moving house last year and though I've only completed half of it, I would have run out of ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/11/10/plan-a/ Thanks to Joanna at Things [Handmade], I just learned about a very exciting new TV series, Talking Threads, which is going out on Sky and on the online TV channel countrychannel.tv, and will be made into a DVD as well. The series starts in mid-October - may it be the ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/09/18/textile-tv/ I made this soft neck scarf for my Mum's birthday using merino fibre in two shades of orange. The circles are silk tops - I love the crinkly shapes they make in the finished felt - and the green yarn  is plied handspun - my first attempt at plying on ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/09/11/orange-scarf/ Since I came back from Woolfest with this I've been inspired to begin learning this And this So (slowly) I'm amassing a small haul of slubby wayward yarns that should be useful for the weaving assignment in my next OCA Textiles 1 module, and for felting as well. I tried a bit of crochet ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/08/30/in-a-spin/ I only had time for a short felting session this weekend; and, in the first of the samples for my 'textile piece' assignment, I started with this digital image: This has elements of marbling, ripples distorting the original stripes, creating movement and asymmetry, forming new relationships between the lines. ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/07/12/gathered-felt/ Long ago, when I started this blog, its primary purpose was to track and trace my progress through the Open College of the Arts Textiles 1 course. Which, if I hadn't moved, I would already have finished; my new deadline of mid-November is looming and I still have half the ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/07/05/assignment-3/ I ws only intending to make one wrap to wear to our nephew's wedding last weekend, something to go with a particular dress that is cream with pink roses on it. But I've ended up with three! I began as one should, making samples for size and colour, and thought I'd ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/06/20/scarves-galore/ October 3rd 2009 will be the first International Day of Felt, organised by Felt United, a non-profit group of felt artists, as 2009 is the United Nation’s Year of  Natural Fibres. The vision is that felters all over the world will join together to display their felt outside their homes, and ... http://www.lovefibre.com/2009/05/11/international-day-of-felt/