Today I joined 8 other felting enthusiasts at the Village Hall in Hutton Buscle near Scarborough for Jenny Peppers “Avanced Pods” workshop. I love Jenny’s classes, she’s a great tutor and explains/demonstrates every step very clearly as we work through our creations.
Two examples of Jenny’s work displayed with the shells which were her inspiration.
We all started out with the same size/shape resist and selected our colours from the huge stash of Merino wool on offer. We began by making a sheet of prefect using three different colours and this would be used to make “craters” in our pods. Working with our prefelts and resists we started with our inner layer and worked outwards, layering our wool tops before adding the spikes and tails.
My resist is wrapped in white Merino and the spikes attached at either end.
The top craters and embellishments are added to my piece.
The next stage was to place our outer craters where we wanted them and add silks, wools, snippets of prefelt, etc as embellishment before felting our spikes.
After lots of rubbing the dreaded rolling begins……and Jenny sees to it that her students don’t skint on the rolling!
Rolling, rolling and more rolling…..
Once again the company was great and day past very quickly with Jenny on hand to encourage, inform and see to it that we all manage to complete our work on time.
Two of the ladies had to leave early and unfortunately I didn’t get pictures of their finished work but here are the other seven.
Detail of my finished pod.
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Love the thing you do.
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Your very kind.
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So pleased you enjoyed your day…I didn’t realise I was such a task master! Hope your vessel has dried and the colours and silks are shining through.
My photos didn’t all download, could you possibly send me the ones that were where there were three pods together on the window sill? Thanks, see you soon, Jenny
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Thoroughly enjoyed it Jenny, as always. My vessel has dried out and I’m really pleased with the shape and texture. I will email you that image now.
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Wow, these are amazing creations, Karen! So glad you enjoyed it!
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Thanks Laura, I only wish I could attend Jenny’s next workshop in November but I left it too late to book so will have to motivate myself to do more felting at home.
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Is it too early to book her next one after November? hehe
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I love these pods. I’ve tried wet felting at home, unsuccessfully. I wish you could come up North and do a workshop in Northumberland. Fantastic results all round!
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Thanks Sue. My first attempts at felting were at home and I was pretty unsuccessful too, just keep trying and don’t give up! Its such a great craft and I am sure there will be someone up your way who could teach you if your struggling.
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Wow, I love your pod creations, they look like they were gathered from the forest, they are so organic. I would say fun was the main ingredient! Thanks for posting your creative day Karen.
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Glad you liked them. It was a “full on” day but you are right about the fun bit! We were there to learn techniques so didn’t have much time to think about design, now I’m back home I’m working on a design for another vessel using the skills I learnt with Jenny.
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Be sure to post your creation. Have a lovely Sunday.
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