Bespoke handmade felt crafts
We have spent some time experimenting with felting techniques and have made a range of felt “paintings”. The paintings are inspired by sea scapes and a heavily textures and use a wide range of fibres including wool, yarn, burrs, nepps and slubs; as well as fleeces from different sheep, Wendleydale is very curly and really adds energy to a piece of work. We plan to start selling these during 2012. Here’s a sneak preview.
I was so pleased to get a photo of a customer who bought a wedding nuno wrap for her winter wedding. Jessica looked absolutely stunning, and left me a message saying she was really pleased with how her Old Romance nuno felted wrap looked with her wedding dress.
I’m sure you will agree she looks a beautiful bride, and it made me feel very proud to have contributed, in a little way, to making her day special. Congratulations to Jessica. We wish you all the best for your future married life!
We have delivered our first batch of flower corsages to Daisy tea rooms in Scalby, Scarborough. We both felt a little nervous as we dropped them off- as if we were leaving our children behind at school for the first time! We hope that they will soon be selling like “hot cakes”- Ha- see what i did there!
So pop to Daisy tea rooms, relax, have a lovely cuppa and delicious cake, then pick up some unique hand crafted flower corsages for chritmas pressents for family and friends. what better way of christmas shopping is there?
I decided to up the anti and go Flame Red for bonfire night. I just love intense, deep and vibrant colours. Wait ’til you see my latest felty pieces……the colours are scrumptious!
Emma and I have been making and creating for years! I think it’s in our blood, as we both mentioned in our personal profiles we’ve formally studied art and Textiles but it goes deeper than that. We both love learning and making. Hand embroidery, machine embroidery, knitting and crochet are to name but a few of the things we like to do. I personally like the sense of acheivement at finishing a new piece of work, learning a new skill and the sense of competition. At the moment I am learning to crochet; Emma is amazing at crochet and seems to be able to pick up a pattern and make the piece perfectly. This is where the sense of competition comes in, I want to be as good, so I keep practicing! Last week I went for a “Crafternoon” (lunch and the craft of your choice for the afternoon) with a group of friends. I’m busy crocheting a hat at the moment ( my first ever) I have to say , it’s going well so far but I know that if I get stuck I can call my friend Em to help me out. The photo is of Emma wearing her crocheted hat. Photos of mine to follow soon ( I hope )
We’re really happy with the photography on our site and feel that the images show a number of ways in which you can wear our scarves and corsages but we’ve been thinking….
Perhaps we’re not letting you see all the wonderful textures and details of our work! We decided this week to get up close and personal with our collection and had a photo shoot focussing on the details. The descriptions tell you about the beads, the angelina and the nepps but if you’re a felty person that might not mean too much! A picture says a thousand words so have a look.
Inspired by this seasons russet and gold palette and warm Autumnal days we have dyed a whole range of threads, yarns and fibres. Wool neeps, burrs and slubs are wonderfully bobbley and add surface interest and texture to scarves and flower corsages.
Collecting apples from the garden, it’s hard not to be inspired by the seasons colours of russet and warm green. I feel a new colour palette may be on the horizon.
Autumn has now arrived, and the change in weather has brought about a change in me and Nic too! We have both wanted to update our hair. Last week Nic took the plunge and had her hair changed to a stunning red hue. Today I have bitten the bullet, and along with a much needed haircut have gone all warm terracotta auburn. Love it! Bring’s out the green in my eyes! I feel an Autumn inspired range coming soon!
We were recently asked to make several cream lily corsages for a forethcoming Winter Wedding. All the corsages were made using the same colour felt and although they were made to a uniform size of 6cm x 12cm each were subtly different. Some were decorated with cream pearl beads, others diamonte strands, while others had crystal effect and vintage beads. Take a look at the results.
We’re happy to consider your commissions. Please get in touch through the contact page.