tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105320604388615312024-03-13T08:06:39.449-07:00gill pinkney feltcolourful & quirky wool & felt accessoriesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018888855042796751noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10532060438861531.post-91303471429204912542013-03-15T17:30:00.000-07:002013-03-15T17:30:19.459-07:00thistles and other things<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello again, and apologies for being so quiet again for a while. I did say in my last post that I was hoping to get back to regular blogging after the Christmas rush, well....things haven't gone quite to plan. I was ill with a horrible chest infection over Christmas and since then I have been enjoying tackling some really interesting commissions. The first was from a lady who asked me to make her a felted centre piece for her table, she told me the colours she wanted me to use but other than that left the design up to me. I felt quite daunted at the prospect to start with but once I got going I really enjoyed the challenge.</div>
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I laid out the fibres incorporating pieces of silk and cotton fabric and this was the finished piece....</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I then had another commission to make 18 thistle brooches for a Burns Summer Ball, lots of looking at images of thistles followed. Eventually I came up with a couple of designs, the first was a 3D design made of a number of elements, the thistle head was made by felting a ball and then stitching yarn onto it...</span></div>
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then I made the spikey leaves from felt....</div>
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This was the second design, completely different as you can see and involving stitching, beads and buttons...</div>
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The first design was chosen and here they all are....</div>
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As well as this I have had LOADS of orders for knitted infinity scarves and I'm still knitting them....and it's March !!! .....I'm not complaining though, it's great to be kept busy like this, there is an up side to this freezing weather after all !!!</div>
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I hope everyone is managing to keep warm and I hope to be back soon with a post about the new products I have been making for the galleries and gift shops I supply. Bye for now.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018888855042796751noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10532060438861531.post-8774474081765426372012-11-18T12:18:00.000-08:002012-11-18T12:18:31.386-08:00bad blogger and pesky reindeerWell, it's a disgrace I know, I haven't blogged since August, I have been a VERY BAD BLOGGER and am feeling disgusted with myself, especially since I have recently had a little flurry of new followers, welcome lovely new people!!! My last post saw me at my sons wedding which seems like such a long time ago now. Since then I have had a week away with my grandson in beautiful Fife, this was in early September. We were staying right next to a beach so Joshua had loads of fun playing here....<br />
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While in Fife the lovely Aileen Clarke contacted me and invited me for tea and scones to her beautiful rural cottage from which she runs her very successful business<a href="https://www.facebook.com/AileenClarkeCraftsTextileArt?fref=ts"> Aileen Clarke Crafts</a>. It was amazing to meet such a talented felt artist and I came away feeling very inspired.........and got straight to work to prepare for the mighty 4 day event that is Living North. Week after week spent felting, sewing, knitting and allowing myself very little time off. Anyway, it was worth it as Living North was very successful for me....<br />
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......that was the beginning of November, since then I have exhibited at a Ladies Shopping Evening and added to my list of stockists as my work can now be found for sale at a lovely cafe with craft gallery called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/madecafe">'MADE' </a>in my home town of Whitley Bay...<br />
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Right now I'm preparing for next weekends Winter Fair @ St Mary's Heritage Centre in Gateshead, Woodhorn Museum Christmas Fair and The Dome Christmas Fair in Whitley Bay at the beginning of December and a stint at my local market in Tynemouth. So ....the making continues....more reindeer, more owls, more felting and sewing....phew...I'm really looking forward to getting my feet up after Christmas when I will hopefully get back to regular blogging<br />
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A couple of weeks ago my son got married, we all had such a lovely day, everything looked so beautiful; the bride (of course), the bridesmaids (my daughter was one of them), the table decorations, the cake, the food.....but it was the flowers that I particularly loved, so bright and cheerful and colourful<br />
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Just the weekend before the wedding, I was really lucky to find lots and lots of driftwood on the beach near to my home, this was unusual as this beach is not known for driftwood, I think it must have been a particularly stormy night. I made a couple of trips and filled many bags, not really knowing what I was going to do with it. I have had an idea for a while that I would like to combine my felt with driftwood so one day last week I spent the whole day 'faffing' with it all and came up with this......</div>
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Well, time to go and put the kettle on, there's going to be lots of coffee drunk today I think, I need to finish making a collection of necklaces for the Gift Gallery in York and get them in the post and then prepare for a market on Sunday. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend......</div>
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I have so many baskets of felt; pieces left over from larger projects, they twinkle at me from the corners of my work room, the combinations of colour and texture just call out to me until I can resist no longer and I have to go through those baskets, pick out some jewels and make them into something new. </div>
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This week I have spent quite some time examining these little gems; some have silk, yarn or fabric embedded into them, and separating them into piles of complimentary colours. After cutting out some flower and leaf shapes.....</div>
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I was so pleased with this first one that I made a few more. I have named them my Posie Necklaces. Some are pale and delicate while others are bright and vibrant.</div>
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I don't know if this has anything to do with the weather but I have also been drawn to making 'watery' items this week. Fish and mermaids. I particularly like Aqua Marina, below....</div>
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.......and to brighten up the dull days I made some sparkly hearts !!</div>
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I just love stitching. It is probably one of the most relaxing things I do, apart from sleep (which I also love!!). Just sitting and sewing really makes me feel at one with myself. I've recently started to embellish my felt with surface stitch, nothing fancy, just simple back stitch in swirls, lines and circles. I've made a few felt hangings this week, the perfect excuse to indulge myself in lots of sitting and sewing.</div>
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Last weekend was really exciting for me, the choir I am in performed for the first time in my local shopping centre. It was a boiling hot day and thoroughly enjoyable. We only got together in March but I think we sound okay. Have a listen....</div>
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such a lovely day in my home town of Whitley Bay on the North East coast of England. You can see St Mary's Lighthouse in the background. I feel so lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the country and to spend my day sewing in my loft to the sound of the sea and the sea gulls. I have been adding the finishing touches to some love tokens I started making yesterday because a gallery I supply in Hexham has sold </div>
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Yesterday I wet felted the tokens and used scraps of silk and cotton scrim to decorate...</div>
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While I was doing this my friend Jayne was making beautiful necklaces using pieces of previously hand dyed linen and lace, she fondly describes as 'me scrats'.</div>
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Such a lovely day yesterday, bright and breezy, perfect for having a go at some dyeing. I am obsessed with cotton scrim at the moment and couldn't wait to see how I could transform a plain piece into something more exciting. My friend Jayne (<a href="http://www.facebook.com/JayneHewisonTextileDesigner">Jayne Hewison Textile Designer</a>) offered to show me the ropes. This is how we did the first piece.... </div>
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... soaked the scrim well in water, transferred to a dye pot of pinky-coloured dye and left on a low heat on the stove. Rinsed and squeezed out the scrim and layed it flat on the table. Mixed up small containers of blue and purple dye of varying intensity. Splodged (technical term) and brushed dye on randomly.</div>
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Here is violet sporting the finished article</div>
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And this is another piece with more subtle colour tones. Think I could become hooked on dyeing. Thanks for a fabulous day Jayne !!!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018888855042796751noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10532060438861531.post-36201237942281983012012-04-13T09:17:00.000-07:002012-04-13T09:17:59.224-07:00introducing violet...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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finally I have one... after months of searching charity shops in the hopes of finding an interesting, old battered one (<b>no chance</b>!, everyone kept telling me...and they were right!!), I had an idea to ask for one as an early birthday present. So now I have my own tailors dummy (thank you Jayne for letting me borrow your Betty for weeks at a time), her name is Violet and I just love draping things over her.</div>
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Here she is draped with some gorgeous cotton scrim I bought from Raes Rags on Etsy. I just love the colours she has used to dye this piece... </div>
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so I was inspired to make a piece of felt using similar colours and then made these flower brooches.</div>
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Here's Violet again, sporting a necklace I made this week.
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And, still on a pupley, pinky, turquoisey theme I made this piece of felt yesterday using oddments of silk and cotton and made several heart brooches from it....</div>
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resulting in a scarf not light and floaty at all, but warm and cosy!!</div>
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however, sanity returned yesterday when the hand dyed scrim I had been waiting for arrived...</div>
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... melt in the mouth summery colours of lime and raspberry crush....</div>
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had a lovely day on Saturday at Springwell Community Venue, lots going on....raffle, biscuit decorating for kids, lots of tea and gorgeous cake, grand appearance of a very photogenic easter bunny, and....customers!!!</div>
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...always find it inspiring to chat with other makers</div>
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... millie can't decide which one she likes best, but she loves to be in on a photo</div>
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....hoping to sell some at Springwell at the weekend. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018888855042796751noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10532060438861531.post-3291073553170381272012-03-02T12:38:00.000-08:002012-03-10T14:03:24.522-08:00this week I have mostly been making...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">at last....a scarf I'm actually quite happy with....made by felting merino wool onto silk chiffon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Visit my shop on Folksy. Colourful, quirky jewellery made from wool and felt. </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018888855042796751noreply@blogger.com0