Felt on Sale This Sunday

Visit our stall at the Stirling Street Arts Centre's Christmas Craft Fare

When:Sunday 27th November

Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm

Where: Stirling Street Arts Centre

Cnr Charles and Stirling Streets

Bunbury WA

We'll also be giving demonstrations of felt making.

Come along and join us for the day.

This is Stirling Street Arts Centre's BIG open day and craft fare.  There will be stalls galore,  music and entertainment, sausage sizzle, refreshments and lots , lots more. 
Free entry and parking.

See you there.

Hermes and the Seamless Felt Jacket

We love seeing what's happening in the high end of fashion and regularly read the fashion glossy magazines to enjoy the amazing creations of the European Designers.

We were rather amused to read in W magazine that French fashion house Hermes has discovered the unique qualities of felt garments and has created a seamless felt jacket as part of their autumn/winter 2011 ready to wear collection.

A Mongolian Felted Cashmere Jacket from the Hermes Autumn/Winter 2011 Ready to Wear Collection

 Hermes' new designer Christophe Lemair was amazed at the 3 dimensional qualities of felt  - no seams no darts.  Of course we can't help feeling a little superior having been designing seamless felt  jackets for years but are thrilled with Hermes discovering it. 

Read the full W magazine article here .

A Convergence is Announced

Big news!!

The Illawarra Feltmakers have announced the dates of the 12th Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence in New South Wales. 

Click here to get to their blog and read all about it.

Image from http://12thsouthernhemispherefeltingconverge.blogspot.com/

More November Show and Talk

Another piece influenced by tutors at the 11th Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence is this scarf by Lois O'Brien. 
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Designer L O'Brien

Lois attended Karen Workman's "Amazing Scarves" tutorial and smartly made one to try out some of the techniques which is really the best way of recording the tutors information.

More November Show and Talk

Here's some more felt creations; this time influenced by the talented felt sculptor Anita Larkin who was one of our super tutors at the 11th Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence.

Designer V Hornibrook

Val made the rings following Anita's group lecture on her dry felting method and the bag at Anita's "Unique Felted Bag" workshop. 

As you can see the front pockets mean your keys and phone will always be easy to find.

We love the knot detail on the bags strap -

Strap Detail

 The three pieces look great worn together as you can see here -

Bag/Ring designer V Hornibrook

Anita Larkin belongs to the Illawarra Feltmakers group and they will be responsible for running the 12th Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence in 2013.  Keep looking in on them here for news on that not to be missed felting event.