Photos coming soon

I gallery sat at "Scarf" shibori exhibition at Barometer Gallery, 13 Gurner Street, Paddington today..

The exhibition runs until the 3rd of October and the gallery is open 10m - 6pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday until then.

Worth seeing in my humble opinion.

Stay tuned

Coming,

some wonderful linen and voile shibori scarves for summer

another happy buyer

Balmain Markets

Dorie!

My facebook friend Dorie from the Netherlands is following me, Dories a whiz at natural dyeing!!

Dorie!

Rain hail or shine

I'm off to Balmain markets on Saturday next.

I've been so busy making scarves i haven't had time to write or take photos, there are some of

my new scarves on my website www.feltfirst.com under shop

joyx

Carriageworks Market last night my new suitcase & linen bag

Photo of suitcase and linen bag coming soon

Today i bought an old French leather suitcase

tonight i'm going to stencil "feltfirst" on it and take it to market. I'm also making a bag

out of Belgian linen, i intend to stencil www.feltfirst.com on it and take both of these pieces

to the market stuffed full of my wraps.

To market, to market

Shibori i.e. three dimensional hand dyed wraps

I'm making some shibori wraps for the market this week to be worn with large pins that i will acquire tomorrow. Also making up kits to sell along with instructions - many people wanted to know how to make scarves and wraps themselves.

goodnight Sophie

my only follower

hahaha

Joy

CarriageWorks is a great venue, there was

...and a few more

My stall

and a couple of my little friends

CarriageWorks Winterland Markets at Eveleigh

Sold lots of wraps, made many new friends and contacts, had great fun, chatted all day.

Fitzroy, Brunswick Street

The Nunnery Fitzroy, where i stayed in Melbourne

The Nunnery's a backpackers on one side and a guesthouse on the other, both sides have there own kitchens and laundries, lounge room with open fire and a really good vibe PLUS it's a walk to Brunswick and Gertrude streets for the best restaurants and boutiques around, not unlike Paris.

The wonderful Patricia Black our workshop tutor

http://www.patricia-black-artwear.com/

Bendigo Wool Show

Alpaca's

Bendigo Wool Show

I can't put photos of Bendigo Wool Show up

until i get home. I have some great photo's of the Alpaca's (not Llama's) and some interesting shots of the workshop
and Beautifulsilks wonderful shop in Melbourne. Of course there are also shots of the student work.

I've been to the Bendigo Wool Show

It was great, I saw the llamas, many types of sheep, some with long noble noses,
I watched the fashion parades, made lots of new friends and visited old ones.
I left laden down with fibre and silk, dye, pre-felted batts, felt from Europe
and photos of all of it, including a pic of the best eco dyed scarf I've ever seen
will post photos soon.

In Fitzroy now staying at an old Nunnery in Nicholson Street, quaint and charming
but best of all its only five minutes walk to my shibori workshop tomorrow. We had
dinner at a great Thai restaurant in Brunswick Street and now i'm off to do my homework
which is gathering corks from the bars. We can't buy corks (for shibori) for love or money and it's our job to get some tonight.

Happy Birthday Eileen and Jennifer, I know you read this,
why not follow me, you too Sophie and Gemma


Joyx

Winterland Markets at CarriageWorks (cont)

Admission into Winterland is free.

Ice Skating is a main feature of Winterland. Entry onto the 144m squared (16m x 9m) ice-rink is inexpensive, and you can pre-book your skating session. Evening skating and live music is perfect night out with friends or colleagues, or the perfect date. Click here to book an ice skating session - sessions are selling fast and some are sold out already, so we recommend pre booking to avoid disappointment.

Winterland Markets at CarriageWorks

Good Morning,

Upon my return from Melbourne I intend to take up an offer of a stall at the Winterland CarriageWorks markets
that are on Thursday Friday evenings and all day Saturdays. All information below is taken from the CarriageWorks internet site;

On Thursday nights there's a showcase of establishing bands,

Friday nights are all about fending off the cold with a little disco fever! A Disco on Ice, complete with giant disco ball, and music from Future Classic DJs.

Saturday afternoons are filled with family friendly entertainment, including a traditional dancing Gypsy band, and a hands on Crafternoon.

Saturday Nights showcase a range of Sydney’s best bands and live acts, presented in conjunction with Feral Media, Music For Trees, and Oxfam Australia.

Peruse the unique art and design stalls of the Winter Market, curated by The Finders Keepers. The Markets are open on Thursday and Friday evenings 6 - 10pm, and Saturday 11am - 10pm.

The Bay 16 Bar and Cafe, operated by GG Espresso, will be open throughout Winterland serving a special gourmet winter warmer menu.

During School Holidays, the indoor ice rink is a cool, all-weather activity to keep the kids happy. Rug up and get on the rink – awesome fun for kids and adults of all ages. Click here to book an ice skating session. School holidays are all about the ice skating - for exact opening times please check the Calendar.

Winterland is the newest, coolest event on Sydney’s social and school holiday calendar. Winterland offers fun, fresh, low-cost winter activities that will keep visitors of all ages warm and fuzzy throughout July.

Main entrance: 245 Wilson Street
Free parking: Enter at 229 Wilson Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015
(02) 8571 9099

Brilliant India Flint, her book inspired me to do eco-printing

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s2705215.htm

Packing for the Bendigo Wool Show

I intend to start an online business selling fibres to textile artists everywhere

our domain name will be www.downunderfibers.com

and I'll let you know when it's up and running

Joy

Here is the close up of the red scarf

I made a red scarf today, great colour

Peter's mad about this scarf, I made it out of red fibre, put round objects under the felt for texture, added some ribbons of silk georgette and lots of silk strands for a luxurious touch, it turned out well, I'm very pleased with it, here is a photo of me in it and then some close ups which are interesting.

Great new technique

pieces of felt have been inserted into the fleece before felting
resulting in wonderful bobbly scarves

The wonderful felted textures don't always show up

in the photos, here are some close-up shots to give you an idea..

Zoe, my little niece, has a new scarf

made for toddlers, this one is "Holey organic" and hand dyed a Kingfisher blue

and what did Sophie have in her bag

another scarf in her favourite colour

Sophie and Helmut

Seen on the steet in Surry Hills Sophie and Helmut Strohmeyer wearing my scarves. They're a good looking,
interesting couple, well known in the Surry Hills restaurants partly because of their matching haircuts and partly because
they're always out and about.

here is the second scarf in fuschia hues

completed to-day

two scarves, both holey organic shaped beauties
in fuschia and opal

My front garden

which looks lovely in winter and beautiful in summer, and my cat
Fatboy, who looks fat in summer and fatter in winter.

My first blog

"Hello, I love felting, shibori and I love dyeing. I'm still learning and next week i'm off to a shibori workshop in Melbourne, run by Beautful silks, Catherine Black is our tutor, she's an Australian woman who now lives in Sweden, she's a brilliant artist who makes shibori costumes for theatre.."