Felt workshop.

8th November.

Today i spent the day doing more samples, i really want more development, I don not really care if some samples do not work it is all part of my development. I have done some bad and some really good and successful samples which i have used more of to get more of an idea for a final piece with, for example with my felt balls when i dropped them into the dye bath, they could have turned out really bad but they didn't and not i am using them hopefully in my final piece. I really like the idea of risk in my work and with out doing these samples i would not have learnt this. I am learning a lot about what i want to do in my work and also a lot about myself as a felt maker. I am so excited when i cut open the felt balls as they could be really bad but some times beautiful. Today in w=one of my samples i looked at my drawings in my book and tried to bring more of drawings into my felt. When i was in the dye lab i dyed a piece of felt a bright pink which at first i really did not like, i thought it looked to bright and cheap. However i i carded some white wool and placed some of the bright pink felt into the wool and started felting it, The drawing i was looking at had some bright pink in done by a high lighter and i feel the pink looks very similar to the one int he drawing. This felt also has strips of mesh in which i have used a lot in my sleuths, spies and lies project.