I took my saleable felted items, shown in last week’s blog, to
Gresford and sold them all. Not only that, I received orders for 6 more, mainly
poppies!!! So as you can imagine, I have spent most of this week attempting to
fulfil these orders. I don’t want to do items for sale constantly because that
would be like mass-production and it would be a very repetitive process. I
would rather move forward and develop my skills, building on the groundwork I
have laid so far. That said, this foray into selling has given me a focus, a
means to an end, and I find that working to order is very productive; I am almost
churning them out! But that’s not who I am, I need to make creative progress for
my own peace of mind. Anyone who is creative knows that it is scary playing
around with ideas and seemingly making no progress, but nothing is ever lost
whilst playing. My playing with felt has allowed me to find out how to use the
fibres and felt them successfully wet and dry, I have discovered how I
personally like to work with felt and I have enjoyed discovering that I can
actually ‘paint’ with the strands of colour. Very satisfying! Here are some of
the new book covers.
Next week I will run through the method I have fine-tuned to
cover a book. I have tried many ways but now have an all-in-one method that
suits me. In between all the felting, I found time to get out my ready-bonded
fabric bits and, just to ring the changes, I tried a wash of colour with some
of the off-cuts. This is A4 size and I likey a lotey!
Whilst child-minding this week, I made a café for our 2 year
old granddaughter. We had a cooker, utensils, crockery, plasticine cakes and
other goodies, and we set out some small tables with table cloths. After a
while, I asked my husband to continue playing with her whilst I went to prepare
our lunch. This is what I came back to! Katie just continued to serve him
despite his comatosed state!!
Childcare Granddad-style
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