December - Tis the season to be jolly°°°°°°

It is that time of the year again, craftfairs, putting up the christmas tree, hot weather and finally holidays!!!

The craft fair season started for me this year in November with the traditional British Christmas Fair, but to be honest, it didnt feel much like Christmas at all, well it never does here in Buenos Aires as its too hot and Christmas and heat just dont seem to go hand in hand, as dont carol singers and heat, christmas crackers and heat etc etc etc..

in full swing

Today was my second fair, I didnt feel at all prepared for it and did stay up til the wee hours to finish off a couple of wraps to take with me. Todays Christmas Bazar started off very well with the sale of one of my favourite and most sold wraps and before the afternoon was over i had sold several wraps and scarves, had people asking about nuno felting classes and enjoyed a typical german lunch of sausages and potatoes with cream.

Setting up....

Luckily I have 2 more weeks before the next fair and so have time to make more scarves, organise a couple of private felting classes and take a 3 D felting course online!!!!!

2011, Looking back

As the end of the year is nearing I find myself looking back at the year and at the people and events that have made it a wonderful year for me.

Participating with a stand in the Design Fair in May was a lot of hard work, but well worth it! There I met Celia Mikklesen and later on in the year was lucky enough to participate in her workshops which has been a wonderful learning experience.

I am one of the founding members and leaders of the Etsy Expat Team and  have had a wonderful year chatting and enjoying the stories and daily ins and outs of this incredible group of ladies. We recently celebrated our first year as a team which makes me feel very proud. 

I think one of the most important things for me this year has been the honor that i have felt making wedding wraps and shawls for a number of brides to be. Throughtout this year i have felted silk wraps, capes and shawls for brides in the USA, Canada and Europe. Thank you to all of them, I feel truely honored.

The end is near but not here yet and there are still a number of interesting things to come, natural dyeing with my friend Adriana, a trip to Parana to see my friend Maria, and an inaugaration, a couple of craft fairs and felting classes with a wonderful lady from Canada°°°°°°°°°°

The Snow Queen

Grace

Marilyn

Eleonora

The White Witch

Lace

Needle Felted Gnome

Needle Felting

This weekend i tried my hand at needle felting. It was not the first time i had needle felted as previously I had needle felted flowers onto a poncho but it was my first attemped at a 3-D figure or head in this case. I followed pictures from a book on felting sculptures (in danish) and had the watchful eye and directions of Celia Mikklesen who also translated from the book for me, and here you can see the sculptured face as it starts to appear.

Flowers Everywhere /Flores, Flores y mas Flores!!

AUGUSTt is here already and before we know where we are, here in the Southern Hemisphere, it will be September and SPRING!!!!

In preparation for Spring I have been making flowers, lots of flowers, lots of colors, flowers for decoration and flowers to put in your hair, bridal flowers and flower brooches.  It looks like im not the only one preparing for spring as orders for flowers have already started coming in, making it even easier for me to get organized.  Saturday 10th September Flower Felting Workshop in Tigre.

LLego Agosto, y sabemos que en Septiembre llegara la PRIMAVERA!!!

Para prepararnos para la llegada de la PRIMAVERA, estuve haciendo flores en fieltro: flores para decorar la casa, para el pelo, flores para las novias y tambien prendedores de flores. Aparentamente no soy la unica que esta pensando en la Primavera porque, ya me empezaron a llegar los pedidos de Flores tambien!, si queres podes hacer tu pedido.

Este mes habra Curso de Flores de Fieltro en Florida y en Tigre. Si tenes interes aprender a hacer flores comunicate conmigo.
Taller para hacer Flores de Fieltro: Sabado 10 de Septiembre 10.30 a 15.30

Cobweb Felt

Last weekend I found a shop nearby that sells Angora. I had been wanting to include Angora in my
felting projects for sometime now so this was the perfect opportunity. I decided to use the angora in a white wrap i wanted to make using the cobweb felting technique. According to Christine White in her book Uniquely Felt, cobweb felt is a sheer transparent felt that has a holey texture and is made of long swirled fibers. I started my project today by getting together the fibers I wanted to use, merino wool, angora, and white tussah silk combed top.The end result you can see in the picture, it is a beautiful sheer, super soft and delicate looking fabric, perfect for that special occasion


 Hace unos dias encontre un local cerca que vende angora. Queria usar angora en algunos de mis projectos entonces compre. La queria para usar en un chal que iba hacer con la tecnica de Cobweb felt. De acuerdo a Christina White en su libro Uniquely Felt, el cobweb felt is transparente con una textura calada y esta hecha con mechas largas de lana. Prepare los materiales; el top de merino, la angora, un poco de seda tussah. El resultado lo pueden ver en las fotos, quedo una chalina muy luminosa y super suarve.

Silke

I had a wonderful opportunity a week ago, to visit Silke´s workshop, learn a little about the artist herself and see some of her work.
This all came about because a friend, Monica, was participating in a silk workshop at the Metropolitan University. The group would be visiting Silke´s workshop as part of the course. They would be listening to Silke talk about her experiences with silk, see and touch different types of silk and before leaving be given a tour of some of her pieces of work.
Monica fell ill a few days before the visit and after seeking permission from the organizers of the silk workshop, asked me if i would like to take her place.
 The experience was wonderful, Silke told us lots about her experiences with silk, dyeing and with embroidering the silk with her sewing machine. Best of all was the artist herself giving us a tour of her work. Below are some of the pictures i took, but better still, here is a link to her website and a link to a youtube video showing her work.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5wErPRX1U
www.silke.com.ar

 Hace una semana tuve la oporunidad de visitar el taller de Silke en Buenos Aires. La visita fue organizada por el taller de seda de la Universidad Metropolitana. Una amiga, Monica, estaba participando de este taller de seda pero se enfermo justo uno dias antes y me propuso tomar su lugar.
Hacia mucho que queria conocer el trabajo de Silke y esta fue la oportunidad!
Silke nos conto sobre su trabajo, las sedas, el teñido y la visita termino con un recorrido sobre algunos de sus trabajos... Expectacular!!!!! Si no conocen su trabajo visiten los links arriba asi los pueden conocer.

Dorrego Mercado de Pulagas/Dorrego Flee Market

 

                                                                   

Hace un tiempo queria hacer unas pantuflas de fieltro y entonces fui a visitar esta semana el mercado de pulgas en dorrego en busqueda de hormas. Cuando llegue no podia creer que organizado y limpio estaba todo el lugar. era un martes y estaba muy tranquilo... no habia mucha gente dando vueltas asi que podia mirar tranqui. Pregunte en el primer puesto y una senora me dijo que tenia una canasta con algunas hormas... me conto que las hormas estan muy buscadas en este momento como hay mucha gente que las compran para pintarlas, tambien me conto que en muchos de los puestos habia hormas y solo tenia que ir y mirar para encontrar el estilo o numero que necesitaba....en el segundo puesto encontre un par que me encanto y las compre... mañana si no llueve saco foto para mostralas... (gracias a Marcela de Decoracion Vintage Blog por las fotos del mercado.. aqui pueden ver su blog        http://deco-marce.blogspot.com/

For some time now i have wanted to make felted slippers and so this week i decided to check out the Flee market hoping to find some shoemakers lasts. I was pleasently surprised at the organisation of the market and how clean it was. I stopped at the first stand i came accross and asked someone  where i might find wooden lasts. She pointed to a wicker basket full and told me they were very popular right now and in demand as people were buying them to paint them. I rummaged through the basket and then decided to continue walking around and checking out other stalls. At the next stall i found some lasts that looked a bit more interesting than the others and so decided to buy them even though they were not my size!!! I loved the shape.... foto to come. I took a few pictures of the market but they didnt come out that good  so i have borrowed some pictures from Marcela, of Vintage Decoration ... you can check out her blog here:
http://deco-marce.blogspot.com/2009/11/mercado-de-pulgas.html