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    Adding Fibres to Handmade Felt

    March 25, 2016June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Adding Fibres to Handmade Felt I love making felt! It is easy to do, you can get pleasingΒ results easilyΒ and it’s a lovely, tactile thing to work with. Making felt doesn’t requireΒ expensive speciallist equipment. Some wool rovings, a bamboo mat (like the tableΒ mats people had in the 80s), soap…

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    Making Artists’ Trading Cards

    April 29, 2015March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    Over the last few days I have been using my watching-tv-hands-needing-something-to-do-time to make some artists’ trading cards. These are for a swap being organised by Vicky atΒ Lucy Blossom Crafts. As I have never made ATCs before, and being anxious to get it right, I checked the internet to…

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    A Felted Fenland Landscape

    April 25, 2015March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    One of the reasons I wanted to take up wet felting was because I felt (haha!) that the fenland landscape round here would lend itself well to the process. Because it is so flat around here, you can see for miles, and the fields give a kind of…

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    An Autumn Felted Picture Part 2

    October 9, 2014March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life

    Last week I decided it was time to start autumning things up a bit and also time to have another go at wet felting, so I embarked on an autumn felted picture. I used the woolly tufts that were in suitably autumnal colours and this was the result!…

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    An Autumn Felted Picture

    October 3, 2014March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    It’s October! Yay! Definitely officially autumn! Although it does not really feel like autumn at the moment as it’s so warm and the leaves are still more green than anything. I like autumn. Being uncomfortably hot is as bad as being too cold in my opinion. Sunny autumn…

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Wild Blossom Companion: A Gentle Beginning

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I've been thinking about how easily we can slip in I've been thinking about how easily we can slip into comparing our lives with other people's and feel that we are failing because our lives don't look like theirs.

In the end, we are all different, our circumstances are different, our children are different, our home lives are different. What might work brilliantly for one person at the moment, in the season of life they are in, might just not work for you right now.

Sometimes the best we can do is accept that the current situation is what it is. Sometimes particular things need to take priority, or there might be a weird phase we have to live through. 

But it is worth remembering that growth can look like stillness, care can be keeping things simple, wintering is a thing, letting go is sometimes necessary, and tending what is can be as necessary as cooking up something new.

This is what Wild Blossom Life is about. It's not about making huge changes to your life. It's about doing little things that help, slowing down, getting outside even if it's only for a few moments, remembering to breathe, noticing what is there, then having some kind of creative thing for your hands to do if that is what you need, without pressure or expectation.

#wildblossomlife #autumn #lettinggoofperfectionism #peacefulmoments #changingseasons
From October's Wild Blossom Companion: "This is a From October's Wild Blossom Companion:

"This is a season of layers. 

Leaves drift down to form a rustling tapestry on the forest floor. 

The hedgerows become textured with sloes and rosehips. 

The fields lie stubbled and still. 

The skies stretch wider.

There's a richness in the layering of scent and sound: damp earth, woodsmoke and the call of migrating birds."

#creativelife #wildblossomcompanion #october #slowdownandlook #autumn #imspiredbynature
Painting leaves πŸπŸ‚πŸ§‘ After making an Octo Painting leaves πŸπŸ‚πŸ§‘

After making an October colour palette with water colour, I wanted to do something else with the paint. 

So I painted some leaves πŸπŸ‚

If you feel that you are not much of an artist, it can be difficult to try, even if you really want to. Often we have this expectation that what we make, draw or paint has to be perfect.

One thing that is very clear from looking at autumn leaves is how beautiful they are in all their imperfections! The colours are blotchy. They look like they ought to be symmetrical, but they often are not. The edges are wiggly and the lobes are uneven. So if you don't paint perfect, neat little watercolours, your leaves will probably be lovely!

I already had the colours, so that was one less thing to think about. It was a joyful experiment, not an exercise in perfection. Blotchiness is required! And a pro tip if you are new to this, let the leaves dry before painting the veins πŸ˜‰πŸ§‘

#creativelife #paintingautumnleaves #creativeinvitation #octobercolours #colourpaletteforoctober #lettinggoofperfection
A colour palette for October πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘ Mak A colour palette for October πŸπŸŒ°πŸ‚πŸ§‘

Making a colour palette is one of my favourite creative invitations. October is an especially good month with all its lovely colours, tthe leaves of course, and also the berries in the hedgerows, the rosehips, the sweet chestnuts, the conkers and the acorns. The light is beautifully golden, but the grey misty days are lovely too.

Mine is based on the colours of the leaves and things I collected, but making a colour palette doesn't have to look like this! You could use acrylics or gouache, coloured pencils, scraps of fabric, yarn or thread. You could use other objects that make you think of autumn colours, or a photo.

If I was to make another, I would definitely include grey for the misty days. What do you think?

#creativelife #colourpaletteforoctober #imspiredbynature #simplecreativity #wildblossomlife
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