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• Drop in Wednesday 22 January 2025

  • When
    22 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Scout Hall, Kett Street Kambah ACT

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   Drop in Wednesday 

  Join a social day felting with fellow felters. This is a relaxed, fun time when CRF members can explore felting techniques, work on a project of your own choice alongside other felt makers and share ideas. There may also be collaborative projects happening. Bring your own wool and felting equipment.

  The CRF shop is likely to be open.
  

  Registration is essential
  

  Payment for the day of felting can be done online when you register or by paying the invoice online, by direct deposit. The fee is to cover your share of the room hire costs for the day.

  You can also just drop in to visit the shop or say hello. Please register but there is no charge for this.
  

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• Saturday Meeting January

  • When
    25 Jan 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Scout Hall, Kett Street, Kambah.

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   Saturday MEMBERS Meeting 
  

  What's happening at this meeting for members:

  10am - 3pm    Silk Dyeing activity                   
  

  10am - 1pm    CRF Shop and Library            
  

  12.30pm          Lunch    
  

  3pm                  Close

  Activity: Silk Dyeing

  Come and learn how to make gorgeous coloured silk to use with your nuno felting projects and other garment applications. We will be colouring silk using Landscape dyes. Find out:

  • how to use Shibori techniques to add patterns
  • how to mix and apply dye
  • how to use dye pots, microwave and steaming pots to set dyes

  Instructions on how to use landscape dyes will be available and these dyes can be purchased from the shop to take home.

  What to bring

  • Silk fabric: There will be white silk fabric yardage and scarves suitable for nuno felting available for purchase from the shop. If you have washed silk fabric in your stash, either white or coloured (if you want to overdye it), you can bring that.
  • Bucket
  • Pegs
  • Small sharp scissors
  • Rubber or latex gloves
  • Plastic table cloth (if you have one, some will be provided)
  • Items for shibori eg. twine - cotton, jute, synthetic string or fishing braid are all good, marbles or glass pebbles (if you have them, some will be provided), bulldog clips/pegs

  

  Registration is required. Please choose the Meeting + Activity option if you are doing the activity. Payment can be done online using PayPal or by paying invoice by direct deposit to the CRF bank account. Using the Wild Apricot Members App is a quick way to register and pay.
  

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• Basics and Beyond

  • When
    15 Mar 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Scout Hall, Kett Street, Kambah (beside the Burns Club)
  • Spaces left
    10

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   WORKSHOP 
  

  Ever wondered what felt is and how it is created?

  Canberra Region Feltmakers offers one day workshops introducing those new to wet felting to the basic skills needed to start creating your own beautiful felt pieces.

  In Basics and Beyond your tutor will guide you through techniques for laying out wool, wetting down, rolling, fulling, and most importantly, how to tell when your felt is fully felted. You will also explore a range of felting techniques to embellish (aka decorate) your flat felt.

  After introducing you to the basic skills of felt making, your tutor will assist you to create a unique project to take home.

  We look forward to sharing the magic of felt making with you.

  

  
  

  YOUR TUTOR: Lynn Petersen.

  Lynn has been a feltmaker for 20 years. What she loves most about felt making is that it is a very forgiving art form and often surprises her with unexpected results.

  Lynn has worked with a wide range of people to help them discover the joys of felt making: from classes with school groups, seminars at conferences, workshops for CraftACT and leading community felting projects to create large scale works.

  Her current interests include exploring how felt making can intersect with other art forms to communicate ideas and connect communities. Her latest multi-arts project 'Small Blessings' held at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre (TAC) involved a great deal of community engagement whilst making felt.  Her next community project to hit the streets, 'Words In The Wind' (supported by TAC), features the creative use of textiles to explore and communicate ideas about place. 

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  Workshop level: Beginner

  What materials are provided:  wool fibre and felt making equipment.

  What to bring: 

  • 2 x old bath towels
  • 1 x plastic bucket or plastic bag (to take home your wet felt)
  • Sponge (or dish cloth) to mop up excess water
  • Disposable latex gloves if hands are sensitive to water or soap
  • Scissors
  • Notebook and pen

  Food: Please bring your own lunch and snacks. Tea and coffee will be provided.

  Cancellations: see Workshop Terms and Conditions.

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