Our aim is to bring to you a wonderful range of fibres and fleece, kits, fabrics and embellishments all at really affordable prices.
The next available workshop is the last Sunday in March 2012
NEWS at Craftee Wenches: Cheryl and Craftee Wench Pat have attended the 11th Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence in Perth in the first week in October 2011. Both of us had the opportunity to attend a Master class - Pat with Liz Clay from the UK and me with Anita Larkin, a sculptor in felt!
Read what our Craftee Wenches are saying about the felting experiences in our new Guest Book.
Felting tip: If you want to dye your fibre, consider making the item first and then dyeing it afterwards. This means that your finished felting will have colour exactly where you want it without movement caused by the felting process.
A sustainable and eco-friendly craft
We try to engage with
an attitude of creating a small footprint and so
our felting uses alpaca fibre from our own alpacas that live on our
property, there is minimal water usage and no chemical additives to
clean the fibre other than soap which is added in the felting process.
Generally, there is no pre-washing (other than for white) as we use the
felting process itself to clean the material created.
Our participants really enjoy the hands-on connection of making a
handcrafted item from a raw product straight off the animal's back...and
being able to meet the animal that grew the fibre. But they don't have
to work hard as alpaca fibre felts with about 80% less effort than
merino requires and the results are outstandingly beautiful regardless
of the skill level of the maker.
We use the natural fibre without dying ... who would want to
contaminate such beautiful natural colours :) but we add colour and zing
with embellishments such as silk and yarn and fabric. I like to use
op-shop treasures when I find them and locally produced handcrafts (e.g.
yarn).
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