Wednesday, January 8, 2014

My cup of tea - Teapot making 我愛這杯茶

Mogi, "hey, this is Mum's cup of tea."

 Right after my workshop learning the wool felt teapot making from Pamela A. MacGregor (Tarvey Cottage Studio) a month ago, I really hooked in the creation and made a few as practice.
 自上月從美國 Pamela A. MacGregor 學會製作很特別技巧的立體羊毛茶壺, 回來後我樂此不疲的做了幾款, 為的是練習及尋找羊毛的可塑性. 終於找到我這杯茶........
 
This one was made in Pamela's studio, the first one I learnt in early winter in Ohio. Intended to make it with little green and a sprout to expect spring.  Know it's snow storm and everywhere covered with inches of snow.  The grasses are now frozen !
Got inspired by Suzanne Higgs I made two teapots with lace.  Well, they felted and clear on white.


This pair of "black & white" are tiny.  I'm quite happy to work with this size.
This one,  Aladdin teapot.  Idea came from Judy L.  She gave me this little souvenir after her trip to Dubai.  I put some silk strings and yarns for decoration.

This set made earlier with some Wenslaydale curly fleece to have textural surface.

This purple one I made with some yarns embellished to have the look of "lavender field"

Stopper with Wenslaydale curly fleece and embellished with glass beads.

Though wool teapots are not functional, I made them for fun.   This one the mouth is a bit bigger, I put a jam jar inside as flower pot.

Smaller one for a rose

"Hmmmmm, fragrance I love....  I know it's mum's cup of tea"

Aladdin  teapot with removal stopper 

Making teapot is absolutely wonderful.  I love the little sturdy objects, love the versatility of 3D making, embellishment and the combination with fibres and fabrics. 

I really enjoyed so much the workshop with Pam.  Her techniques are awesome, her studio is wonderful.  Here's my previous post about the studio.
I've a facebook page, please visit and comments welcome.

10 comments:

  1. Saw these on Facebook and came for a closer look - they are awesome.

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    1. Wonderful technique you'll takeaway after the workshop.

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  3. Absolutely beautiful teapots. Your cat is also very pretty.

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  4. Lovely to see the tea pots ..so glad you were able to take that workshop with Pam.. I see that Mogi appreciates as usual, your choices of objects to make!

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    1. Thanks Ginny. My great reward of learning in 2013 with Pam.

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  5. They look beautiful Terri, I love the way you just get stuck in and try lots of things :)

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  6. Wonderful - those teapots are enchanting!

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  7. These are so original and wonderful!!!! I absolutely love them and The Alladin lamp teapot is so cute! They are all different and very beautiful. Well done as always Terri!

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  8. I've been out of blogging for quite some time... now I'm back and I must say I am ASTOUNDED!!! by these teapots!! Absolutely gorgeous!!!

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