An Autumn's Tale 秋天的童話

 

Theme of autumn - a teapot I made with the color of autumn - the birches, yellow, red....  Added to the set of woolly teapot (last post)

茶煲 (trouble),  sampan, "Table for two" ..... 可會想起 "秋天的童話"? 好浪漫的電影. 謝謝 Sammy S. 你給我創作泉源. 很喜歡我的朋友及學生不時給予靈感. 我的羊毛氈茶壺已有春、夏、秋,下次將會是冬的主題.

 

I used to make ceramic teapots.  Now I almost hooked to wool felt.  Last weekend I stayed overnight in my studio. Buried myself in the creation. That's me must have it finished overnight.

 

Wool laid with some prefelt birch trunks, stones and wool nepps as grasses.  Handle is wrapped with own natural printed silk chiffon.  Soft look of dry wool is always prettier than felted.

  

To make the yellow leaves textures I used Melinda's Wenslaydale curly wool which is my treasure.

  

With trunks, stones prefelts that make the textural surface.

   

I made the mouth bigger for storage and the stopper with some prefelts as popped up seedpod.

Finished looks

 

A teapot or a flower pot is finished overnight

 

The next day I took it to the beach near my studio for the shots.

  

Just a 10-min walk the beach near my Stanley studio is such a nice spot as not too crowded.

 

Stones, sands, water...... form the backdrop ........

 

and comes the "Autumn's Tale"......

 

"A table for two..... "

 

A sampan..... 

That's the very romantic Chinese love movie "An Autumn's Tale" reminded by my student Sammy S.  This is what I created last weekend.

I love my students and friends who always inspired my creation.  I love my studio environment not only of stunning views but also have like-minded.  The day I finished shooting I bumped into my neighbor Zeinab and her sweetie Layla.  

 

Zeinab joined my nuno felt private tutorial once and very interested in feltmaking.  I'm most happy to share the fun of wool felt.  We'd a nice chat over coffee with her gorgeous sweet after the shot.

 

Set of teapots - Spring with sprout, Summer with lavender, Autumn with birches. Theme of winter will be next creation.

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.

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