My students' nuno felt works 學生的混絲戟絨工作坊

Cheerful faces of my students with their nuno felt works.

週末兩天與「香港知專設計學院」主辦的混絲戟絨工作坊完滿結束， 充滿熱誠學習的同學很有創意地製作了漂亮獨特以羊毛混絲的雪紡圍巾與飄逸夏衣，同類的工作坊在香港稀有舉辦， 可能香港人對羊毛工藝可以設計四季時尚衣飾未普及，希望透過工作坊讓多些人認識羊毛這可塑性甚高的工藝.。

After a midnight storm, a sunny morning started my weekend nuno felt workshop in the Hong Kong Design Institute.

 

Explaining the use of my eco printed silk fabric.

Demo on making nuno felt summer top.

Students concentrating on their works.

Layering on chiffon to make a scarf.

Pattern design on a summer top

The curly raw fleece of Wensleydale I love.

Mulberry silk effect is nice.

Below are all the works done by the talented students.    

Wool felt is not only for cold season but also good for summer. With little wool we can do a light summer top.  To enhance it with the nuno felt textural surface is the highlight of the workshop. 

This is colorful with the feather-like. 

I provided all my eco printed fabrics just to make sure they will not "breeding" and they're "OOAK".

What made the design "OOAK" are the creative students themselves indeed. 

They're talented and aggressive even made all these beautiful pieces in the first  practice session.

Some individual pictures on my facebook

Light summer tops they made.

Thanks ladies for joining my class.  You're brilliant and creative.

What also impressed the students were the eco printing and the seamless raw fleece vest of nuno felt. Yes, for myself I'm also addicted to eco printing and wool felt inspired by others.  Hope to inspire creativity in the area.

My reversible vest.

  Will make another piece when cooler days drawing. 

Our Mid-Autumn festival is approaching.   Time flies.....

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Colorful day 意外收穫

 Today I'm on my light summer top of own leave prints.  Kind of  rose leaves, eucalyptus leaves and euca barks. These days I'm quite crazy about eco prints/dye.  My plate is full. 

On the way to office this morning, my shuttle passed by the train station, my eyes wide opened to see some blew off euca leaves with  flowers laid on the pavement.  I told myself I must  pick it up during lunch break. I rarely have the chance to get some fresh euca leaves, not to mention with flowers on. They're treasures.

There're still some blew off euca tree trunks on the slope waiting to be moved since two weeks ago hit by typhoon.  The  blew off tree with little soil still  thriving with new leaves.    Sad to have them moved out.   I plucked some fresh leaves for future use. Thought it's not offense since moving away soon ! 

 A bag full.

Call it a day with the bright leaves - I'm off home now.

Think of you Ginny.  You know I was off by bus to the station to pick the leaves.


Full look of the top, a one piece silk fabric with nuno felted neckline and fringes on shoulders. It's more proper on my girl indeed.

BTW, I've problems in putting comments on other bloggers since the "Words Verification" I never succeed, though typed correctly.  No clue why.  Any of you encountered the problem and how to tackle it?  It drives me off to the wall after 5-6 times. Friends you've visited me, I've also stopped by your post.   If you do not find my comments please excuse me.

Story of a binding book 手作小本子

 Inspired by others, I started eco print.  The more I find the wonder of leaves, the more I want to dig and experiment.

 從喜愛植物印染織物到現在用簡單加熱法將葉紋印在紙質上這是我的新嘗試, 繼而做了這小本子.

 In the past I tried leaves prints on fabrics. Now I love the subtle prints on paper.  Just  done some and made a little book with the felted covers. 

 See how it's made.....

1. Last week after lunch with colleages in the cafe near offices, I picked some wild yellow daisy, some leaves of  Melaleuca tree (paper-bark tree) , maple leaves  and blew off euc leaves. 

 2. I wet the conqueror paper and sandwiched the leaves. 

3 - 4.  All clamped and boiled in a thermo pot for an hour and stayed overnight. 

 Prints of Melaleuca are quite brown, euc leaves are bold and yellow daisy is quite obvious. 

 I also put on some other leaves of euc cinera (round ones).  I thought to have some red prints as on silk fabric but it didn't, only yellewish.  Believe due to silk is of protein.  Paper is of different materials. 

 Flat drying

Wondering what to do with these papers.

 Come to my mind to make a little book with a felted cover. 

This isthe binding book made with little curly wool fleece and...... 

 Oh, sorry I didn't alert you the cover is made with my cat's hair.  Please don't find it weird.   My cat's hair is clean and soft as merino wool. Every day I comb and save it.

Base of the cover is of chiffon, layered with cat's hair and wrapped the cardboard resist.

 Finished and embellished with the dried Melaeuca leave.

 Front cover of mirrow prints of maple leaves 

 Yellow daisy prints

Subtle and vintage look

 That's why I thought to make a vintage little book

 Marks of Melaleuca are wonderful

Mogi asked, "it's a sunny day, any news? "

 "Oh, yeah, mum's showing me something?"

 "What? mum done this little book?  Hummmm.....still got the fragrance of leaves.... "

 "Got something of me?"

 "Mum's crazy!!??"

 I'm not crazy, I'm imaginative. I want to make use of everything.  I love nature, I love leaves, I love wool felt, I love crafting.......

This little book may be a wrap up of my work after decades with the memories of working environment and workmates, also a new chapter to mark my fabulous ways of life next....

這小本子許是我的職場總結, 記載著我工作環境的花草與同事的點滴, 也會是我往後展開豐盛創作的 新一頁……
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They say hi ! 咩咩問候 " 你好嗎?"

Ever since I encounted wool felt I find the sheep are naive and innocent.  This is Wensleydale sheep with typical long and curly fleece.  She says hi to you.  She sees you smilling at her.

This is Finn sheep.  He's smart and says "are you watching me?".

Fleece from Wensleydale and Finn sheep are what I love to do recently.  I got the big supply of raw fleece  from Kim last Christmas and still playing around with them.  Just made a "skin" for a journal.

Indeed I got a free premium pack of  journal and  luggage tag.  They're of genuine leather cover and more than pretty it's own.  I just wanted to top it with wool. Below is how it's made.

1. Wet felt the mixed fleece of Wensleydale, Finn and some alpaca

2. 3. After dried, glued with a hot gun

4. 5. Use the original leather strip for closing

A finished set of journal and tag

Keep the original leather strip closure without any waste.

Set of journal and luggage tag

I like the wool texture and the mixture of the raw fleece is my favourite

A set of gift pack - only the journal was given to my friend in the UK and the tag is for my own use.

I played around the raw fleece and made lots of bookmarks for special occassions.

Keep one for my own diary.  Loving the curly locks with alpaca fleece in the middle.

These adorable alpacas are not to forget.  They're sweet.

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