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- Working Girls:)
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- Amanda
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- Taking my turn at hand carding.
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- How’s It Look???
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- Carded Alpaca Fiber
Just a quick note about our carding party. We have some beautiful alpaca fiber from Crown Point Alpaca Farm (Thanks Val!) which Shannon & I want to wet felt. She has a lot more experience with wet felting that I do. Amanda was there too…not sure if she wants to felt her share of the fiber or not. She has access to a spinning wheel but needs a few lessons:)
Carding wool or exotic fibers is basically just combing them again and again until they lock on to one another and form what is know as a batt. I’ve posted a photo of some of the batts we did that night. There’s lots of info on the internet on how to wet felt and also a better explanation of carding than
I’ve given I’m sure. I’ve wet felted a couple of purses and Shannon has done lots of scarves and other things. Susan Mills is an amazing felt artist; I love her work. Check out her website: http://www.susanmills.net
We had a lot of laughs that night, not to mention Chicken Tortellini Soup, fresh strawberries Amanda brought & sweet watermelon courtesy of Shannon. All in all…a fun, productive evening.
