Felt Landscape Painting with Caren Threlfall

Caren Threlfall is a textile artist with a Fashion Textile Degree who now specializes in Felt Making. One Saturday not too long ago 17 members of the Lytham St Annes Embroiderers Guild gathered at a local church hall to have a go at making our own felted pieces guided by the lovely, patient and amusing Caren.
Despite it being heavy work - all that rolling - it was an amazingly relaxed day, but before we get down to the 4 different felting techniques; feast your eyes on some of Caren's beautiful pieces.

Cow Parsley - at least that is what we all call it. Its a very popular image at present turning up in whimsical illustrations and drawings, mixed media art and stitching - and now of course, felting.

And here it is again - lovely free machine stitching.

Tulips - and just as neat on the reverse side.

A hillside complete with sheep, stone walls and a lovely pink sunset.

A ploughed field in earthly hues, a wooded copse in the background and flocking birds. Hope they are not eating the newly sown seed!

Felted roses in a glass vase. Did you know you could represent glass in felt? 
If that has whetted your appetite and you want to know how to go about making your own felted masterpieces, then read the next post. Or if you can't wait for that and would like to take a class with Caren or see more of her work then log onto www.threlfallsartstudio.co.uk or http://www.facebook.com/ThrelfallsArtStudio