I’m sorry that the posts have been few and far between lately – I’m having far too much fun at the museum, and haven’t found time to blog about it all while I’m at home.
I’m partly helping out on the reception desk of the museum, and partly giving a hand to the visiting artists who are providing the family workshop activities. Today we’re making and decorating plaster of paris bugs, which should be fun!
The museum has a studio full of amazing resources. I’ve been learning all about wool with information packs from the British Wool Marketing Board, and feeling inspired to learn how to make felt.
I was just having a little look around the internet for felting resources (as someone’s helpfully checked out all the books from my local library – and they’re overdue!), and I came across the most useful thing ever – polystyrene lasts for making felted slippers!
The main stumbling block (if you’ll pardon the pun) in my quest to make shoes has been that the lasts are so expensive, and difficult to buy in single pairs. I never wanted to use the lasts for hammering, only for shaping the fabric as I sew. For that, these polystyrene ones will be absolutely ideal!
Who’d have thought that a felting website was exactly the place I needed to look for shoemaking supplies?
I love those moments when you find exactly the perfect thing, just as you thought you were searching for something else.