Annual Salt Spring Island Felt Retreat     Registration and info for  July   4,5,6   2018
email lauriesteffler@gmail.com

Garment workshops : "designing your own"

Breezy Silk Chiffon garment, working light and layers for nuno felting.
designing your own:
   We begin the workshop with learning how to measure and create a seamless garment resist with shrinkage allowance called a "sloper" that allows you to design on it, more than one type of garment style made to fit you perfectly.  This can be either a vest, dress or tunic and has an option of including sleeves.    We then dye and set our silk chiffon fabric base to work on and learn how to use it for our design.     Laurie helps you to execute your design and this also helps everyone in the workshop to  learn how to create many styles from each other.    Demonstrations and tips for making the felting process easier are shown as well as colour layering,  piecing silk fabrics, shadow layering, multiple resists,  pre-felts and fibre embellishments.   You can bring design ideas and photos of designs that inspire you to help you create your project.   Laurie has 30 years of felting experience and can help you create anything you can conceive.
You will learn how to felt by hand with tips and techniques that will make the felting process as easy and fast as possible.
3 day workshop

​How to create designs with sleeves/ Felted Jackets, pullovers and coats
You will learn how to measure for sleeves and create a resist with shrinkage allowance that allows you to make a felt jacket, pullover or coat to fit you properly in your own unique style.   You can choose this project to be double or single sided and as light or warm as you desire.    Laurie will demonstrate colour layering, using silk hankies, piecing different silk fabrics, shadow layering, multiple resists,  pre-felts and embellishments using merino wool on a silk chiffon base.   You can bring design ideas and photos of designs that inspire you to help you create your project.   Laurie has 30 years of felting experience and can help you create anything you can conceive.
You will learn how to felt by hand with tips and techniques that will make the felting process as easy and fast as possible.  
3 or 4 day workshop​

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Thinking In Layers And Light For Dyed Nuno-Felted Garment Art 
​design your own nuno felted garment and paint it with wool dyes:
   We begin the workshop with learning how to measure and create a seamless garment resist with shrinkage allowance called a "sloper" that allows you to design on it, more than one type of garment style made to fit you perfectly.  Laurie helps you to execute your design and this also helps everyone in the workshop to  learn how to create many styles from each other.  Demonstrations and tips for making the felting process easier are shown.   Explore a new painting medium.  Learn how to paint your nuno felted garment as if you were creating a watercolour.  You will learn how to paint in layers  and set them using a microwave. Understand how dyes work on dry and wet backgrounds and how wool and silk absorb the dye differently.  Come with an idea or create spontaneously.    Laurie has 30 years of felting experience and can help you create anything you can conceive.
You will learn how to felt by hand with tips and techniques that will make the felting process as easy and fast as possible.
3 day workshop

Eco-dyeing and botanical printing Garment Workshop
   We begin the workshop with learning how to measure and create a seamless garment resist with shrinkage allowance called a "sloper" that allows you to design on it, more than one type of garment style made to fit you perfectly.  This can be either a vest, dress or tunic and has an option of including sleeves.  This resist will be used to felt a garment which we will then mordant and dye with leaves.  We will be placing our backyard leaves on top of our felted garment to see the wonderful results of leaf pigments and combine this eco-printing with the addition of a transfer dyes process used in botanical printing to enhance the leaf silhouette.