Five things that have inspired me on a local walk

After more than a year of restricted movements due to COVID, I have gone for a walk regularly but nothing I saw to inspire me. I did not take a single photograph in months.  On the plus side, the exercise was good.  One cold snowy sunny morning this began to change. I took this photo. And I thought maybe I will walk this way again and take some more photos. There is nothing special about this walk. It's about 5 Km, a circular route from my house taking in a local lane called Ings Lane and some fishing lakes and a disused railway track. Structures on my walk There are lots of gates, fences and a railway bridge with crumbling brickwork. Ageing Lots of items are showing their age and looking very dilapidated Maybe this is an old horse box ? Wild Flowers Slowly the remnants of the plants from last year…

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From Photo to Felt

My husband is a keen and talented photographer.  He partakes in Blip photo taking a photograph every day and takes beautiful landscapes often getting up before dawn to catch the light. Occasionally he uses software on his iPad to make composite photographs.  I love the vibrancy, surrealism and the unexpectedness of these pictures and some just cry out to me to be made into felt. Here is an example. I have been experimenting with turning these kind of photos into felt pictures for a while and like to first make a pastel sketch to work from , as it helps me think about the order of the composition.   I make prefelt  and use fabrics in order to get the strong colours and straight lines required .   I always plan to add lots of machine stitching to add texture and details after felting.  Here I am threads at the ready ,…

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