It’s been a busy week and I’m just now getting around to posting about last week’s class. We started at 9:00 am and didn’t finish until 5:30 pm. Lots of work!

 Here is everyone laying out their wool on the silk. Everyone started with at least 3 yards of  silk. Patsy is laying  out her wool. She is the only one who used silk gauze instead of habotai.

 Diane made a white on white jacket. She already has wool laid out here but it is hard to see.

 Juliane’s jacket was in various shades of blue. Paula dyed the wool and the silk. It was gorgeous.

 This is Debbie’s piece. Her silk is dyed black and blue (by Paula again) and then she used two colors of blue wool.

 Still working away.

 Patsy did two layers of wool.

 That white is really hard to see, isn’t it?

 It took about three hours to get the silk completely covered with wool.

 Just keep going girls!!

 Here Patsy is beginning to wet down the wool.

 Diane has part of hers wet,  she’s rolled up the wet end and now is working on the other end.

 Julie is getting all the air out of the wool while she wets down.

 Debbie is also wetting hers down.

 Now on to rolling. Somehow I missed out on any fulling photos.

 Here’s Patsy in her jacket. She decided to not make the lapels so wide. We’ve just pinned the shoulder seams. Everyone will sew their jacket at home.

 Here’s Julie in her jacket.

 And the back side.

 Debbie is getting shaping advice from Paula. She is wearing the jacket silk side out.

And here’s the back. I didn’t manage to get a photo of Diane’s white jacket. Hopefully, she’ll send me a photo after it’s completed. Everyone did a marvelous job and each of the jackets was unique. Success!

I am in the midst of teaching a nuno felted jacket class at Camas Creek Yarn. We had the first class on Friday and the actually making of the jacket yardage will happen this coming Friday. There is only room for four people in the class as the space is limited for really big projects. Most people need at least three yards.

 Here’s the class room before we started. We talked about nuno felting, design, color and different methods of construction for a jacket.

 Here is everyone working on their 12″x12″ samples. Then we get to do the fun part. Shrinkage and  math!

 This is Debbie’s sample when she started.

 This is Patsy’s sample. She is doing a heavier jacket as compared to everyone else in the class.

 This is Diane’s sample. She is going to make a white jacket.

Here’s Julie doing a bit of rubbing to encourage those wool fibers through the silk. Julie is planning on dyeing her jacket after it’s completely felted.

Next week I’ll show you the jackets when they are nearly finished.

 I taught the second session for the cocoon jackets today. Unfortunately, we had two students that were unable to attend. But Vicki and Diana made two beautiful jackets. Here’s Diana starting on her layout.

 Here are Vicki and Paula perfecting their rolling technique. We did LOTS of rolling.

 Diana is getting her piece warmed up in hot water in preparation for fulling.

 And here she is doing some gently throwing. After lots of work, both of these lovely ladies ended up with absolutely gorgeous jackets. We pinned the shoulder seams together so we could get the fit right.

 And here’s Vicki in her jacket. She added fringe to the ends so the fringe ended up along the shoulder seams and was a great addition.

 Here’s Diana in her jacket. She is wearing it with the silk side out. These are reversible jackets so they can be worn with the wool side or silk side on the outside.

It was a really fun class and we all learned something. Especially about fitting the jackets. Thanks Diana and Vicki for being great students, I had a blast!

 There was lots of calculating, measuring, trying on and re-calculating.

 We used newspaper and muslin to make a pattern and to see how the jacket would fit.

 Here is Judy’s sample (not really this green). She is going to make some changes on her final jacket as she didn’t like the dark blue blobs.

 This is Vicki’s sample. She is planning on doing much thinner edges and thinner strips of wool on her jacket.

This one is Diana’s sample. She is planning on dyeing her jacket after it is felted. She used a yellow piece of silk but will be using white on her jacket.

The class meets again in two weeks and we’ll be felting all day. I can’t wait to see the finished jackets 🙂

I am working on a class to make these style of cocoon jackets with nuno felt. Take a look at my recent post over at the Felting and Fiber Studio to see more. Keep an eye out on the website for Camas Creek Yarn to sign up. For those of you who are from out of town, Camas Creek has flats to rent right upstairs so you can stay and learn.