Wild about Wool 2019
Browsing in the chapel before the event starts.
Stall selling products made from recycled or up-cycled fabric in the chapel.
An explosion of colour from Twisted Fibres
Crochet poppy dress – Lest We Forget
Baby display in Matron’s office (the Dining Room)
Nearly 1500 babies were born at Poltimore House when it was a hospital. This display explains some of this social heritage.
Toys relaxing in the yarn-bombed pram.
Time to sit and knit by the Dining Room Fireplace
Lynne Dewberry workshop to make needle felted bees.
Finished bees in Lynne Dewberry’s needle felting workshop
Adding the first layer of wool roving to the silk.
Wet felted scarf workshop run by Sherril Olive of Creative South West.
Embellished wet felted scarf workshop, the fulling process
Adding layers of wool roving to the wet felted scarf.
Checking the almost finished scarf.
Needle felted owl workshop run by Lynne Dewberry.
Adding wool details to be felted.
Carolyn Ballard of Creative South West led this workshop to make a pieced nuno-felted scarf.
Carolyn Ballard showing how to add the next layer of wool.
Pieced Nuno-felted scarf workshop, adding the wool to link the pieces.
Pieced nuno-felted scarf workshop,almost finished
In the Jungle.
Monkey Puzzle tree
Pocket handkerchief tree.