Felt Slipper & Natural Dye Workshop - LLama Conf. 2012

I was asked to teach on how to make felted slippers.
I offered to bring a pot of silver gum leaves to demonstrate an easy method of natural dyeing.



Here you can see the leaves bundled into a muslin bag.  They were soaked overnight in filtered water.

I gathered the leaves a couple of weeks ago after a long dry spell.

At the workshop we added samples of raw llama suri locks and raw alpaca fleece.  You can see in the picture the beautiful brick red! 

The ladies brought their own gorgeous soft llama fleece and suri locks.  I was concerned that it would be difficult to felt with but you can see that they had no problems even though some had applied some fairly thick suri locks!  Here you will see some examples of the partially completed slippers.  

A great bunch, great results and a fun time!