Let's say hello to Lexi Blakeway..
Lexi trained
as a primary school teacher many years ago, took time out to travel
and home educate her three children and live a sustainable life in
self built yurts for a few years. " Ive always created since as
long as I can remember and have taught myself numerous crafts over
the years particularly different ways of weaving materials together
which is how I moved into felting a few years ago.
I'm a Self taught
felter, totally captivated by the versatility of wool and love the
fact that I can move my work towards being totally locally sustainable.
I create textile pictures, cushions, bags etc from wool and various
other fibres weaved in, and sculpt figures/animals with needles from
the wool.
As one of the things that ties this project together
is locally sourced materials I will be aiming to naturally hand dye
as much of the wool as possible using plants local to the Lakes and
planting a dye garden at my allotment.
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