Fibrant Auckland Exhibition & Fashion Awards report

The New Zealand Creative Fibre annual festival was recently held in Pukekohe, Auckland. What a wonderfully exciting 4 days was had by all who attended. "Fibrant Auckland" was a very apt name with vibrant, colourful fibre displayed in a variety of ways and numerous workshops held, covering a huge variety of techniques, from harakeke weaving, spindle spinning, eco dyeing and of course FELTING!
MANY THANKS TO THE HARD WORKING TEAM WHO ORGANISED THIS EVENT!

I personally had a fabulous time throughout the loong weekend and attended Dagmar Binder's Chiffon Painting workshop. After the previous 3 day workshop with Dagmar here in Taranaki learning 3D techniques, this workshop was totally different and equally wonderful.  I enjoyed Dagmar's tutoring and inspiration. I also peeked through the windows at a couple of other of Dagmar's felting classes and could see others also enjoying their time. There were even more felting workshops available which gave a wider expression of the wonders of the craft.
There were  a large number of felt entries in both the Exhibition and the Fashion Awards with each one holding it's own charm.
I don't have photos of most of the entries, but will post a link below to access the Creative Fibre Website where you can see them all on display. Congratulations to the winners of the Felt and Nuno Felt awards, and others who won other awards with felted entries, Felting featured very strongly in the Fashion Award winning garments. I hope I have all your names here, if not let me know and I can add them.
In the Exhibition: Julie Lumsden, Carolyn Burton, Christine Hart, Ailie Snow and Lyn Hefky
In the Fashion Awards: Carolyn Burton, Rene Corder-Evans, Sabin Imhasly, Julie Dowland, Raewyn Penrose, Dot Wildman and... Bernice Mitchell! Yes, Me! I was SOOO EXCITED and everyone could tell!
That really put the icing on the cake for me.
Here is the link to the website and here are some photos, if you have photos of your work please email them to me so I can add them to the blog. http://www.creativefibre.org.nz/

Love Me In Red, Too! by Bernice Mitchell
2016 NZ Felters Award - Nuno Felt

Bernice Mitchell's piece in
Dagmar Binder's Chiffon Painting class

Caroline Burton's workshop piece "Bromeliad"
in Dagmar Binder's 3D felt workshop

Caroline Burton's workshop piece in
Pam De Groot's Sculptural Jewellery class