In the childhood I’ve dreamt practically about everything. It’s hard to name whom I didn’t want to be. This fact didn’t prevent me from becoming keen on everything: I learned to embroider and knit, I even made clothes for myself, plaited the beads, drawn, taken dance and athletic classes. My mother was saying that my keen interest to everything was my grandmother’s inheritance – she could do everything by herself!
Over the time, I grew, school and institute took over all my time. By graduation I didnt have any hobbies, so completely absorbed into my job. I thought that if one starts to do something, should do that perfectly.
This led to the fact that I became irreplaceable employee, who couldn’t even take vacation because entire work was stopping. Eventually this started to depress me. And even though my job was rather creative, I started to wish for something bigger.
At that time I got to know about felting. I took the felting workshop, where I learned the basics, and then I bought required tools and wool. And then I sat down and started experimenting, constantly continuing to enrich my knowledge using the Internet. My first results were small holiday-looking needlefelted felt-boot, and accompanying small Christmas tree – that was the new year’s eve when I started to do all of this.
By that time I was completely tired of my job, because even while sleeping I saw it in my dreams, so I said I want to quit the job. At my company noone understood that, because position seemed quite high, salary was considered good, a lot of possibilities were going to open, and I for some reason didn’t want all of that. Finally I passed entire job to my assistant, and started new excellent life, in which I can do just what I like to.
In this period I started to master wet felting technique (nunofelting) using wool with lace, silk, which resulted in my first scarf:
To be continued…
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