I made progress on my 3 D sculpture, it is felted and sitting on top of a towel on one of the radiators drying with the cords that were sticking out pinned into curly tails. I despaired of it every getting made into decent felt but by mid afternoon I had whipped it into shape, or in this case I had dropped it many thousands of times and it was finally felted.  I still wonder why I chose to make the outside red and blue but I am hoping that will not be quite so obvious once I start cutting into it. It needs to be quite dry before I can start to cut so that may not be tomorrow as it will take a while to dry. But I am just so pleased to have it felted, not the same way a sculpture made of merino would have felted but it is felted. I do wonder if I worked it a bit too much before I  pulled out the resist and put the cords in.  Only one way to find that out and that would be to make another one and that won’t be happening right away.

After lunch Johanna, the Centre’s director, talked to Amanda and I about the history of the Icelandic sheep, We are both very interested in all things sheepy. Johanna showed us the short and extremely long hair shorn from the sheep and then she carded some and spun on both a spinning wheel and a drop spindle. It was very informative, it gives me a lot more understanding of the Icelandic sheep.

Late afternoon I went to the bank to exchange some money, then to the pool to water jog for 15 minutes and then sat in the hot pool and finally to the grocery store. I am starting to recognize some of the people who work there and they really have stuff that I would not have imagined. They have Campbell’s soup and lots of Cadbury chocolate and stuff from around the world.  Who would have known that.

I did not get my after lunch nap as Johanna was here so I may try to make an early night of it.