colourful wool fibres in foreground with weaving equipment in background

Felt Fine and Feeling Fine

Felt Fine and Feeling Fine

Felt Fine and Feeling Fine

Felt Fine and Feeling Fine

Felt Fine and Feeling Fine
Felt Fine and Feeling Fine

'Feeling Fine' is another joint initiative developed by Live Life Aberdeenshire’s Arts team in partnership with Aberdeenshire’s Health & Social Care Partnership, celebrating and embedding creative activity in very sheltered housing and care homes to support and promote wellbeing, building on the successes of the award-winning Felt Fine project (below).

Fibre artist Frieda Strachan and film maker Jason Sinclair, Poppycock Films, spent time in a care home in Oldmeldrum, working with residents, staff and family members. Carding, spinning and then weaving with wool, they all co-created beautiful textiles for the home, as well as sharing stories and time together.

image is in black and white and of an older lady wearing a mask using her hands to feel different types of wool on a table she is sitting at

Throughout April 2022, over 25 tenants & 10 staff in Turriff's Dawson Court Very Sheltered Housing complex worked with fibre artist Frieda Strachan and film company Poppycock Films to explore creativity as a tool for self-expression. Called 'Felt Fine', tenants were encouraged to use the tactile material of unspun wool to weave landscapes inspired by living in rural Aberdeenshire.

Felt Fine film

image is of an older man with no hair smiling whilst watching in the foreground the hands of the artist showing him how to weave
image is in black and white and of an older lady wearing a mask using her hands to feel different types of wool on a table she is sitting at
image is in black and white and of an older lady wearing a mask using her hands to feel different types of wool on a table she is sitting at

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