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8 Wednesday <strong>May</strong> 9 <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Our People<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
Loretta Sloan<br />
Doyleston designer wowing people<br />
Doyleston designer<br />
Loretta Sloan has had<br />
her garments showcased<br />
at the World of Wearable<br />
Art competition six times<br />
since 2010. She spoke<br />
to Georgia O’Connor-<br />
Harding about her work<br />
at Leeston’s Lakeland Art<br />
Gallery and her business<br />
Dreaded Yarn<br />
Tell me about your work at<br />
the Lakeland Art Gallery?<br />
I am a volunteer and<br />
committee member there. I<br />
think it is a great place for the<br />
community to support local<br />
artists so it gives them a chance<br />
to showcase their creations. I<br />
have had some wearable arts<br />
and other felted pieces of art on<br />
display there as well.<br />
Tell me about the business<br />
Dreaded Yarn which you run?<br />
I decided to set it up because I<br />
found there is a huge gap in the<br />
market place for hand-made,<br />
boutique, chunky yarn so I<br />
decided to create my own. Not<br />
only do I sell yarn, I do knitting<br />
workshops and workshops to<br />
teach people how to create their<br />
own novelty chunky yarn. I have<br />
got a selection of super-sized<br />
DESIGN: Loretta Sloan with the super-sized needles she uses to make chunky yarn at her<br />
workshop, Dreaded Yarn, in Doyleston.<br />
PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER<br />
needles made locally. I also teach<br />
felting. I am a textile artist, and<br />
as well as also teaching felting,<br />
I have expanded on to creating<br />
Dreaded Yarn.<br />
How long have you been<br />
taking part in the World of<br />
Wearable Art competition in<br />
Wellington?<br />
I have been entering WOW<br />
since 2010. I have had six<br />
garments accepted for the WOW<br />
show. Currently I have a garment<br />
on display at the national WOW<br />
Museum and Nelson classic car<br />
collection from the 2017 show.<br />
What has been your greatest<br />
achievement at WOW?<br />
Just getting on stage is an<br />
achievement in its own. It is<br />
worldwide. Hundreds of people<br />
enter from all round the world<br />
so just getting on there is an<br />
achievement in itself. I did have<br />
a winner back in 2011 when I got<br />
third in the children’s section of<br />
the wearable arts competition for<br />
one of my creations.<br />
What has been your favourite<br />
creation you have made?<br />
There is no favourite<br />
because they are all different.<br />
I like working and testing the<br />
boundaries and working with<br />
different materials.<br />
Are you allowed to say what<br />
you are designing this year?<br />
You can’t. Wool is my main<br />
thing I work with so it will be<br />
something either felted, weaved,<br />
knitted or could be with a<br />
completely different median.<br />
What do you think about art<br />
in Ellesmere?<br />
There are so many creative and<br />
talented people in the area. I am<br />
privileged to have met so many<br />
of them myself.<br />
I think having the gallery<br />
in Lincoln, Darfield and<br />
now Leeston, it is supporting<br />
those people and giving them<br />
somewhere to showcase their<br />
designs and art. I think it is<br />
important to nurture that.<br />
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