Yesterday I had a great day at the Knitting and Stitching Show at the RDS in Dublin. Carmen and I left at 7 o'clock to beat the worst of the traffic and we arrived at the RDS by about 9.30am. Because we were both doing...
I have been making a series of felted beads to incorporate into some new necklaces that I am making for another exhibition that I will be participating in. Yesterday I was contacted by Tunde from KOZO studio and gallery to say that my submission had...
I finally succumbed to the lure of Carmen's new drum carding machine! To date I have been more than happy with the variety and quality of commercial fibres on offer but finally I have tried mixing my own and have to confess that I could...
The dates for the 2 felted rug workshops with master Turkish feltmaker Mehmet Girgic have now been set. The first dates are Friday 16th to Sunday 18th January and the second workshop takes place from Tuesday 20th to Thursday 22nd January inclusive. Places are limited to...
I ended last night and started this morning by stringing a few more simple but stylish felt necklaces. Some of them were made entirely from felt beads or balls, some were felt and vintage buttons and one was felt with a beautiful hand painted African button as...
Yesterday I put the last finishing touch to some of the items that I have sent out in the Autumn swap. These necessary but fiddly touches really defeat me sometimes so it was really good to have a deadline to work towards, things like putting...
Hi everyone, I have just been tagged for the first time and had to do a little bit of research to see what this actually involved! Thanks so much for the tag Joni. Here are the rules: Link to the person who tagged you. Post the rules on...
Yesterday I made two more felt vessels, one tall and one a kind of funky shape, it was inspired by a pumpkin! I took a few photos of them and hopefully will upload them here tomorrow if the uploading tool decides to work OK. The fibre...
Enjoyed a busy but fun couple of days and still only 15.53 Irish time! Carmen and I drove to Dublin yesterday morning to join in the Feltmakers Ireland Wednesday session, my first time actually managing to attend. It was great to catch up with old...
Started today with a big clean up around the Rayburn, maybe it didn't like me putting my felted coils in it or something but on Friday the range decided that enough was enough! Anyway, I had just got a delivery of oil so maybe the...
FELTING AND EMBELLISHING COURSES Check out my new workshops page for all the information and to book your place at the upcoming Sigrid Bannnier, Mahmet Girgic and Sheila Smith workshops. Both Sigrid's and Sheila's dates are confirmed and places are limited so please move quickly if you...
Where do I start. It has been a busy couple of days finishing my work for 'Breaking Out', delivering it to Kilkenny, organising 3 felting courses and discovering that my blog has been mentioned in an article by Marie Boran for Silicon Republic and the...
Had a great day today on the felting front. First thing this morning I called over to Carmen and thankfully she was a little better although not fully recovered from her virus or whatever. As a result we had a spot of breakfast and I...
Carmen and I had intended to meet up at mine this morning and settle in to a productive mornings felting. Unfortunately poor Carmen has picked up some kind of bug or virus and was totally unable to make our session so I called over to...
Today I tracked down the parcels that Carmen and I have been waiting 2 weeks for, they had got bogged down in Gorey of all places! Anyway, instead of spending a full day felting I hot footed it to Gorey this morning and was thrilled...
