This morning I have had to cancel my proposed training with Failte Ireland in order to concentrate on preparing for my last sessions in the 'Craft in the Classroom' project and to finish designing the race card for our Green Party fundraiser this Thursday night. Because...
I had a very enjoyable time yesterday at the monthly get together of the South East Textile Group. We meet on the last Saturday of every month at the Demanse Yard in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny for inspiration, textile related tutorials and workshops, good food and a...
I have had some really busy days in a row (what's new) and another five days of madness to follow before I can settle down to a couple of exhibition proposals that I need to get written before the middle of April. Last week I...
[caption id="attachment_615" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Felt attachments on my tactile play mat"][/caption] We started the felting process by gently wetting and working the fibres around the edges of the various components before wetting out the whole piece and rolling, rubbing and working the felt as normal. The...
[caption id="attachment_609" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Ready to get inventive!"][/caption] As promised here are the first images from the workshop that I did with Annette Quentin-Stoll. Our first project was to create attachments that we would incorporate into a tactile play mat for a child (or child like...
Just home from helping at the last day of Annette's workshops in Dublin. It was fascinating seeing all the weird, wonderful and fun creatures created, bugs, slugs, chameleons, birds and much more. I got some brilliant images of the felted creatures in the garden of...
The two day workshop that I attended with Annette Quentin-Stoll was wonderful! We learnt some amazing simple and obvious new techniques (more to follow in Monday's post) and how to build up on the knowledge that we already had in a different way to create marvellous...
Wow, I am so excited to be attending a two day workshop with Annette Quentin Stoll! The following text is taken from Feltmakers Ireland's info re the workshop ...
Still think that I have a touch of a virus but thankfully I was a bit livelier today so got the Drumlea blog updated and made two pieces of nuno felt. The first was a kind of experiment in silk chiffon and merino worked in a...
I seem to have picked up some type of virus or something and my throat feels about twice its usual size hence this brief post. Sara from 'Working with Felt' asked me to write a tutorial for a felting challenge so I am putting it out...
[caption id="attachment_584" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Design laid out and ready to fill in on our wall hanging"][/caption] Gosh, we had some action packed sessions in Drumlea this week! I am still recovering and expect it is going to take a couple more days before I fully recharge!! ...
[caption id="attachment_577" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Small wallhanging to show pupils in Drumlea"][/caption] I have been very busy getting a game plan in place for my next sessions in Drumlea. This sample wall hanging is one I made at the end of last week by laying out the...
Just a really quick post to say that I have been felting mad over the last few days and also writing up the 'Craft in the Classroom' blog for Drumlea. Thanks Deb for leaving a comment for the children, they were absolutely THRILLED! I know...
Yesterday afternoon I called over to Carmen's house to see how her new studio is progressing. Her partner Peter has spent the last couple of weeks working almost full time on this shed conversion and I must say that the results look great! This was...
[caption id="attachment_555" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Margaret's natural felt vessel"][/caption] Here are the images as promised of the beautiful felt vessels that Margaret and Bridann made with me at the beginners felt workshop on Saturday. Because they had learned how to make a piece of flat felt in...
