Quite a lot of exciting things to talk about this morning and not so much time to write everything down! Starting with the sneak preview, here is a detailed image of the silk and corn fibres (turquoise and white respectively) that I combined with Icelandic wool for my...
Apologies for my lack of posts over the last few days. The internet connection has been extremely sketchy, must be something to do with the fact that our weather has broken at last and amazingly for this time of year farmers (and the golf course) had actually been praying for rain! I have been working...
Yesterday morning I was able at last to start work on the first of a series of tall felt sculptures. Although I need to tidy the studio up yet again (what's new?) and get some paperwork out of the way it was very satisfying to actually...
My second shibori experiment on St. Patrick's Day was this simple cowl, again felted using merino, cotton gauze and silk. [caption id="attachment_1598" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Spice shibori cowl"][/caption] This time my design had a hole at one end through which the cords pull through from the opposite end to close...
My felting experiments yesterday were fun, fun, fun. Amazingly I had decided to experiment with a shibori felt wrap/cowl affair only to discover when Carmen arrived that shibori was also what she had planned to do and neither of us had breathed a word of...
Thanks to all of you who have either emailed me directly or left comments here and on Facebook wishing my sister Suzanne a speedy recovery, I will pass your messages on. Both she and my mother came to Clasheen late yesterday afternoon for our delayed Mother's Day...
Well, a quick post to let you know that whilst hiking at the top of the highest point of this region in South Eastern Ireland my sister slipped and broke her wrist badly on Saturday. I had just taken a picture of Alan, Suzanne and another friend...
The natural mohair locks that I brought home from the States are a gorgeous mixture of silvery colours and I thought that they would combine beautifully with some more 16 micron merino from Filzrausch, this time a black and white roving perfectly named 'Zebra'! [caption id="attachment_1567" align="alignleft" width="300"...
For part of the New Year Secret Scarf Swap that I am participating in on Ravelry I wanted to felt a gorgeous and soft scarf for my swap buddy Krysotfer. I had decided to work in an amazing soft 16 micron merino which I had bought late...
I am delighted to have this weekend over with (check out Clasheen Uncut if you want an idea of the nitty-gritty details) and at last I hope my time becomes freer to allow me to concentrate on some serious felting over the coming weeks and into the Summer months ahead. There are a...
I am not sure if I have just been staring at my computer screen for too long but my eyes seem to be blurry and my ears are tired of trying to select some royalty free music to accompany this 'pictorial tutorial'! Feel free to...
Thanks for all your encouraging comments about my first podcast, I will definitely take everything on board and over the next while plan on videoing some interesting interviews and other felting footage for you to enjoy! In the meantime I decided to document my work this morning and...
This is not a proper movie I know but here goes with my first experiment adding both an audio and a visual element to this blog, please have a look and let me know what you think! Thanks again Ken, John, Alan and Cathy for facilitating such a...
Today I spent an interesting, stimulating and intense day at the ArtL!nks audio/video podcasting course in Kilkenny and it has really opened my eyes up further to the opportunities available for recording some of my day to day felting activities here at Clasheen. Many of you...
