[caption id="attachment_1680" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Felt vessel with C1 and Herdwick"][/caption] Under pressure for time over the next couple of days as golf duties prevail! I just thought that while you were pondering on the etamine question you might like to see a couple of pictures of the vessel...
Last summer at the Felt in Focus symposium in Denmark Lyda Rump had some wonderful hand dyed fabric the like of which I had never seen before and which she explained to us was called etamine, it was 100% wool. I do remember that Lyda said it was particularily suited...
Two international felting events taking place worth noting in your diaries are the 11th Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence (a bi-anual event happening from 2nd to 7th October 2011) and the 'Obviously Felt' symposium (28th July to 1st August 2010) organised by the Danish Felting Association Grima in honour...
I am just finalising the Michigan leg of my felting trip in October and hopefully over the weekend will be putting everything together for the West Coast side of things. This is such an exciting time for me and I can't wait until I meet many of...
[caption id="attachment_1662" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Alison and Ann with their first gorgeous nuno felt scarves!"][/caption] Today Ann and Alison joined me here at Clasheen for a refresher day working on nuno felt scarves. Over a coffee we examined some work that both had done since their last session and discovered that...
The weather here is FABULOUS today, hot, sunny and not a breath of wind. OK, I am going to have to ammend that to hot, sunny and loads of wind because of course as soon as I nipped downstairs (my 'office' is upstairs as is my dining...
As promised here are some more musings re my first hand dyed nuno scarf experiment. Once I had zapped the scarf in the microwave for the second 5 minute session I left it in the bowl to cool down a little bit. As soon as it was...
The weather has been APPALLING here for most of the day. Horrendous rain and heavy winds until late afternoon meant that I didn't feel one little bit guilty (virtuous in fact!!) felting all day and I was even able to buy some food dye and have a go at my...
I guess Alan would say that I am never 'normal' but a weekend spent felting and visiting my family has almost dispelled the mental inertia caused following the completion of my bursary application and the stress of organising a big send off for our secretary at...
In case you are wondering 'wrecked' is slang for exhausted in Ireland and that is my state today, not anything worse!!! I finally finished my bursary application yesterday morning after working almost non stop over the preceeding days. Luckily I managed to drive to the...
