As promised yesterday, I'm going to continue blogging about our wonderful residential week felting in Portugal and today concentrate on our trip to the Museu de Tecelagem dos Meios (the textile museum in Meios) and the pieces we made using the natural Bordeleira fleece from...
At the beginning of our first session felting I asked all the participants what was the most important technique for them to learn over the course of our week together. Working with the Bordeleira wool was going to be a new experience for all of...
I'm going to divide up our marvellous residential felting experience in Portugal into several blog posts, there's a lot to report and many photos to download from my camera so I'll try to select some descriptive ones to post here as well as give you...
Alan and I are at Porto Airport just waiting for our flight back to Dublin to arrive and then depart again. It's really been a marvellous two weeks here in Portugal and I promise to write a couple of detailed posts over the next few...
Our amazing workshop in Portugal drew to a close last Friday evening, participants started to head home and by the time Alan arrived at lunch on Saturday most people were well on their way to their final destinations. I still don't have any proper Internet...
Our week long residential felting workshop at magical Dominio Vale do Mondego has almost drawn to a close. Internet connection is still sketchy here in this part of Portugal but I have managed to upload more pictures to facebook, enjoy!...
It's a beautiful day here in Portugal, I'm just sneaking a quick minute to upload a few pictures from our wonderful residential felting workshop to Facebook. Sorry there are no titles yet and only a few pics, more to follow but for now you can...
I'm just grabbing a minute at the end of a very busy but satisfying second day of our residential workshop at Dominio Vale do Mondego to jot this post, the atmosphere is one of fun, friends, food and felt! Internet connection is a little sketchy...
Today I've been nuno felting again using more of the Salvation Army and Goodwill silk garments that I mentioned in yesterday's post. Unfortunately I don't have enough hours in the day to write individual replies to all the comments I get so thanks a million...
If you follow me or Dawn on facebook you'll know by now that we had some marvellous times scouring both Goodwill and the Salvation Army stores for printed silk to nuno felt with! This is a great way of sourcing interesting printed silk in a...
It's back to a full working week here at Clasheen after all the fun and excitment of my super trip to the US. I've a lot of large nuno wraps to get felted and delivered before Thursday, I'm reflecting on the fantastic time I had...
