So much news, yet again so little time! Dawn came with me last week to meet the pupils that I'm working with for my 2012 CRAFTed project, they just loved her hats and in turn she just loved them singing two songs in Irish for...
Last night I finally finished as much of the book as was humanly possibly and pushed the button to start uploading the files to Chrissie, pity I didn't realise that I had previously set the computer to switch off after 5 hours, hmm! Anyway, it's...
I'm busy felting and writing today but I wanted to share some more pictures of our first CRAFTed session from Rathnure NS, thanks Taragh for forwarding these on to me. [caption id="attachment_3594" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Building up the design in layers"][/caption] Teacher Taragh contacted me yesterday and said...
It's very busy here this week and will be until Dawn Edwards and Chrissie Day arrive so I'm going to post briefly with bullet points today! I've just confirmed my flights a few minutes ago for my U.S. trip in May. I can't wait to be...
My neck is really tingling now (from an old injury) so I know it's time to call it a day and stop felting and/or using the computer! Thankfully I've had a full day working, the market in the morning (very quiet today, no sales but...
I've been to the library, discovered I've won some gorgeous hand spun from my buddy Heather, run a wash, stocked up on brown soda bread and milk as well as 100 dressmakers pins this morning (more in a minute) and now I'm ready for a...
On Wednesday evening we had a fantastic open night at Presentation PS in Kilkenny. The girls displayed all their amazing work from our CRAFTed project and screened the video footage of exactly what was achieved during our time together and with their teacher Mairead in...
Unfortunately there has been an unexpected scheduling problem at Urban Fauna Studio in San Fransisco, rather than cause endless problems for myself, Jamie and Blas we have decided to change our 2 day Spring workshop to the Fall instead. I am really sorry for any inconvienience to...
Over the next few days I hope to upload pictures from our last CRAFTed session in Kilkenny. Some of the girls have taken more images and these will be send to me on a disc but for the moment here are 3 pics from this...
Our final joint session for CRAFTed takes place tomorrow morning but I am not saying that our collaboration ends there, rather it moves into a new phase. By lunchtime the girls will have finished their individual projects and hopefully be well underway embellishing their squares for the group wall hanging. ...
[caption id="attachment_2483" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Laying out merino for the inside of a beret"][/caption] Friday's CRAFTed session was chaotic but fun, all the girls are going to have beautiful items to take home with them as a reminder of this transitional year at the school. Working with...
Well, finally I have managed to upload new information, class descriptions etc. on the workshop page about the felting on offer in Kentucky this May but after almost two hours of trying I am almost at my wit's end!!! I had hoped to have all the info for both days in KY...
Only a few words today because I used most of them up with sixth class this morning!!! [caption id="attachment_2417" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Having fun adding the surface decoration"][/caption] I was blown away by how creative everyone was. Each pupil was asked to choose two colours to use as...
