Swap partners are now up for the Flickr Clasheen Crafty Swap so if you are one of the current participants please ENJOY!!! These swapping events are meant to be fun and I just want to take this opportunity of thanking everybody who has participated to date and welcoming new...
Just organising the swap partners tonight for our first Clasheen Crafty Swap of 2011! Welcome to all returning swappers and a big hello to our new members, you are going to love this event!!! I am almost back to normal today, probably about 90% of my usual...
Thankfully my proposed Saturday workshop has been moved until next weekend as this flu, while getting a little bit better is still a long way from over. It is so frustrating to go from hot to feverish and bathed with sweat in the blink of an eyelid and tired to exhausted...
I am still waiting for my delivery of Icelandic wool to arrive in preparation for the large rug I am felting my father's cousin Sylvia, hope there is no charcoal getting in the way! In the meantime my sister commissioned me to create 36 small...
Exhausted ...
I had intended blogging about the wonderful package I recieved yesterday from Gill aka tisserande for my second bite at the Clasheen Crafty Swap but as I have not been able to take photos today (totally tied up finishing pieces for the RDS National Craft Competition) I promise to...
[caption id="attachment_1743" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="My fantastic swap package"][/caption] I discovered to my horror over the weekend that I only have until the end of this week to finish three sculptural pieces ready for a joint exhibition in June (need to get to the venue beforehand) and complete my...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The first pictures are now being uploaded to our Clasheen Swap group on Flickr and I have to say that there have been amazing packages winging their way to swap partners all around the world. Many of the participants decided to wait until 25th December...
Carmen called over for a cup of tea and a chat this morning, we actually hadn't met for over a week as both of us have been so busy in the run up to Christmas. [caption id="attachment_1296" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The finished felt bag, new handles attached!"][/caption] I...
Following on from yesterday's post about Carmen's great new book 'Dutch Felt', I did an internet search this morning and discovered that it is available directly from the publishars Zijdar. When I get a few spare hours (whenever that is!) I am planning on trying out Ria's...
In response to some of your comments re. the silk laps I also find that they can 'catch' your skin as you are laying them out but definitely not as much as silk hankies do. What I like to do if my hands are...
Well, I have just spent an extremely frustrating and puzzling time trying to locate my blog post and images of the printing on felt from yesterday. I knew that it had gone live thanks to your welcome comments so imagine my surprise this morning when I was giving...
There never seem to be enough hours in a day to fit in all the things that I really want to do. Luckily my flu is now 90% over so I am starting to plough through all the paperwork and outstanding letters/emails etc. that built up...
I have now uploaded some images of the felt vessels that I made for the Blueprint exhibition to my Flickr account. With the exception of one bowl I decided to use all undyed fibres and keep the theme simple and stylish. Probably the vessel that I am...
Unfortunately we have had a stressful weekend because Alan did not get elected to the local council and it was not until 23.30 on Saturday night that we knew the result for sure. Thanks to all of you who sent good luck messages to us...
This week I have only been able to make one felt project, a tea party inspired piece of flat felt which is now on it's way to the USA for an Alice in Wonderland Flickr swap. It was great to be felting again and...
Wow, I got some GREAT packages in the post last night!! Check out Lizzie Houghton's new book 'Felting Fashion', it is brilliant but especially if you are interested in creating wonderful nuno felt wearables! [caption id="attachment_724" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Felting Fashion by Lizzie Houghton"][/caption] I first read about this...
Felted tote bag with detatchable corsageI am really exhausted this evening as I have had another training session for my tourism course and have been trying to tidy my house in preparation for tomorrow morning's workshop, obviously it is the tidying up that has worn me...
[caption id="attachment_510" align="alignleft" width="128" caption="Brilliant swap package!"][/caption] Wow, I recieved my swap parcel from Dawn Edwards and it was fantastic! It is amazing to post a friend part of your stash and in return receive part of theirs, you never know what will come out of the...
[caption id="attachment_449" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mari's seamless felt bag"][/caption] The South East Textile Group held our first meeting of the year last Saturday and it was my turn to share some skills and facilitate the workshop. We met at the Demanse Yard in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny and as...
Well, today was a mad day and I definitely think that yesterday must have set the target for a totally crazy week! I completed my submission for 'Organic Geometry', an upcoming exhibition at the National Craft Gallery. My new laptop wouldn't send either documents or jpegs...
Yesterday was Felted fingerless mittens a day and a half! Early in the morning my delivery of short fibred merino arrived from Filzrausch and boy was I excited. I really wanted to get stuck in and felting straight away but I knew that I had other things that...
Thanks everyone for responding to the last few posts that I have published in relation to the road sign. I have to agree with those of you who said that it did NOT explain what I was doing, I know it doesn't but I also agree...
