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Archive for July, 2008
1722 hits and counting
Posted in Felt, tagged bag, blog, Breaking Out, counter, Craft's Council, Felt, Felting, found items, Irish Green Gathering, shibori, vessel on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Making cords the Australian way!
Posted in Felt, tagged 3 dimensional, 3d, Add new tag, Anita Larkin, bubbke wrap, cord, cords, dry felt, Felt, Felting, fibres, inserting wire, sculptural, sculptural felt, sculpture, techniques, workshop on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Before I discuss the new way that we learnt of making cords at the Anita Larkin workshop, I just want to say that all the techniques we tried over the weekend ultimately unite and allow you to create exciting scupltural 3 dimensional pieces of felt! At first it seems that learning how to make cords is very [...]
Using a wire brush while felting! Silk paper workshop.
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, Castlecomer, cords, Demense Yard, dyes, experimental, fellting, Felt, fibre, inclusions, inspiring, Kozo, Kozo Gallery, paper, prefelt, resist, sculptural, silk, silk paper, South East Textile Group, suede, Thomastown, Tunde Toth, wire brush, workshop on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An amazing tip learnt during the Anita Larkin workshop concerns the use of a wire brush! People had brought different sized brushes to try, but for fairly small pieces of work a suede shoe brush seemed perfect. We used these when repairing a seam or depression caused by uneven rolling, attaching an object or closing the hole [...]
Australian versus European wet felting techniques
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, Australian, ball, bamboo blind, European, Felt, Felting, fibre, fibres, merino, sculptural felt, techniquew, wet, wet felting, wire brush, wool, workshop on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks very much to all of you who are sending me emails and posting such nice comments on my blog, it is really nice to get feedback from my peers so please keep it up!
As promised I am going to write several posts over the next week or so about the various different aspects of sculptural [...]
Felting update
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, balls, cords, Felt, Felting, Feltmakers Ireland, Irish Green Gathering, pockets, resists, sculpture, workshop on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have just returned from an inspiring weekend workshop (organised by Feltmakers Ireland) with Australian sculptor and feltmaker Anita Larkin. We were learning several different techniques, making balls, making cords, covering an item and creating pieces with multiple layers (via multiple resists). If this sounds like work that you may already have done WAIT UNTIL [...]
Exciting news re. ‘Breaking Out’!
Posted in Felt, tagged Artlinks, Bernie McCoy, Breaking Out, Craft's Council, emerging maker, Kilkenny on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am really excited today as I have just recieved a letter from the Crafts Council informing me that I am one of the emerging makers that have been selected for inclusion in ‘Breaking Out’. This means that I get the opportunity to work with the curator in creating a body of work that potentially [...]
Fun felting afternoon
Posted in Felt, tagged beads, Fabric, Felt, Irish Green Gathering, necklace, Nuno, nuno felt, resists, scrim, slippers, textile, vessel on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday afternoon Carmen, Polly, Joan (a New Zeland friend) and I got stuck in to some serious activity. Joan and I had been working on the Irish Green Gathering all morning and felting was just the way to spend the afternoon. Carmen brought along a gorgeous selection of felt beads that she has been working on and [...]
Scrim ready to nuno felt
Posted in Felt, tagged Anita Larkin, Australian, bags, batik, dye, Fabric, Felt, Felting, Feltmakers Federation, Grennan Craft Mill, Nuno, scrim, sculptural, vessel, vessels on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am really looking forward to experimenting with the scrim that I batiked (is that a word?!) last week during the course that I participated in at the Grennan Craft Mill, Thomastown. The fabric took the dyes brilliantly and I intend to make a couple of vessels or bags tomorrow when Polly and Carmen call over for [...]
Nuno felt incorporating batik, exploring options
Posted in Felt, tagged Add new tag, bag, batik, craft, dye, Fabric, Felt, Felting, Grennan Craft Mill, Nuno, nuno felt, scarves, scrim, silk, Thomastown, vessel, waxing, Wollknoll on July 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week I am on an excellent batik course at the Grennan Craft Mill in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. Facilitated by Alexandra Meldrew, our diverse group are basically having a crash course in different techniques and applications of this facinating craft. My idea was that after the week, skill peremitting, I would be able to incorporate some [...]
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