Felt and art, a universal language!

One of the brilliant knock on effects of nominating inspirational blogging friends for an award is that you get to check out all the blogs that they in turn recommend!  Although I have not had time yet to check out all these new recommendations a blog that I have visited and would love to mention is Magic [...]

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Pictures of finished rug and ‘Creative Blog Award’

This morning as promised I was able to take a photo of my completed rug!  I know that this type of angled shot distorts the shape somewhat but I think that it is quite obvious how the sky area has shrunk more from left to right than the bottom section demonstrating clearly that the way we [...]

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Horrah, I finished felting and fulling my rug!

This evening I finished felting and fulling the rug I made at Mehmet Girgic’s workshop last week.  With all the excitement and action of organising the 2 workshops I didn’t get my rug worked and shrunk as much as I would have liked during the course.  Today I was at Woodbrook with Giles and Alexandra [...]

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Seamless felt bags and New Year swap update

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 usual started the morning with a coffee and chat in the beautiful light filled restaurant/coffee shop.  Our [...]

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More images of felt rugs in progress

For some reason I am having problems today uploading images to my blog so if you are looking forward to images from the second rug making workshop check out my Flickr photos.  I have also uploaded a short video there showing Carmen, Mehmet and Maeve rolling and kicking the rugs!  Hopefully tomorrow my internet connection will be [...]

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Second rug making workshop over and Mehmet returns home

Yesterday our second rug making workshop with Mehmet Girgic ended and another happy bunch of novice and experienced feltmakers went home with completed projects.  Again it was really interesting to see how everybody’s style was totally individual, over the weekend I will upload more images and you will all see exactly what I mean.  At [...]

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Our beautiful felt rugs (and bag!)

At last my internet connection is working again and I can show you the beautiful results of our first rug making workshop with Mehmet Girgic.  We spent a fantastic weekend working and learning the Osman technique and I am sure you will agree from the accompanying photo that all our effort was time well spent.  One [...]

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Ravishing rugs!

Day one of the first Mehmet Girgic workshop has now officially ended!  Nine rugs are lying in state in preparation for tomorrow morning and it is fascinating and exciting seeing how everyone’s work is progressing. Obviously I will get time on our day of rest (Monday) to update you properly but thankfully everything is going [...]

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Mad days, last chances and thanks!

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 to the printer or to a cd, my old one [...]

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Rug making workshops and submission

Yesterday I was down in Woodbrook House with Giles organising the layout of the room for Mehmet Girgic’s rug making workshops.  The bases that he is bringing over from Turkey are actually a lot larger that we used in Germany so while this has the advantage of a much bigger finished rug it meant a bit [...]

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