Busy preparing for last ‘Craft in the Classroom’ sessions

This morning I have had to cancel my proposed training with Failte Ireland in order to concentrate on preparing for my last sessions in the ‘Craft in the Classroom’ project and to finish designing the race card for our Green Party fundraiser this Thursday night.  Because I was so shattered the last time that I drove [...]

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Success from disaster! My fulled (felted) jumper saga, South East Textile Group …..

I had a very enjoyable time yesterday at the monthly get together of the South East Textile Group.  We meet on the last Saturday of every month at the Demanse Yard in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny for inspiration, textile related tutorials and workshops, good food and a bit of fun!  Stephanie was teaching members how to needle [...]

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Felt hat, group photo from Annette’s first workshop, blogs …..

I have had some really busy days in a row (what’s new) and another five days of madness to follow before I can settle down to a couple of exhibition proposals that I need to get written before the middle of April.  Last week I participated in two different workshops relating to blogging and social [...]

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The completed tactile felt play mat

We started the felting process by gently wetting and working the fibres around the edges of the various components before wetting out the whole piece and rolling, rubbing and working the felt as normal.  The biggest difference in the way that Annette works compared to how all of us had learnt was that she lays [...]

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First images from Annette’s workshops

As promised here are the first images from the workshop that I did with Annette Quentin-Stoll.  Our first project was to create attachments that we would incorporate into a tactile play mat for a child (or child like adult!) and after a brief demonstration Annette got us started on designing and making a mat of our [...]

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Bugs and slugs!

Just home from helping at the last day of Annette’s workshops in Dublin.  It was fascinating seeing all the weird, wonderful and fun creatures created, bugs, slugs, chameleons, birds and much more.  I got some brilliant images of the felted creatures in the garden of the Phoenix Park so just wait ’till I get them uploaded [...]

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Wonderful, wonderful workshop!

The two day workshop that I attended with Annette Quentin-Stoll was wonderful!  We learnt some amazing simple and obvious new techniques (more to follow in Monday’s post) and how to build up on the knowledge that we already had in a different way to create marvellous tactile play mats, bags and hats.  At last I have [...]

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Check out this felt!

Wow, I am so excited to be attending a two day workshop with Annette Quentin Stoll!  The following text is taken from Feltmakers Ireland’s info re the workshop ….. ‘We will prefelt points, bumps, folds, pockets and tubes and add them to a sqare felt piece. The aim is to get straight edges and standing [...]

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Nuno felt, workshops, Drumlea …..

Still think that I have a touch of a virus but thankfully I was a bit livelier today so got the Drumlea blog updated and made two pieces of nuno felt.  The first was a kind of experiment in silk chiffon and merino worked in a strong yellow silk and a sparkly yellowish wool.  It is [...]

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Nuno felting challenge

I seem to have picked up some type of virus or something and my throat feels about twice its usual size hence this brief post.  Sara from ‘Working with Felt’ asked me to write a tutorial for a felting challenge so I am putting it out there to all of you felters to come along and [...]

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