Thanks for all the comments on fulling in a tumble dryer and a few replies!

Thanks everyone for your comments and emails in relation to my last post, it has been really interesting studying your replies so please keep them coming!  Not having a tumble dryer myself I didn’t even know that there was a ‘fluff or air only’ option but this definitely sounds like an interesting avenue to explore, thanks Dawn for that [...]

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Has anyone fulled felt in a tumble dryer?

I don’t have a tumble dryer but Carmen does!  People sometimes post on the internet about zapping felt in a tumble dryer for a short while but this is not something that I have ever done myself.    Anyway, Carmen was telling me that she tried it out for the first time the other day and put a rug in her [...]

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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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Felt jewellery, lampwork, felting process/equipment …..

An amazing coincidence happended the other evening (was going to say occurred but not sure that the spelling is correct!).  Just before I checked out my account on Ravelry, an online fibre artist community, I happened to pick up a glass bracelet that I bought myself on Murano two years ago.  My sisters and I took my [...]

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Finished the sign and bartering

Well, I am delighted to announce that I have completed the road sign, all be it not quite in the way that I blogged about yesterday!  Before starting the rolling and fulling again (dreaming of another 52 minutes rolling X 2 or 3) I asked myself why I didn’t do a little experiment and try out [...]

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Felted road sign in progress, keep the comments coming!

As blogged about yesterday I continued creating my new felt road sign yesterday afternoon.  This is going to be a prototype so please keep the comments coming!  Thanks to Micki and anyone who left helpful suggestions on Flickr, I need a selection of ideas for the wording, whatever I make needs to be clearly seen [...]

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Prefelt frenzy and thanks!

Thanks to all my friends and family who attended the opening of the Winter Exhibition at Kozo Gallery in Thomastown yesterday.   Special thanks to my mother Lynette, my sisters Suzanne and Lizzy, my partner Alan and my friends Cathy, Martin, Eileen, Remmy, Duncan and Helena who all make the effort to attend, a great turnout!  The [...]

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Felt rug and Podcamp Ireland

Some of you have been having problems with the link in a previous post so please click HERE if you would like to see some pictures of my rug in progress at the Mehmet Girgic course I took at Wollknoll in Germany last week.  For those of you still unable to click through here is [...]

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Printing + nuno felting

I had a great time today at the Demense Yard, Castlecomer with the ‘South East Textile Group’.  We meet one Saturday a month and either one of the members or an invited guest hosts a workshop.  Today Jean (one of our founder members) showed us all how to create and use a lino print and in [...]

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