Where to buy the hollow punches that I use on my felt

This is just a quick post to clarify details of the hollow punches that I use to cut out my thick felt beads.  The punches are often sold for use with leather and a good place to check out if you are looking to buy one is eBay, here is the link for our neck [...]

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Felting mouse, punched felt beads and a nuno felt wrap

Before I write about the felting I did over the long weekend just let me answer a question that a lot of you have been asking via email.  The ridged wooden object pictured beside the washboard in my last post is called a ‘felting mouse’.  This is a wonderful hand held tool which I bought [...]

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Image of my felt collar from ‘Breaking Out’

Just a quick post tonight after an excellent day, taught all morning and won my golf match this afternoon!  I have finally found out how to save images that have been emailed to me as jpegs, for some reason a lot of them converted to btmps and I have not been able to post them [...]

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Arms ache from felting!

My arms ache this evening after a long rolling session which seemed to go on forever!  I was delighted to get a free day to felt, especially as it was unexpected because I had been meant to play a golf match this morning but my opposition couldn’t make it.  Over the last couple of days I have [...]

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Experiments in felt, success and disaster!

Yesterday afternoon I called over to Carmen’s house to see how her new studio is progressing.  Her partner Peter has spent the last couple of weeks working almost full time on this shed conversion and I must say that the results look great!  This was a modern barn with open sides and no concrete floor, [...]

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Procrastinator’s Challenge!

One of the blogs that I regularly follow is Jo-Anne Carter’s ‘The Carter Clan’.  Jo-Anne is running a great surprise give away and has cleverly linked it in to a challenge running on the  ‘A Hole in the Basket Primatives’ blog.  Well, I know that I am really up to my eyes organising Mehmet’s trip [...]

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Brilliant fun at the felting workshops!

It’s official, the Sigrid Bannier workshops were a brilliant success for all the participants last weekend!  Due to a couple of unforseen last minute changes in our planned itinery, I had been a bit concerned (but not worried) about how everything would turn out.  Sigrid and her sister Ingrid arrived on Friday afternoon and were soon [...]

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Written in a hurry …..

I can’t believe that the weekend is almost upon us and the Sigrid Bannier felt workshops will start tomorrow.  Yesterday I was at a Crafts Council training day re curating exhibitions and met up with quite a few friends from Feltmakers Ireland.  Clodagh had brought along the beads that she made last week with Sigrid and Holly [...]

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‘Craft in the Classroom’, battle with sewing machine …

Great news, I got a phone call today and learnt that I have been accepted for ‘Craft in the Classroom’.   I am going to be teamed up with a National School in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim (a very rural area for those of you not familar with the Irish countryside) which is brilliant, Alan’s father is [...]

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Craft Fair, Etsy shop, Sigrid Bannier workshops

It’s been a busy weekend an an even busier start to Monday!  On Saturday I went down to Woodbrook House to discuss a couple of things with Giles and also to clarify the set up of our felting room and the dining arrangements for the Sigrid Bannier jewellery and nuno workshops next weekend.  Due to unforseen [...]

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