Yesterday was an extremely busy ‘paper’ day, a visit to my accountant followed by financial mentoring followed in turn by a session of business mentoring, little wonder that I didn’t actually get to create any felt! On my way back from Wexford however I called in to Carmen and borrowed her new book ‘Dutch Felt’ (Vilt in Beeld) [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wollknoll’
Another book for felt fanatics!
Posted in Felt, workshops, tagged Dutch Felt, Felt, felt workshop, felt workshops, Felting, Lyda Rump, Ria van Els-Dubelaar, Wollknoll, workshop, workshops on November 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Loads of felting news to report …
Posted in Felt, Swaps, workshops, tagged cosmetics, Felt, Felting, fibre, Filzrausch, fingerless, handmade, Mehmet, Mehmet Girgic, merino, mittens, necklace, Turkey, Turkish, Wollknoll, workshop, workshops on January 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was
Felted fingerless mittens
a day and a half! Early in the morning my delivery of short fibred merino arrived from Filzrausch and boy was I excited. I really wanted to get stuck in and felting straight away but I knew that I had other things that I just had to get sorted. As soon as I [...]
Procrastinator’s Challenge!
Posted in Felt, tagged bag, batik, Felt, felt beads, Felting, jewellery, Mehmet Girgic, Nuno, nuno felt, procrastinator's challenge, rug, Wollknoll, wool, workshops on January 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Felting, embellishing, ‘Craft in the Classroom’
Posted in Felt, tagged artists, Craft in the Classroom, Craft's Council, craftspeople, Felt, Felting, Mehmet Girgic, merino, residencies, Sheila Smith, Sigrid Bannier, Wollknoll, wool, workshops on October 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
FELTING AND EMBELLISHING COURSES Check out my new workshops page for all the information and to book your place at the upcoming Sigrid Bannnier, Mahmet Girgic and Sheila Smith workshops. Both Sigrid’s and Sheila’s dates are confirmed and places are limited so please move quickly if you want to reserve a spot!
Over the last few days I [...]
Fibres at last!
Posted in Felt, tagged Bag Lady Swaps, corsage, Etsy, Felt, fibres, flat felt, Mehmet Girgic, rug, rug making, scarflet, swap, Wollknoll, wool, workshop on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I tracked down the parcels that Carmen and I have been waiting 2 weeks for, they had got bogged down in Gorey of all places! Anyway, instead of spending a full day felting I hot footed it to Gorey this morning and was thrilled to discover that all the books, fibre, bits and bobs [...]
Felt rug and Podcamp Ireland
Posted in Felt, tagged Felt, Felting, Festival, fulling, Kilkenny, Mehmet Girgic, Michaelmas, podcamp, rug, Tinnahinch, Wollknoll on September 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Pictures of felt rug and Autumn swap buddies!
Posted in Felt, Swaps, tagged Autumn, Autumn Swap, buddies, Felt, Felting, Mehmet Girgic, rug, swap, Wollknoll, wool on September 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
As promised I have uploaded some images of my rug in progress at the workshop I attended with Mehmet Girgic at Wollknoll in Germany. Please click here to access my Flickr photostream and see how the rug was made. We started with a base of ‘kicked’ wool and cotton fabric and built up our outlines using thin strands of wool. [...]
Home from fabulous felting course!
Posted in Felt, Swaps, tagged Autumn Swap, Felt, Felting, Germany, Mehmet Girgic, rug, swap, traditional, Turkish, Wollknoll, workshop on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi everyone, I have finally returned from a week in Crete followed by the most fantastic rug making workshop with Mehmet Girgic at Wollknoll in Germany!! What can I say? Mehmet is a master Turkish feltmaker and every minute spent participating in his workshop was an amazing experience. Twelve of us gathered from as far afield as Spain, [...]
Felting techniques and swap update
Posted in Felt, Swaps, tagged Anita Larkin, Australia, Autumn, ball, bamboo, blind, buddies, buy handmade, Christmas, deadline, dry felting, essential textile art, Etsy, Felt, Felting, felting course, fibre, merino, olive oil soap, presents, sewing, supplies, swap, SwapDex, theme, Wollknoll on September 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is amazing how many ways there are to felt a ball. Today I needed to make a couple of felt balls and although they are always trotted out as a beginners project for me they are far from it! I always seem to have difficulty starting them off without getting creases but no more, Australian [...]
Felt making at the Irish Green Gathering
Posted in Felt, tagged Carmen, classes, Felt, Felting, felting classes, fibre, Grennan Craft Mill, Irish Green Gathering, Joan Casey, Mary Scott, merino, Nicola Henley, silk, Studio, Wollknoll, wool, workshops on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A big thank you to Joan Casey, Mary Scott and Nicola Henley, the inspiring felt makers who helped make last weekends Irish Green Gathering such a big success. We had a great long weekend and for once the weather Gods seemed to smile on us for most of the time. Joan demonstrated felt making in the walled garden [...]
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