It’s really unusual to have snow this early in the year on the ridge opposite the front of my farmhouse. Sometimes, the larger peak Mount Leinster does have a dusting in mid November but normally we only have it on the whole range in the thick of winter (if at all) so I was delighted to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wool’
The first snow of 2009 and a brilliant felt vessel!
Posted in Felt, Swaps, workshops, tagged batts, Clasheen, Felt, felt vessel, felt workshop, felt workshops, Felting, felting workshops, fiber, fibre, Icelandic, Icelandic batts, Icelandic wool, mulberry silk, resist, silk, surface decoration, texture, vessel, wet felt, wet felting, wool on November 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Combining raw fleece with Icelandic wool and last call for winter workshops
Posted in Etsy, Felt, workshops, tagged batts, Clasheen, Etsy, Felt, felt rug, Felting, felting a rug, Fleece, Icelandic, Icelandic wool, Jacobs, Jacobs fleece, raw fleece, wet felt, wet felting, wool, wool batts, workshop, workshops on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As promised yesterday I am going to post about the rug I made on Sunday from raw fleece and Icelandic wool but before I kick things off just a quick reminder. There is now only one adult and child place left in either the morning or the afternoon workshop here at Clasheen on Saturday 5th [...]
Unblocked felt hat, an experiment with colour, style and texture
Posted in Etsy, Felt, tagged design, Fabric, Felt, felt hat, Felting, hat, hat block, Icelandic wool, Irene Lundgaard, Pick up your needles, resist, silk, silk and cotton fabric, silk twists, wet felt, wet felting, wool on November 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I loved the two felt hats that I made recently with Icelandic wool but I really wanted to wear them myself and unfortunately my head is just too small for hats shaped on my hat block! At the brilliant ’Pick up your Needles’ workshop on Saturday Irene had a simple but fun crochet hat that I thought could translate very [...]
Silk laps again and still tidying!
Posted in Felt, Swaps, workshops, tagged Clasheen, Felt, Felting, ICA, silk, silk laps, wet felt, wet felting, wool, workshop on November 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In response to some of your comments re. the silk laps I also find that they can ‘catch’ your skin as you are laying them out but definitely not as much as silk hankies do. What I like to do if my hands are dry is to rub them in olive oil about ten [...]
Busy, busy, busy
Posted in Felt, workshops, tagged Felt, Felting, felting workshops, Icelandic wool, vessel, Woodland, wool, workshops on November 4, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I have had a very busy day today rushing around the place and packaging orders but at last I have some time to rush off a quick post. Tomorrow is going to be another tidying up and destashing day in preparation for my first Winter workshops this Saturday. To remind you here is what is on [...]
Large felt vessel and first batch of Icelandic wool on line
Posted in Felt, tagged Anna Gunnarsdottir, Etsy, Felt, Felting, fibre, fibres, vessel, wet felt, wool on November 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I have spent a LOT of today making a large felt vessel using some of my new Icelandic wool and thankfully the weather improved enough in the afternoon for photographing so I am at last starting to put it up for sale on Etsy. In order to have less shrinkage than normal I used Anna Gunnersdottir’s method [...]
First destash items up for sale!
Posted in Felt, tagged destash, felt scarf, Icelandic wool, merino, silk, sliver, wool on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With the studio to tidy, wool to unpack, kits to prepare and other sundry orginisational chores to get through today it was a toss up this morning to know exactly which task to get stuck into first. As soon as I started unpacking the wool it became immediately obvious that I couldn’t progress any further without tackling [...]
Ready to prepare the felting kits at last!
Posted in Felt, tagged Felt, felt scarf, Felting, felting kit, felting kits, merino, mulberry, mulberry silk, ponge, ponge silk, silk, Studio, texture, wet felt, wet felted scarf, wet felting, wool on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was supposed to be going to a finance workshop (associated with the tourism course) tomorrow but as my fever is definitely back with a vengeance I have decided to stay at home. Initially I was thinking of laying out and starting a larger garment flu permitting, but since the postman has just arrived with my [...]
Wool and silk on order, felting kit update!
Posted in Felt, nuno felt, tagged Blue Fish, Blue Fish Clothing, Cobweb Felt, cobweb felt scarf, Felt, felt scarf, Felting, fibre, Urban Fauna, Urban Fauna Studio, wool on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Following on from my last post, the Icelandic wool that I have ordered is on its way and I am also now waiting for some silk chiffon and ponge silk to get here in preparation for a nuno felting marathon in the run up to December (note how I managed to avoid using the C word!). I am [...]
Exciting news re. felting wool, Clasheen Autumn Swap and last chance to view Sculpture in Context
Posted in Felt, Swaps, nuno felt, tagged Felt, Felting, Nuno, merino, wool, embellishing, nuno felt, wet felting, fibre, sculptural felt, embellishment, swap, exhibition, clasheen Crafty Swaps, Filzrausch, felt vessel, Sculpture in Context, felt bag, Icelandic wool, Clasheen Autumn Swap, felting kit, findings, felt purse, felt necklace, felt brooch, Dublin, Iceland, Icelandic on October 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There never seem to be enough hours in a day to fit in all the things that I really want to do. Luckily my flu is now 90% over so I am starting to plough through all the paperwork and outstanding letters/emails etc. that built up over the 4 weeks while I was away from home. My [...]
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