We are delighted to announce a Nuno Felt workshop on March 27th  & 28th 2010 with Elizabeth Bonnar in Lucan, Co. Dublin. Elizabeth is the founder of Feltmakers Ireland and makes the most beautiful delicate nuno felt using a huge range of textiles – from humble cotton skrim to fine silks.  The workshop will be [...]

Last Saturday we held our annual “Basic & Beyond” workshop in Lucan with a packed attendance list and a busy schedule for the day. To keep energy levels up there was lots of home baked goodies and a display of felt work to keep the inspirational juices flowing. The feedback from participants was extremely positive [...]

One of or members, Kate Lennon,  sent in this video from the Netherlands showing how to darn by needle felting. You should check out their site and have a look at some of their other needle felting projects. www.woolfiller.com

There is a lot of felt activity going on about the place at the moment. Yesterday (18th) there was a large group of enthuastic feltmakes attend the Drop In session in the Fabric Gallery in Bray. The three hours just flew by and everyone made finger puppets- which was just a scaled down way to [...]

We hope you are all well and making lots of beautiful felt. I must say I was very impressed by one of our members, Nicola Brown (you should check out her terrific blog – clasheen) , who lives in Carlow and when faced with water cuts she had to melt snow to be able to [...]

Cochet Coral by Sue Bamford. Photograph – Chris Knowles The Science Gallery in Dublin is holding an exhibition of crochet which is all made to a specific mathamatical principal – the hyperbolic plane.  It is a fascinating idea and exhibitions have held in locations in the US, Australia and London. There has been a lot [...]

Happy New Year! Just looking out at the frost and snow makes me think of all things warm and wooly. If your New Years resolution is to dig out your stash of fibre and get down to making some beautiful felt we have a few dates for your diary – Monday 18th January we are [...]