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Reminder: Membership Renewal Time

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It’s now THAT time of year – time to renew your Feltmakers Ireland membership. Our membership is valid for a calendar year, from January to December.

Good News:

If you joined Feltmakers Ireland through the Dublin Fibre Festival in October (or later), your membership will automatically roll over and remain valid through 2026.

Why Renew? Member Benefits Include:

Monthly Sunday Sessions

Take part in our popular Sunday Sessions, featuring hands-on felting, Textile Journeys, and more opportunities to learn and connect. We now have monthly meetings in County Galway too!

Exhibitions and Shows

Members are eligible to participate in our annual exhibition and additional group shows. In 2026, we will be exhibiting at:

  • Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (April)
  • European Wool Day, Tralee (May)
  • A group exhibition at The Leitrim Design House later in the year

Public Demonstrations of Feltmaking

Eligible members can demonstrate feltmaking to the public. In 2025, we shared the magic of feltmaking at:

  • Bloom
  • Two August Craft Month Open Days
  • Tullamore Show
  • Dublin Fibre Festival
  • Fibreshed Ireland’s Textile Market

Workshops & Learning Opportunities

Members can register for Feltmakers Ireland workshops. In 2025, these included:

  • Two multi-day workshops with international tutors
  • Our annual Fine Felt Workshop
  • Our Basic & Beyond course

Promotion & Visibility

  • Have your felting classes listed on our Resources Page
  • Share your exhibitions, courses, and other news on our blog and social media*
  • Be part of our Guild’s raising the profile of Feltmaking

Community

Most importantly, membership means being part of the warm, supportive, and inspiring Feltmakers Ireland community.

*We aim to be inclusive and share all members’ news. However, due to time constraints, we may be unable to share all events. We are an all-volunteer organisation. Please send your news to feltmakersIE@gmail.com

Ready to Renew (or Join)?

To renew your membership (or join) Feltmakers Ireland, please visit our Membership Page –https://feltmakersireland.com/membership-application/

We look forward to another creative year!

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FYI: Membership Renewal Time

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It’s THAT time of year – time to renew your Feltmakers Ireland membership. Your membership is valid for a calendar year – from January to December of each year.

Membership perks include the following:

  • Attending our monthly Sunday Sessions.
  • Being eligible to participate in our yearly exhibition.
  • Having your classes listed on our Resources Page.
  • Having your exhibitions, courses, and other news* shared on our blog and social media.
  • Being part of the welcoming Feltmakers Ireland community!

*We aim to be inclusive and share all members’ news. However, due to time constraints, we may be unable to share all events. We are an all-volunteer organisation. Please send your news to feltmakersIE@gmail.com

To renew your membership (or join) Feltmakers Ireland, please visit our Membership Page –https://feltmakersireland.com/membership-application/

News: Ramona Farrelly enjoys Pam de Groot’s Course

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Written by Guild member Ramona Farrelly

To my great surprise and joy, I received a call a while back, to be told I had won a bursary voucher from Feltmakers Ireland to put towards any course I’d like to do in felting. (Editor’s note: Ramona won the Membership Renewal Draw, which took place at our AGM in May).

I chose Pam de Groot’s surface treatment course, ‘Surface, Form and Space’. This online course is great for learning various techniques for adding parts and creating form and texture in felt.

The course consists of 7 modules/weeks with activities from undulations, lumps and bumps, buttons and claws, as well as pimples, warts, connections and brains, all of which can be used to create new and interesting forms in your felt. I very much enjoyed the first two modules, particularly as I created four little characters that my daughter and her partner fell in love with and claimed as their own. (See image below).

One of the pieces created by Ramona Farrelly in Pam de Groot’s ‘Surface, Form and Space’ online course.

Pam is ever present with helpful and encouraging comments.  Her instructions are clear and concise. The beauty of the online course is that the parts can always be revisited if you’re unsure. 

Students ask questions and receive feedback from the tutor for the duration of the course. During the last two weeks, the students create a felted project combining the learned techniques.

The Ruzuku platform also allows student interaction via posting images and commenting. This is very useful to everyone on the course. Reading each other’s comments and gaining more knowledge this way adds to the tutor’s teaching. (More information about Pam’s classes can be found on her website).

A piece Ramona created around a hard object – a ceramic vessel that she made.

On the Feltmakers Ireland website, there is a Meet the Maker profile on Ramona and an article about her piece for Sculpture in Context 2022.

Additionally, check out Ramona Farrelly‘s amazing photographs, which can be seen on her website – https://ramonaf.exposure.co/

Reminder: AGM this Sunday

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All members of the Feltmakers Ireland Guild are invited to our AGM.

  • VENUE: CIE Sports and Leisure Hall, INCHICORE Dublin 8. Eircode D08X525
  • DATE: 7th of May, 2023
  • TIME: 10:30-12:30

This AGM is the beginning of the year of our 20th anniversary.
By starting promptly at 10.30 AM, we hope to have the formalities of the meeting completed in good time, so we can listen to our Guest Speaker, our founder Elizabeth Bonnar, give a short account of ‘Our Guild’s Beginnings’ and glimpse some of her fantastic work.

We hope to have an unofficial launch of our book Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking. There will be a few copies available for purchase.

Members who cannot attend in person can use the Zoom link that will be emailed out on Friday or Saturday. The session will not be recorded.

YUMS
Refreshments will follow – please bring some Home Bakes for us to sample. We always appreciate goodies with our cuppa.

SHARE ONE PIECE
You are welcome to bring one piece of your own work from the last 20 years – new members, too, please – to display around the room.

(Please label your piece clearly and securely, and please, please, please bring the piece home with you).

AGENDA

  1. Address by Chair, the opening of AGM (Breda).
  2. Address by Secretary (Clare).
  3. Treasurer’s Report (Annika).
  4. Report of Wool Project Book (Copies may be available).
  5. Election of Chairperson and Committee for 2023-34. The election of officers will be held at the 11th of June meeting.
  6. Motions.
  7. GUEST SPEAKER – Elizabeth Bonnar, the founder of Feltmakers Ireland, will address the meeting on the History of FI and may display some of her work.
  8. Bursary Draw for €250 for all paid-up members will occur at the AGM. The award is to be used to attend a Felting Workshop (either in-person or online). Afterwards, a blog post reporting on the workshop/class would be most welcome.
  9. Tea/Coffee Home Bakes.

NB: Motions for the AGM MUST be submitted in writing, to the Committee, 14 days before the AGM. This is to allow time to circulate all members in advance of the meeting.

See you there!

News: AGM This Sunday

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ALL MEMBERS OF THE FELTMAKERS IRELAND GUILD ARE INVITED TO OUR AGM.

VENUE: CIE Sports and Leisure Hall, INCHICORE Dublin 8. Eircode D08X525

DATE: 7th of May, 2023

TIME: 10:30-12:30

THIS AGM IS THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR OF OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY.

By starting promptly at 10.30 AM, we hope to have the formalities of the meeting completed in good time, so we can listen to our Guest Speaker, our founder Elizabeth Bonnar, give a short account of ‘Our Guild’s Beginnings’ and glimpse some of her fantastic work.

We hope to have an unofficial launch at the culmination of our brilliant research project, our wool book – Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking.

YUMS

Refreshments will follow – please bring some Home Bakes for us to sample. We always appreciate goodies with our cuppa.

SHARE ONE PIECE

You are welcome to bring one piece of your own work from the last 20 years – new members, too, please – to display around the room.

(Please label your piece clearly and securely, and please, please, please bring the piece home with you).

BURSARY AWARD

While we are delighted to announce that all members are eligible for the drawing of an award of €250 to put towards any workshop either in person or online, from any international tutor of your choice.

AGENDA
  1. Address by Chair, opening of AGM (Breda).
  2. Address by Secretary (Clare).
  3. Treasurer’s Report (Annika).
  4. Report of Wool Project Book (Copies may be available).
  5. Election of Chairperson and Committee for 2023-34. The election of officers will be held at the 11th of June meeting.
  6. Motions.
  7. GUEST SPEAKER – Elizabeth Bonnar, the founder of Feltmakers Ireland, will address the meeting on the History of FI and may display some of her work.
  8. Bursary Draw for €250 for all paid-up members will occur at the AGM. The award is to be used to attend a Felting Workshop (either in-person or online). Afterwards, a blog post reporting on the workshop/class would be most welcome.
  9. Tea/Coffee Home Bakes.

NB: Motions for the AGM MUST be submitted in writing, to the Committee, 14 days before the AGM. This is to allow time to circulate all members in advance of the meeting.

News: Annual General Meeting 2023

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All members of the Feltmakers Ireland Guild are invited to our AGM.

VENUE: CIE Sports and Leisure Hall, INCHICORE Dublin 8. Eircode D08X525

DATE: 7th of May, 2023

TIME: 10:30-12:30

This AGM is the beginning of the year of our 20th Anniversary.

By starting promptly at 10.30 AM, we hope to have the formalities of the meeting completed in good time, so we can listen to our Guest Speaker, our founder Elizabeth Bonnar, give a short account of ‘Our Guild’s Beginnings’ and glimpse some of her fantastic work.

We hope to have an unofficial launch at the culmination of our brilliant research project, our wool book – Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking.

Yums

Refreshments will follow – please bring some Home Bakes for us to sample. We always appreciate goodies with our cuppa.

Share One Piece

You are welcome to bring one piece of your own work from the last 20 years – new members, too, please – to display around the room.

(Please label your piece clearly and securely, and please, please, please bring the piece home with you).

Bursary Award

While we are delighted to announce that we will be giving one lucky member a whopping €250 to put towards any workshop either in person or online, from any international tutor of your choice.

Anyone whose 2023 membership is paid up before May 1st will be eligible for the draw at the AGM on May 7th.

If you still need to renew your membership, please contact Fiona –  allmembers.feltmakersireland@gmail.com

Agenda
  1. Address by Chair, opening of AGM (Breda).
  2. Address by Secretary (Clare).
  3. Treasurer’s Report (Annika).
  4. Report of Wool Project Book (Copies may be available).
  5. Election of Chairperson and Committee for 2023-34. The election of officers will be held at the 11th of June meeting.
  6. GUEST SPEAKER – Elizabeth Bonnar, the founder of Feltmakers Ireland, will address the meeting on the History of FI and may display some of her work.
  7. Bursary Draw for €250 for all paid-up members will occur at the AGM. The award is to be used to attend a Felting Workshop (either in-person or online). Afterwards, a blog post reporting on the workshop/class would be most welcome.
  8. Tea/Coffee Home Bakes.

NB: Motions for the AGM MUST be submitted in writing, to the Committee, 14 days before the AGM. This is to allow time to circulate all members in advance of the meeting.

Reminder: Membership Renewal – with Bursary

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Bursary Award 

While we are delighted to announce that we will be giving one lucky member a whopping €250 to put towards any workshop either in person or online, from any international tutor of your choice, it is also a membership renewal reminder. 

Anyone whose 2023 membership is paid up before May 1st will be eligible for the draw at the AGM on May 7th (more details about the AGM will be sent out soon) 

Contact me, Fiona, your friendly membership secretary!

Email: allmembers.feltmakersireland@gmail.com

Thank you to all those who’ve signed up already, and good luck to everyone. 

Fiona and the committee

{Work featured in the image are from left to right: tutor Nancy Ballesteros, Feltmakers Ireland member Doris Reinisch, who previously won a bursary and attended a Molly Williams course, and tutor Fiona Duthie. }