‘Graduating’ with certificate on the Rug Making course
Felted Rug made on the Wonderwool Wales 2 day felting workshop
I can’t believe the last post was in January. Smokey Joe or Mr Slinky as we have nicknamed him is fully recovered and into everything. We have come to the conclusion that he doesn’t feel pain as he has never shown any signs of it on either of his misadventures and is constantly climbing onto roofs etc and falling off, but just gives himself a shake and checks no one is watching and laughing at him.
Wonderwool Wales was a great success with over 20% more visitors this year. We are now officially supporting The Campaign for Wool whose Patron is the Prince of Wales, and John Thorley came on the Saturday to give a talk on the Campaign with a question and answer session afterwards which went down very well. The tutors from Finland stayed on for Monday and Tuesday to give two 2 day felting classes in rug making and scarves which everyone enjoyed – the pictures from the classes can be seen on the Wonderwool web site www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk.
My felted rug is now finished (see photo), it is the first one I have done and was based on the mongolian slate tiles outside the kitchen. It was hard work and very heavy when wet but I am pleased with it and would even be mad enough to make another.
Our Felt group made bowls last month based on the method used in the felting woolschools at Wonderwool. Mine ended up looking like a flower so I have needlefelted and embroidered it along those lines, it will be interesting to see the rest of them at the next meeting this Sunday.
My garden is at last getting sorted out having found someone local to come and do the heavy clearing work. We hope to get the membrane down next week and start putting the slate stone down on top to plant through, which hopefully will help keep the weeds at bay and make it a lot easier to maintain. I have a small stash of plants waiting to go in having been unable to resist a trip to the nursery when Andy’s aunt Enid stayed with us a couple of weeks ago.
