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| He thought I was crazy when I realized we were on Raglan Road ON AN AUTUMN'S DAY!! |
Whew! Another school holiday down, and just in time, too! I have a lot of work to get done and that means Small Boy needs to be in school and out of the way. We went up to Dublin for the LOVELY Knit and Stitch Show http://www.twistedthread.com/ in the RDS and it was wonderful and all too short! We both too a workshop: mine in resist felting with Feltmakers Ireland and Fionn with Colourcrafts and spritzing Brusho on Lutradur and mucking with all their lovely products www.colourcraftltd.com/. We ran around like headless chickens buying fabric and beads and new scissors and dyes. I then went over to the community stand Knit One Pass it On and taught crochet for the afternoon. There weren't a lot of takers on instruction (the stalls were jammed with people buying), but I helped a few and learned a new stitch myself! The RTE1 show Nationwide was there filming all day and the exhibitions were stunning.
It passed all too soon and so next year I must try and get there for two days. I must cultivate Dublin friends who have couches/spare rooms as all these cultural events are in Dublin these days. Feltmakers Ireland is doing a workshop in late January that I would like to go up for, but the price for all these activities goes up considerably when you have to pay for a hotel. Feel free to leave a comment if you are in a position to offer because I make a mean breakfast!!
It's great to have conversations with people who make things and possibly sell them and get updates on new products, shortcuts, creative ideas. Creating things is a rather solitary process, so the public events shoo us out of our rabbit holes, where we have been muttering and creating for far too long. We laugh and appreciate each other's work, and eat and try not to spend several weeks worth of wages on things we NEED and WANT badly. For me, its great to get encouragement and advice as I am beginning my selling phase and so many people are there actually making a living at it--it's the light at the end of the tunnel!!
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| Hilary Bell, Voids 3, Machine Embroidery & Silk. This was part of the Filament exhibition. |
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| Sheila Jordan's wonderful piece entitled "Dance of the Spirits" in wool/cotton/silk for Filament. |
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| Arlene Shawcross' delicate "Fragility" for the Craft Council of Ireland's exhibition. |
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| Feltmakers Ireland had a wonderful (if not warm) display booth upstairs on the mezzanine |
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| Volunteers for Knit One Pass it On teaching crochet. There were more takers for crochet than knitting. Hooray!!! |
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