We had a WONDERFUL time having fun and learning new skills from great buddy Dawn Edwards during her ‘Fantastic Felt Hats’ workshops at the weekend!!! All the participants started each day oohing and aahing over the gorgeous hats on display, trying them on and discussing with Dawn whether to work from one of her templates of branch out and design one of their own.
Friday is going to be hectic, since Dawn’s arrival I have also been running around and frantically preparing a lot of felt which needs to be delivered to Duckett’s Grove tomorrow (I had the wrong deadline) and amazingly I was in the right place at the right time and have secured a new studio place there as well! There are 4 artist’s studios in the renovated courtyard and one of the artists had to back out at the last minute, enter me!!!
We’ll be measuring it up tomorrow when we deliver the felt to the new retail unit there and then planning what to set up for the official opening with a government minister on Friday morning, Dawn’s been invited to display her hats too so it sounds as if it will be an action packed and fun day!After a lot of technical issues ‘Nuno Felting with Chrissie Day and Nicola Brown’ is now available to order as an ebook for iPhone, iPod and iPad touch. Currently Blurb don’t offer it for other forms of digital readers but hope to do so before too long has elapsed. I did have to make it available in a wrap around hard back too in order to get it online but I’ve priced highly just to ensure nobody orders it by mistake, of course if you do happen to want a hard back copy that’s another thing entirely!
What a whirlwind! It sounds as if you are riding on the crest of a wave! Please post pics of your new studio. We would all love to see it.
Elizabeth
Wonderful post on such a great workshop. So great to see it all happening in Borris and to meet the delightful Dawn too.
Wonderful to meet you, too, Cathy;-)
Thanks again so much for inviting me over Nicola. This has been such an amazing experience for me…having met so many wonderful feltmakers, artists, friends…both new and old…seeing lovely areas of Ireland, and of course, spending time with you. I will never forget these two weeks…And, of course, I have a million pictures to remind me, too;-)
So glad that you’re coming to Michigan to teach and to see me soon as I’ll be having withdrawal symptoms;-)
Thanks a million Nicola.
Love,
Dawn