Three fabulous days with Catherine O'Leary

I think this lovely photo of Deirdre sums up everyone's opinion of our time with Catherine!

Catherine brought with her a great selection of samples giving us all so much information and ideas we could not wait to get started!

Dorothy making her nuno prefelt, which later on would be cut up and added to her garment.

After the hard decision had been made as to what to make, we set about cutting the needle felt.

                       Lots of discussions and thought went into the planning of our pieces.

Throughout the three days Catherine gave us lots of advice and tips on how to learn this new technique and also how to improve our felting skills! Catherine is a great tutor and so generous with her knowledge.

                                 One of Catherine's examples of stain glass felting.

                                                      The other side.

So many very different designs made the workshop a tremendous learning curve as we got ideas from each other as well, as Catherine!

The view from the hall was inspiring!

Denise getting her garment fitted at the end of the day!

The group photo, members of Feltmakers North tired but happy with their achievements I hope to include more individual photos on my next post, as the standard of the work was fabulous. So to all the girls that attended please bring your garments to next felt in, so I can get good photos of them.

Next month Cherri Conlon will be taking the felt in and we will be needle felting Christmas decorations, so remember your needles. the sales table will have polystyrene shapes to buy, just bring your usual felting kit and some wool tops and of course needle felting needles! After the morning session you can stay on for free felting to members and a there is a small fee for non members, remember your lunch! Check out the felt in/workshop section for all the details of up and coming events!