Body and Soul Festival, Co. Westmeath

We're making our annual pilgrimage to Ballinlough for the fabulous Body and Soul Festival! So, there will be no updates for the next week, while we're soaking in some wet, muddy festivities

Again this year, Greencrafts will be present; a lovely craft village, with demonstrations and workshops in textiles, wood, metal, clay.

Felty, Beady Jewellery - Combined Wire, Fibre and Bead Workshop, Co. Mayo

 

Felty, Beady Jewellery - Combined Wire, Fibre and Bead Workshop. 

 Thursday 25th July

This is an intense and exciting workshop that covers the following techniques; making fabulous coiled wire beads using a wire coiling gizmo, the art of stitching seed beads and coiled wire onto the felt beads and basic jewellery making techniques. Basic sewing skills are necessary for this workshop. There will also be a demonstration of making felted beads using a felting needle.  €75.00

Suzie Sullivan

Award winning fibre artist

Derryaun Crafts

+353 (0) 98 21888

suzie@derryauncrafts.com

www.derryauncrafts.com

Trampoline Market, Dublin

An Arts & Crafts market (Trampoline Market) will take place in Ranelagh (Dublin) the weekend of the 6th & 7th of July

We will have 12 tables for designers to sell their handmade creations. We are at the moment on the process of recruiting artists to make sure we cover all disciplines.

If you would be interested in taking part of this enjoyable adventure, email us a few pictures and a description of your art practice or invite your friends to do so at trampolinemarket@gmail.com .

Tables are 40 euro for one day and 70 euro for the weekend

www.facebook.com/trampolinemarket

Yarnbombing the G8

My favourite yarnbombers are at it again!! 

S.O.C.K are planning on yarnbombing the G8 summit, which is taking part in Northern Ireland this very week. Take a look at these fab photos on The Guardian website

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/jun/14/g8-yarnbombers-in-pictures#/?picture=410792808&index=0

Sewing Weekend, Dublin

For more information contact  

 Maria Tapper 

087 7690873

mariakarintapper@gmail.com

Childrens Summer Sewing Camp at The Constant Knitter, Dublin

For more information visit:

The Constant Knitter, 

88 Francis Street, 

Dublin 8

Contact Rosemary Murphy

T: 087 996 719

W: www.theconstantknitter.ie

B: www.theconstantknitter.ie/blog/

Yarnbombing at Bloom! Dublin

Best of luck today to the yarnbombers who'll be knitting and crocheting today in Bloom in the Park!

Irelands largest Garden festival will have a community garden design entitled “All Part of the Pattern”. It is intended to reflect “the ideals and focus of community gardening in Ireland – social inclusion, improved nutrition, building community, sharing skills and knowledge. Community gardens knit together individuals to form communities; combating isolation, food poverty and waste. We are all – however different – part of the pattern of our community.”

"A central concept in the garden is community, and we plan to represent this by YARNBOMBING the tree and tools in the garden. Yarnbombing is a relatively new form of street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn instead of paint or chalk.  We're going to use a patchwork of knitted pieces to represent how our community gardens knit our communities together."
 
http://communitygardennetwork.ning.com/