Craft Master is back!

Call out from Big Mountain Productions:

RTÉ's hugely successful television series Craft Master is back! 

Produced by Big Mountain Productions in collaboration with the Crafts Council of Ireland, and presented by Sonya Lennon, Craft Master is looking for the best amateur Irish crafters.

Do you have foundation skills in

Basketry, Millinery, Knitting, Furniture or Jewellery

and want to bring it to the next level?

Aspiring apprentices will get the chance of a lifetime, with a week-long residential masterclass with a top maker in their discipline.

An amateur maker will be crowned the nation's Craft Master, and win a coveted stand at Showcase - Ireland’s Creative Expo, run by the Crafts Council of Ireland.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: WEDNESDAY 6TH JUNE 2012

To apply online:

www.rte.ie/tv/audienceparticipation

(Please note eligibility criteria apply, see form for further details).

For an application form and details please contact Brid or Michelle:

Telephone:  (048) 3083 4048

Email: craftmaster@bigmountainproductions.com

‘KNIT YOUR WAY OUT OF THE RECESSION COMPETITION"

The Business Show on RTE has an amazing competition running. They hosted an hour long yarn special on their show last Sunday (more details here, or listen to the show here)

The Prize:

• €100 voucher for ‘This is Knit’ shop in the Powerscourt Shopping Centre in Dublin, including 3 knitting classes. 
• A group pass to The Knitting & Stitching Show at the RDS in Dublin later this year. 
• And finally top Irish designer Lainey Keogh has a superb cashmere stole for you.

Runners up prizes of group passes to the RDS Show.

To Enter:

To win - knit something to help us get out of the recession- Funny, imaginative, creative, knitted, crocheted or embroidered items

Deadline:

There is only 3 weeks to enter. Don’t send your entries into RTE, just take a photograph of your work of art and email the image to thebusiness@rte.ie by Friday 7 May. 


(A little hint, already mentioned on the show is lifebuoy, mittens, scarves, slippers. There was a mention of voodoo banker dolls, but no one had actually made one. Particularily like that idea)

Baa Baa Business presents The Mad Knitters Tea Party, RTE Radio

The Business, a Radio Show on RTE, hosted a gathering of different yarn related people and businesses in a special on how the economic crash has created a knitting boom. 

The programme was aired on 17 April 2010, and if you missed it you can hear a repeat of it here. http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebusiness/ and also more details on the interviewee's.

Great interviews with

Lisa & Jacqui Sisk from  www.thisisknit.ie  

Cathy Giles from www.craftyalley.com

Joe Queenan from www.foxfordwoollenmills

Janette Invers knitwear for personalised golf-club members

Rosemary Murphy from www.theconstantknitter.ie

Pat & Nora Casey from O Cathasaigh Alpaca  www.ocathasaighalpacastud.inandaround.ie, 

George Graham, Irish champion sheep-shearer.  www.sheepshearing.ie.

Freda Hayes of www.blarney.com

Warren & Jennifer Ogden from www.craftspun.ie

Marie O’Toole www.ica.ie

Vincent Pierce, who is setting up a wool processing operation In Belorussia. His company has been working in working with fleece for years. Classifying the fleece for knitting, carpets and house insulation www.sheepwoolinsulation.ie    

www.wool.ie

Breda McGuigan from www.hand-knit-baby-gift.com

Edel McBride www.edelmacbride.com

  

A fantastic gathering of people, who all spoke very well, about the blossoming in textiles in Ireland at the moment. It was great to hear so much spoken about the home market, the Irish interest, and not just the tourist trade. Well worth a listen. http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thebusiness/

Competition

‘KNIT YOUR WAY OUT OF THE RECESSION COMPETITION"

They also launched a competition with an amazing prize, which is being posted separately, so it gets the full attention it deserves! Read about it here