Happy New Year! Happy New You! Happy New Hobby?

Happy New Year! Happy New You! Happy New Hobby? Why not give wet felting a go? Here is a free tutorial click here or why not spend a fabulous day at a wet felting workshop in Carmarthenshire? click here or go to my website www.calonwlanfelt.co.uk

Here is a very interesting article about how therapeutic creating with your hands is.....click here

Season's Greetings

Hope you have a fun and felty time over the festive season........

I am looking forward to lots more feltiness next year! My next workshop is on Sat Jan 9th see my website (click here) for details.....

Christmas Art Show in Greenspace Gallery, Carmarthen, textiles, paintings...

Here are some crazy hats I have for sale at the moment in Greenspace Gallery, 30 King Street, Carmarthen (over the craft shop, next to the library). They are part of the Christmas show alongside paintings, textiles and sculpture, until the end of the year.
Every Saturday in December there will be mulled wine, mince pies and music by Fanny Cattran.

Greenspace supports local artists. 

Showcases the work of Dorothy Morris

Helps supports some of the poorest artists and craftspeople in Malawi  ( 'Africa Exhibition next spring)

Supports the work of Hopemalawi.UK ( by sponsoring children in secondary education)

Showcases recent Graduates ( Graduates 2015)

Supports social and ethical issues through art-

Wishes for Our Little World in aid of End Ecocide in Europe

Its My World Too by Ysgol Glan Y Fferi in aid of Greenpeace

Wildlife Art Exhibition in aid of The Wild Life Trust ( with talk by Sarah Kessel )

Provides local home made, and ethically sourced foods

Provides space once a month for a Cygnus community Cafe for people to talk about deeper, spiritual, health and wellbeing issues.

Provides art and batik lessons  in warm comfortable surroundings with small classes- next classes Start in January.

Provides a space where people can sit, stare, sip tea, eat cake , read books and take time out from their busy lives.

Fibres.......

I love close-ups of natural structures especially wool fibres.........

some commercial yarn entwined......

Colours are so important for our sanity at this time of year, November, when the days are shortening fast and you sometimes don't see the sun for days..................

Free workshop draw winner

Congratulations to Cynthia of Haverfordwest who has won a place on one of my felting workshops, I look forward to felting with you, Cynthia!


Some images from recent workshops: making hats and bags at the National Botanic Garden of Wales

and nuno felt shawls at Carmel Community hall:

plus the wall-hanging in the style of a persian rug workshop:

a very, very talented workshop attendee in action.........

I just love middle eastern textiles, so had to do a workshop on making a rug-style wall-hanging.

thanks everyone for all your wonderful creativity........

Landscape course

A fabulous time was had last Saturday indulging in one of my favorite subjects: Landscape! Participants from Cardigan to the South Wales valleys spent the day learning how to transform wool fibres into a landscape at Carmel community hall near Crosshands, Carmarthenshire. It was a happy mixture of beginners and some with experience.

Mountains, rivers, meadows, fields, rocks!

This one gained a tree by the end:

In progress

and this one is more abstract.......see below

finished

in progress

in progress

Using prefelts and surface textural elements..............

WonderWool Wales 2016

I'm very excited to announce that I have been asked to teach a workshop at Wonderwool Wales  April 23-24 2016. More details here at the Wonderwool Wales website.

This year was the first time I had a stand at the show and had a fabulous time in wool heaven with thousands of other wool addicts! So next year I will have a stand again but will also be running two workshops (each 2 hrs long), can't wait!

Skies.......

Here are some fabulous skies I've seen recently, every day we get to see an amazing art show above our heads for free!