video link, felt, basket making and pottery

I was sent this link by my friend Olive, it shows some cottage industries in Ireland. A felt maker, potter, millinar and basket maker. I would love to have their life styles. I hope the link works outside of Ireland because it is from RTE and I know when I want to watch links from the UK stations they are blocked. Anyway hope it works!

junkouture

This is an outfit made from recycled material for The Junkoture competition in Ireland. I cant show the full dress as I dont want to sow the students face.

Finishing a felt wall hanging Liinalommi

Fun with Felt

These are some of the test pieces my students made this week. This project is working very well even one of the boys who hates art made a piece.

Here are a few links:

Rosiepink

Teaching Handwork
Weavespindye
sarahstexturecraft


There are many more felting blogs, forums and vidieos on the web/

Great Blog

http://art-paper-scissors.blogspot.com/and http://herdabbles.blogspot.com/ these teachers have some brilliant ideas and a lovely blog.

Christmas 2011

I Made this for myself, and now I am making some with my students, I will upload the photos later. The materials I used for this one were too expensive for class so I photocopied sheet music back to bak and got the students to make thiers from that. They are turning out lovely.

Doodle for Google

We are doing this with our 1st Years this year. We did it last year and it was a hit with the students, its great because it comes complete with lesson plans. http://www.google.com/doodle4google/.