So - the Arts Festival and long weekend as been over now for days already, and it is time to look ahead what the autumn brings for us.
Ruth had had fun gathering nature's gifts for .Nature Weaving" activity tomorrow in Cuiken Primary (no townhall session therefore tomorrow, everyone, please take note!)
and, with a bit of luck and with Vicen's help, you guys might make something like this tomorrow in Cuiken Primary:
The best way to view and to re-member them is via our Facebook photoalbum which you can see even if you are not signed up for Facebook by going to this page here:
just click on line above and then you will see something like this:
By then clicking on the individual picture - this picture opens up larger and also reveal a line or two about the story connected with the picture
and, like in the case with the picture above, it might even have a wee conversation on it, and give witness to what we might be up to in the autumn now next!
Hope you enjoy browsing and letting us know what you think?
You can reach us here, or via Facebook or via popping in to see us today in the library, drop in firbecraft between 3 and 5pm, or in town hall on Saturday, with Pictish Stone painting at the craft fair there. We love to see you and hear what you recommend and are enthused by.
What has been so far the most precious moments was when we see how creating pictures with wool fibre lightens up the soul and fires the imagination of folks of any ages. - from under 3yrs of age to above 80yrs of age!
We would also love it if you would take some time and watch this wee video from last week's Writing Space event, Inspired by Art, where we mainly filmed clips of the music. We hope you will be blown away too by the skill and zest of the young people:
Monday, September 3, 2012
come along... paint with wool .... its so
cool... all ages and stages of life .... drop in / free flow ... if
full, wait your turn and choose a story or image or character you wish
to re-create as magic wool picture, or even in 3D (depending on your
skill and time available).. In the Penicuik Library, between 3 and 5pm!
This was just soo good: Live music accompanying the felt and fibre craft enthusiasts!
Great to meet so many nice people, making music instruments and fine crafts, and above all making music, all together in a big but cosy hall (Loanhead Miners). This family Saturday event was part of the Loanhead Music Festival (http://www.loanheadfest.co.uk/ ) and really deserves a huge round of applause! Reminded me of the Shetland Music Festival in spirit somehow.
The fact that the parents came for to chill out with the music allowed a few very lucky youngsters to have a splendid extra long crafting session, felting in tune: butterflies, rainbows, ladybirds, mice, - hm... what else? Some butterflies ended up in hairbands, as it is very popular. And some of our beloved story space creatures, the fox, the tiger and the owl, walked and flew off with their very chaffed new owners to our tearful but gracious goodbyes....!
Ania started practising for our coming Saturday's session, back in Penicuik townhall: weaving "God's Eyes", a beautiful simple and versatile little charm, known all over the world - from Mexico, USA, Great Britain to Russia:
The weeks and months fly this year, and we are as always still here. A bit more quiet than last year, taking our making space very much as a healing space, a home coming space, nurturing relationships and responding to requests like the other week to go to Leith for a Crops in Pots Party
and next week one of us will go to a Permaculture workshop weekend to weave and felt suns and butterflies for the garden. Just watch this space!
Jenni and Ania and some kids get together every Friday now usually in West Street, to get out of the house and get things done that way
like this teddy (on Gabrielle's sun!) here for baby (well done Ania!)
This week, tomorrow, on Saturday, we gather in the Arts Centre, Room 1, for an All-Welcome Wetfelting Class. Come and join us and refresh or newly acquire your wetfelting skills. Between 11.30 am and 1.30 pm. If you come early enough you might even have time to start and finish a wee 3D project! Not as big a bag as the top picture of course, where Jenny worked her shoulder bag, a project from over 5 hours. But a small purse like this here just might be possible ?
That was Ania's idea - to try it out: to cover eggs with wool! Above you see Ruth's 'painted with wool' egg drying out, and here you see Ania's in a warm multicoloured coat:
The great thing about these eggs is that they hollow, in good old continental tradition: blown out eggs, to be hang of spring branches to decorate the Easter Table or hall.
Blowing out action was a great laugh, as noone here had ever done that yet!
We have another two weeks to get crafty with eggs - and we made a good start today, as you can see also here: https://picasaweb.google.com/117445521233701725799/SpringIntoSummer
As well as other explorations of a lovely Saturday session ion the Arts Centre this Saturday (because the townhall was taken over by a wedding today!):
