The first get-together of the Kiri Cottage Crafts Club meets on Tuesday 24th October 2023 from 6pm to 9pm at my workshop located between Kircubbin and Portaferry Co Down, Northern Ireland.
Bring what you are working on, or something you are ‘stuck’ with, or just come along to learn something new. If you can’t make the full 3 hours, just drop in when you can.
There is no fee – just a donation to our chosen charity: Equine Halfway House Rescue and Refuge, based in Lisburn.
Drop in for as long as you can for tea, coffee, buns and craic!
Kiri Cottage Crafts Club meets fortnightly (very loosely) on Tuesdays from 6pm to 9pm at my workshop located between Kircubbin and Portaferry Co Down, Northern Ireland.
There is no fee – just a donation to our chosen charity: Equine Halfway House Rescue and Refuge, based in Lisburn.
Drop in for as long as you can for tea, coffee, buns and craic!
Hats off to Clive from from Welig Heritage Crafts, Portaferry, as he guided four of us through the process of weaving a hare from willow.
The very creative ladies and gentleman of Ballywalter Seniors Club made a herd of alpacas at their meeting last Monday.
Armed with felt, beads, ribbon and a rainbow of embroidery threads, they stitched their way through the session, most not even stopping to have their tea and sandwiches (well, until the pineapple delights arrived…).
Great, enthusiastic bunch – thank you all for an entertaining afternoon!
The very creative ladies and gentleman of Ballywalter Seniors Club made a herd of alpacas at their meeting last Monday.
Armed with felt, beads, ribbon and a rainbow of embroidery threads, they stitched their way through the session, most not even stopping to have their tea and sandwiches (well, until the pineapple delights arrived…).
Great, enthusiastic bunch – thank you all for an entertaining afternoon!
As part of the Ards and North Down Council run Creative Peninsula, I ran a spinning and a peg loom weaving workshop.
I ran a couple of craft sessions in collaboration with Mourne Alpacas, Dromara this month, with groups of students from local schools.
The teenagers spent the mornings being introduced to the alpacas (and all the other animals on the farm), learning about alpacas, about their fleeces and all the things that can be made from it.
I ran beaded bracelets sessions with them, using pony beads and alpaca charms, and was amazed at their creativity and how engaged they were with the craft.
This Rag Rug workshop take two, with Portavogie seniors a couple of weeks, ago saw us making rag rugs on Hessian sacking with crochet hooks and rug latch tools.
There was lots of chat, and hard work helped with the creativity. A cup of tea and a biscuit was very welcome!
This workshop offered an insight into traditional craft industries that provided an income for women on the Ards Peninsula in the 1800s.
I have been commissioned to provide a number of craft sessions for both Portavogie and Ballywalter senior clubs. The first of these workshops ran this week with a lovely group of ladies in Portavogie.
