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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Nov 22, 2017 11:04:49 GMT
I just wanted to share something with you, this weekend I am part of a spinning, weaving and anything fibre group and we have a weekend away - during the weekend we have a few community like activities;
one of these is to complete some felt work started by a lady, I never met but sadly has died. The group have a box of half felted pieces from her so collectively we are going to complete them.
Then on top of that piece of heartfelt work, we have a group of women coming along who sing songs in Gaelic - Waulking the Cloth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waulking_song)
We are going to be having a go at contact dyeing and making felted gnomes onto driftwood - I am so excited :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Nov 22, 2017 11:09:41 GMT
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Post by lyn on Nov 22, 2017 12:26:59 GMT
You are going to have fun! I hope you get some photos for us.
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Post by MTRuth on Nov 22, 2017 16:51:09 GMT
That sounds like a wonderful weekend Carole. We would love for you to share it with a blog post if you'd like. You can just pm me if you're interested in writing a post.
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Post by Pandagirl on Nov 23, 2017 3:09:06 GMT
Sounds wonderful. Enjoy! Please let us know how it goes.
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Nov 30, 2017 8:26:06 GMT
the blog of the weekend is now up - it was magical
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RobinG
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Post by RobinG on Nov 30, 2017 8:39:43 GMT
Thanks for writing that blog post. I enjoyed it. The piece your group finished for the artist who had died--wow! I really liked that.
You may be interested to know--last year my mother (who lives in the US) was invited to a birthday party for a friend--it was a waulking the cloth party. The birthday girl had woven 2 large alpaca blanks and they waulked them. My mother said it was really interesting.
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Nov 30, 2017 12:11:12 GMT
That is interesting, did they sing as they waulked?
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RobinG
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Post by RobinG on Nov 30, 2017 19:35:55 GMT
That is interesting, did they sing as they waulked? I think they did. I'll have to ask my mother. |
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Post by MTRuth on Nov 30, 2017 20:36:13 GMT
Cool, I had never heard of waulking before Carole's post.
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RobinG
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Post by RobinG on Dec 2, 2017 8:40:30 GMT
I spoke to my mother. She said they drank wine, laughed a lot and listened to the waulking songs but since no one knew the words, they didn't sing. She said the blankets turned out beautifully.
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Post by Shepherdess on Dec 4, 2017 1:00:26 GMT
It was a great blog post.
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