It doesn’t sound very English - so what does ‘nuno’ mean and what has it to do with wet felting? Developed in the early 90s by Polly...

It’s a mad mad world in which we’re living. Wet-felt making and other crafts, involve detailed working at a methodical pace, which is...

It seems a while since I restarted workshops from my riverside studio in mid-Wales. It’s been absolutely great to welcome people back...

How can the Japanese art of shibori be used to create fabulous shapes in wet-felting? In its simplest sense, shibori is a method of...

When I want some time off from the magic of felt-making I look to magic of a different kind – Cyanotypes. A cyanotype is an image created...

We may think that felt-making is a ‘new’ craft when we look at the array of beautiful felt art, wearable nuno-felted clothing, felt...

It’s been a long year (and a bit)! The pandemic kept us all indoor for months on end and the freedom we had before Christmas 2020 was all...

What a strange month we’ve just encountered – so sunny, but the coldest and driest April for donkey’s years! And now, as we enter May we...

I know I say this a lot and perhaps it’s a sign of getting older, but the time is flying by! Who would have thought, a year ago, that...

Where has the time gone?! These last two months have flown by and the more astute amongst you will know that I didn’t even find the time...

As the saying goes – “Only take the good things forward”. I’m delighted to announce therefore that I shall commence online ‘back to...

This time last year I was looking forward to a family Christmas at home and in the final planning stages of a trip to India which I had...

It’s going to be a long winter so there’s never been a time when creativity and innovation has been more important (not in our generation...

With Storm Alex’s wind and rain battering my window I have succumbed to lighting a fire. I suppose that means autumn is really here and...

The first day of meteorological autumn already….. What a strange old summer it was – the months just merging into one another as we...

Another month has passed – I’ve never known such a period of supposed inactivity to go by so quickly. We here in Wales are at last able...

As I write this I am looking at torrential rain through my window – what happened to the glorious weather we had in May? Other than a...

Are you getting used to the restrictions and new ways of working or screaming with frustration and yearning to return to the ‘old’ norm?...

How the world has changed since I last blogged! I hope that you and your families are keeping healthy. Are you going stir crazy with the...

It’s been ages since my last blog and it seems like the whole world has changed in that time. I went to India at the end of February,...