LAST DAY SATURDAY 27TH JUNE 2009

Saturday 27th June 2009 is the last day, so make sure you do not miss this years premier event for Llanidloes.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the Festival this year and helped make it a tremendous success.

PHOTOS OF CREATIVE WOOLCRAFT WORKSHOP

Here are some images and inspiration from the Creative Woolcraft Workshop facilitated by Meg Dixon. Thanks for all who participated.

WRONG DATE FOR CLOSE OF FESTIVAL IN JULY ISSUE KNITTING MAGAZINE

Anyone who has seen the details about the Festival in the July Issue of Knitting Magazine will note that it says the festival runs to 30th June 2009.

This is an ERROR and the festival actually finishes on Saturday June 27th. Appologies to anyone who does not see this message and turns up after the 27th.

PHOTOS FROM IINTRODUCTION TO NEEDLE FELTING WORKSHOP 20TH

Here are some photos of the successful Needle Felting workshop run by Olwen Veevers at The Wool and Willow Festival at The Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes June 20th 2009

Thanks to everyone who participated and Well done!

PHOTOS FROM WET AND INLAY FELTING WORKSHOP

Photos from the Wet Felting and Inlay workshopheld at The Wool and Willow Festival 21th June 2009

facilitated by Olwen Veevers

Thanks to everyone for an enjoyable day

The Wool and Willow Ball

The Wool and Willow ball taking shape during the Festival by the visitors.

PHOTOS OF THE WILLOW BIRD SCULPTURE WORKSHOP TODAY 19TH June 2009

The Willow Bird Sculpture workshop was a great success with some lovely exotic specimens at the end. Thanks to all who came and participated - Beryl Smith (Workshop Facilitator)

PHOTOS OF PLANT SUPPORT WORKSHOP

Here are some photos of the very successful Plant Support Workshop that was on Tuesday 16th June hosted by The Wool and Willow Festival Llanidloes and run by Beryl Smith. Thanks to Gaele, Sarah, Joanna, Twink, Liz and Beryl who made the day so enjoyable and also made some lovely Plant Supports.

FUNDING AQUIRED

This years Festival has been supported with a successful grant application from the above to help with Marketing and support workshops including working with Coleg Powys Arts Students and Llanidloes GCSE High School Art Students using willow to create sculpture, these were facilitated by Beryl Smith. Also to work with groups of children from Llanidloes Primary School running workshops at the Minerva Art Centre making Flower Garlands with Lois Grindy, working with Wool with Sasha Kagan and making felted catapillars with Olwen Veevers.

BEGINNERS BASKET WORKSHOP BY BERYL SMITH ON TUESDAY 9TH JUNE 2009

Thanks to all who attended by Beginners Basket workshop yesterday. It was a fun and exiting day with everyone achieving a small basket to take home. Here are some images of the day.

SASHA KAGAN CROCHET WORKSHOP

Sunday 7th June hosted a very successful Crochet Workshop by Sasha Kagan our very own local renowned international knitwear designer.

Hope you enjoy the photos.

Festival has opened

The festival opened on Saturday 6th and was very busy.

This year we have a stunning display of exhibits of a very high quality, many of which are for sale.

Come along and have a browse, and if you fancy get involved by coming to one of the workshop, a list of which is on the learning curve tab on the home page of web site.

THIS YEARS WORKSHOP WITH COLEG POWYS

The Wool and Willow Festival managed to get funding to host workshops in wool and willow workshops with the students of Llanidloes High School, Llanidloes Primary School and Coleg Powys.

The Willow sculpture workshop run by Beryl Smith with some of the Art students of Coleg Powys has already taken place on Wednesday 20th May and here are some photos of the day. More later when they are finished.

It was a very successful and fun day with lots of creativity and positive feedback, the students are going to finish their pieces and hopefully we will be able to display some of them during the festival, although this does clash with their end of year shows which some of the sculptures being included unfortunately. I will hopefully get photos of the finished items to show later.

Here are some photos of the day. More will be on the website under 'workshops' in a day or two.

This years Workshops now listed

This years workshops are now listed in the

'The Learning Curve'

Check out the Learning Curve for a comprehensive list of all the workshops available during the 3 weeks of the festival.

Come and learn a new skill and have fun at the same time.

There is more information on our website.

Wool and Willow goes LIVE

We are proud to announce that the Wool and Willow Festival web site is now live, all be it small for now, more will be added shortly.

Please bear with us and more will be updated in the next few weeks, including a comprehensive list of the workshops that will be available during the festival