Felting Fun!
At the beginning of October, Felt United Day and Fun Palaces coincided so with the help of Craft Reactor I celebrated them both. We had a free felt making workshop that attracted 17 people completely new to making felt. By the end of the day there were 21 felt flags based on the Felt United 2015 theme of "home". The flags were stitched together overnight by Carmen from Craft Reactor and decorated the following day's Fun Palace events. That's them at the top of this post strung along the balustrade at Old College Quad, University of Edinburgh in a photo by Heather Rea who made the tenth flag from the left. There was a lot going on in the Quad to celebrate the arrival of the Mini Kelpies sculpture - chocolate science experiments, circus skills workshops, geometric sculpture building and more. I'll put a full post with lots more pictures on the Craft Reactor site in the very near future. For about a week around the workshops I felt totally burnt out but it