The celebration of festivals is an important part of education at the Waldorf schools. Michaelmas is celebrated as the “festival of courage”. It falls at the time of the year when the earth travels through the tail end of the late summer meteor showers and the northern hemisphere starts to tilt away from the sun. […]
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Harvest Festival 2015
On September 6th the Sunshine Coast Spinners and Weavers Guild once again participated in the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden’s Harvest Festival. Lynda D. and Merrily arrived at 8:30 and undertook the challenging task of setting up the two tents. Despite the cool, overcast day a number of visitors stopped to look at our Sunshine Coast […]
Read MoreNuno Felting: a Creative Fibre Weekend
First Workshop: Introduction to Nuno Felting On June 12th Marie Claire and I attended the workshop Introduction to Nuno Felting as facilitated by Jill Denton from Devon, England. Jill’s exciting body of work titled Maids and Meadows was showcased at FibreWorks Studio & Gallery and enticed us to register for the first of two workshops […]
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