Author Archives: fionaodriscoll2647

I have been enjoying running more workshops this year, with both adults and children. We have used wool and dog wood to make Ojo de Dios and flower garlands and people seem to have found the work relaxing and enjoyable. If you’d like me to run a workshop or provide birthday party entertainment please getContinue reading “Workshops”

Meet the newest member of the Samhain gang, a Banshee with wild hair to join the Witches Zombies and Puca

I ran a fun workshop at the wonderful Night and Day festival in Lough Key , Roscommon in June 2024. We wove Ojos de Dios with dogwood and hope to run more workshops like it next summer. Here’s a video of the zombies preparing for their first festival, they are available to order for Halloween

All my work is available through this website on a commission basis, just get in touch with me through my email sundew37@gmail.com Commissions

In 2023 a documentary student from Trinity got in touch with me and asked if she could visit and make a short film. We had a lovely morning together, she even put on wellies and came down the bog. Here’s a youtube link if you’d like to see her work.

THE BIRD AND THE BOG I took part in an exhibition this Feb (2023) in the Leitrim Design House as part of a wonderful group of talented women, The Sinann Circle. I created a few new pieces inspired by the Leitrim countryside, especially the bogs that surround my house. I used mainly organic wool, naturallyContinue reading “An t-éan agus an portach”

If you need some Easter Bunnies in your life just get in touch! They make lovely finger puppets when the creme egg has been eaten

This year I’ve been making Christmas hats and gone back to making angels , I gave them extra colourful hair as they can be your guardian angel hanging from a car mirror or on the top of a tree 🎄🚗

What could be more lovely than a pair of handknit fingerless gloves, in the colour of your choice and with a fair isle design of your favourite thing? With a long cuff to keep your wrists warm and giving freedom to your thumb and fingers so you can use your phone or scratch your nose.Continue reading “Fox Gloves”

Hand knit in pure wool and stuffed with organic fleece, a special series of bears, no two the same! €20 each and postage extra