Tuesday 6 August 2013

Needle felting


I had a wonderful day on Sunday with the delightful Jenny Tidman and our students.

Needle felting, and wet felting, fascinates me as I just can't get over that you get a bag of loose merino wool and through various processes, it felts together. Technically, as Jenny pointed out, you are knotting the wool together when you are stabbing it with a needle but felting is the common term, so needle felting is what we all know it as!

Jenny is a fantastic teacher, when you meet her you feel warm and welcomed and very comfortable with her, like you can just be your true self. Jenny teaches you all about the felting process and has different ways of showing and describing them all to you so you have a really good understanding of what you are doing, not just a description of how to do it.

This workshop was a small one, so Jenny just said - "make what you want, whatever is in your head"! And they did, as did I too!

One of the students was a 14 year old girl, we talked with her auntie about whether this was going to be 'cool enough' for her and it must have been as she was fantastic at it, couldn't put it down once she had started and has already planned to make something else at home!

It has inspired me to plan workshops during half-term for teenagers so keep your eyes peeled for when they go live!

Here is the workshop in pictures -

Busy stabbing away!

Need to concentrate hard - we all pricked our fingers at some point! 

It is most definitely cool enough for teenagers!

Amazing first-time needle felted animals!

This elephant looks amazing, her patience and skill gave great results.

Little Dave had beautiful detail needle felted into him!

My quirky little house, Jenny helped me with the design idea and I was relieved to see that I could shape a ball into having square edges!

We will be booking in a needle felting workshop soon. You can sign up to the newsletter to find out workshop news as it happens! Sign up here!

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