Brief Description

I love the softness and variety of visual effects that you can achieve with felt.  I use an easy relaxing technique to make felt pieces that does not result in aching arms, just beautiful work! Come and try it out, it’s fun and you can make new friends along the way. On the first day, you will create a suitable design and colour scheme for this project so that you will understand how to design your own piece in the future. Then you will  make some pre-felt samples, learn how to blend colours and use resists.  On the second day, you will combine these ideas together resulting in a unique, original and beautiful bag.

By the end of the day you will have learned:

• design skills
• a brief history of felt / makers
• pre-felt methods
• fulling techniques
• finishing methods

EXTRA COSTS ON THE COURSE (YOU WILL NEED TO PROVIDE):

• 50g of black, 50g of white and 100g merino wool (maximum) in white plus a small amount of colour/colours (300g max in total)
• an apron which is fabric or plastic coated.
• 3 pieces of bubble wrap (approx. 30x30cm each)
• 2 old towels
• a small bamboo or grass table mat or a polystyrene tube
• a small bowl
• carders if you have them

On completion of this course, what might your next steps be?

A follow-on two day workshop in needle felt in August.

Adult Learn and Train offer courses through-out the year.
Try similar courses or maybe look at learning something completely new.
You will find provision on some Saturday and Sundays, you will also find courses available in the day and evening at different venues in Cambridge. Courses vary in length from one-off sessions to 10 weeks or more.