We are a group of women (but men are welcome!) who have an interest in textile art and embroidery. We are of mixed abilities and there is no need for you to be able to sew to come and join us - there are no tests!
New members are always welcome - why not call in and join us as a guest for a few months?
Meeting fee for visitors is only £5.
Our meetings vary - we have talks and workshops, show and tell - we also have lots of weekend workshops and playdays. For details of what's coming up (and what's been and gone!) check out our programme below...

Sunday 8 November 2015

November Workshop - Felting Three Ways!

Following on from our talk by Julie Turner at our November meeting, (see earlier post), she agreed to run a workshop for us covering lots of aspects of felting. 
Julie brought along items made by herself and others, including a lovely tree/rabbit scene made for her by her daughter Isabel, and also Isabel's wedding bouquet, which you can see on the below photograph. 




Lots of lovely wet-felted pieces made by Julie

First of all we did some 2D needle-felting, making an array of pink and purple flowers

Then we did some 3D needle-felting, making a forest of toadstools.


And a dog.

Julie then taught us her quick and easy way of wet-felting - much quicker and easier than other ways we had tried felting before, many of us made a couple of pieces in the time we had left. If you want to know what method Julie uses, you'll just have to book a workshop with her! 

Below are all the pieces that we made during the workshop - vases of flowers and some beautiful landscapes. 

















Julie rounded off the workshop by demonstrating her embellisher and then letting us have a go...

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