Felt Making Workshops - Southampton Feb. 2010

I  have just spent  a few days at Southampton City Art Gallery teaching feltmaking workshops, they went really well.
The first day was an intro to feltmaking for the uninitiated leading to more sophisticated techniques such as nunofelting.
The second day was spent making felt jewellery where participants made brooches from some of the felt samples made the previous day, and necklaces and bracelets out of felted  beads  and balls. The third day was for making felted objects, such as vessels objects and booties.
One person even made a full size version of felted boots. I love using felt it is so versatile and fluid, all is done use basic materials and equipment  and can be continued and developed on a kitchen surface if necessary. So satisfying, especially (in my case) making functional 3D objects.

 The initial form for the Booties/Slippers

The start of Beret type hat

Baby Booties

Small Felt Vessel














I am running another 2 days of feltmaking at Tex'Atelier at the end of March on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th see :  EVENTS AT TEXATELIER