Felt a landscapes - 2 day workshop

Felt a landscapes - 2 day workshop

Come and join us for a fun and creative weekend at Boston Spa Village Hall! In this 2 day workshop, you will learn the art of felting a landscape.

Relax, unwind and create… you will be taught how to wet felt (on day 1) and needle felt (on day 2) to create your own wet felted landscape to take home. It’s perfect for beginners!

Images of landscapes to work from will be provided, however I’d love you to bring your own too. Is there a special landscape you’d like to create, somewhere you have been on holiday or as a child? Ideally this should be mainly landscape (ideally: no buildings, animals or people) and I’ll take you through step by step how to transform it into felt. Feel free to bring as many images as you like and I can help you choose the right one for the day.

You will learn the wet felting technique, this involves laying out the dry loose merino wool to create your wet felted landscape. At the end we add warm soapy water and friction to make it turn into a solid piece of felt. I still find it magical today and love this process. If you struggle with the final part of the process (rolling the wool to get it to matt together) I will be on hand to help you every step of the way – so just let me know you need help. You will take home your wet felted landscape to dry and bring back on Sunday.

You will learn how to needle felt into your (now dry) wet felted landscape to add more details. You can decide on the day if you would also like to hand sew into it, add some beads or some simple hand embroidery – to further enhance your wet felted landscape. We work sat down on day 2.

NOTE | Needle felting is not sewing. Needle felting is using a special barbed needle that you stab small pieces of wool into the wet felted landscape to add more details than you can at the wet felting stage. It is easy to do and also very therapeutic stabbing into the wool – as long as you miss your fingers

• All equipment
• Merino wool
• Landscape pictures (if you don’t have your own)
• Embroidery threads
• Drinks (tea/ coffee/ biscuits)

Host or Publisher Janine Jacques