Looking forward to another year of creative felting! 

In 2014 I will more concentrate on needle felted Nature beings: dwarfs, gnomes, elves.... and fairies anyway. I will offer needle felt workshops for creating your very unique Nature being. Please, watch this space! 

Hot water bottel cover

Felting a hot water bottle cover was my wish for quite a while...and here it is! For the base I used white Shetland wool, which I got as a fleece and washed, teased and carded. 

Hot water bottle cover in progress

Looking for an appropriate design I used brown-, red-, orange- and yellow shades from merino wool for the fiery embellishment. I love the cover and it is so cozy and soft and of course warm.  

The fiery finished cover

A fantastic day at GalGael's Christmas Fayre last Saturday

Last Saturday the 14th of December I had a stall at the fantastic Christmas Fayre in Galgael (www.galgael.org)
Kids and adults enjoyed a day of meeting friends, making new friends, enjoying delicious home made soup, cakes, coffee, tea and much more. All stalls were selling hand made and creatively, beautifully designed items. Galgael had wooden chopping boards, wooden coasters, benches made from recycled whiskey barrels and more wooden products made in GalGael's workshop for sale.If you've missed this fayre,...there will probably  be a next fayre in Spring. You can subscribe to GalGael's newsletter to get all the news in time.

Afternoon felt workshop in Galgael, in Ibrox / Glasgow Thursday, the 12th of Dec. 4-5.30pm

Felting is a traditional skill that has been practiced for thousands of years. We still practice it here in GalGael and are happy to teach you how to do it!

The aim of this workshop is to learn the basic skills of traditional wet felting, using natural and colourful sheep’s wool fibers, warm water, soap and friction.
 
You will:
● learn to felt a flat piece e.g. a little picture,
a felted piece for a brooch or a felted flower
● experiment with colours and design
● take home a unique piece of hand made felt.

At the end of the workshop you will have your own felted items and have learned a new and traditional skill.
Please bring 1 towel and a plastic bag for your finished work.

Cost: £5 including material
Please feel free to invite your friends!
Workshop facilitator: Laryna E. Wuppermann, Fiber craft artist
Please book asap, as places are limited
GalGael office: 0141/ 427 30 70
Venue: Galgael, 15 Fairley Street, G51 2SN Glasgow/Ibrox