Create a seamless pouch, vessel or wrist cuffs-wet felt workshop

Two separate wet felt workshops on Saturday, 18. March, 1.30-5.00pm and Saturday 22. April 1.30-5.00pm 2017

You'll learn to create a seamless pouch, wrist cuffs or a vessel using colourful sheep’s wool fibres, warm water, soap and friction and felt around a template. It’s great fun to experience the process of wet felting. You’ll start with fluffy soft wool fibres and transform those into a firm, felted, useful item. Craft experience welcome. If wet felting is completely new to you but you have general craft experience, then I recommend to create a small felt item like a pouch. 

This workshop is suitable for children age 10+ with interest in craft and accompanied by an adult. Price per participant: £22 per workshop. 
In case you would like to felt a cover for a mini hot water bottle, then basic felt experience is expected and the price for the workshop would be an extra £3, which means £25 for the workshop, incl. mini hot water bottle.
Max. 4 participants. Please book and pay in advance to secure your place. 

Venue: G64 1QY, Glasgow/Bishopbriggs

More info here:  
www.laryna.com

Last Saturday's felt workshop with four talented participants

Various colourful wool tops

It was great spending an afternoon teaching wet felting to four talented beginners. Everybody started with felting a bead to experience the process of felting and the transformation from fluffy wool fibres into a well felted object. 

Then templates were chosen or cut to create a seamless pouch, vessel or wrist cuffs. Now the question, which colours to choose from a vast variety of colour shades.

Merino wool tops

Then everybody was ready to start laying out the fibres in scales, covering the first layer with a net and sprinkling hot water on the surface, adding glycerine soap and eventually gently padding down the fibres which were absorbing the water. Trust in the process and my reassurance that all was going well was needed. Some little mistakes helped to demonstrate how to improve for a better outcome.

One layer of wool fibres

Two or three criss-cross layers on each side of the template were felted into beautiful felted objects. Embellishments were made with creativity and accuracy and well designed colour combinations. Then the rubbing started to connect and interlock the fibres into a felted fabric. Eventually the pinch test showed that the fibres were matting together and the rolling and waulking could start which helpsed to shrink and firm the felted items. "Yeah, it has shrunk!", was the happy and amazed expression I've heard a couple of times.

The fibres have bonded

-I still find it magical when the fibres bind and a firm fabric develops under my hands. The following photos show the finished items from this wet felt workshop. Four happy participants left with a new experience and their beautiful felted items. The little bags still need a cord and a lining for the finishing  touch.  
The next dates for wet felt workshops will be on Saturday, 19th March and 16. April 2016, 2.00-5.30pm. Costs: £22. Please book your place asap.

Wrist cuffs from Shetland wool

Felted vessel

Little merino wool bag

Little felted bag

Wet felt workshop for adults and kids in Glasgow, Wednesday, 29th July 2-5pm

 

Come and join us for some wet felting fun! Create a felted seamless pouch, a felted picture, felted flowers or brooches, a necklace or bracelet. Learn a new skill or improve your existing felting skills.
This felt workshop is suitable for adults and for children from 8 years, accompanied by an adult.
No previous experience needed.
Cost: £12/person for 3 hours workshop
Please feel free to invited friends!
Please book asap, as spaces are limited to 6 participants.
Mobile:07503210416
The venue is a meeting room in the basement of 35 Carnarvon Street, G3 6HP, near Charing Cross, St Georges Cross, Woodlands Road
Blog and website: www.laryna.com

Seamless felted case for glasses

Felted seamless pouch

Felted vessel

Create a seamless felted pouch – half day wet felt workshop on Wednesday, 01. July 2015, 10am-1pm

You’ll learn to create a seamless pouch, using colourful sheep’s wool fibres, warm water, glycerine soap, and friction and felt around a template. It’s great fun to experience the process of wet felting.

Felted pouch

You’ll start with fluffy soft wool fibres and transform those into a firm, felted useful item. Children from 10 years on and teenager,  when accompanied by an adult are welcome! Cost: £18/£15 concession. Max. 5 participants. Please, book in advance to secure your place! Please pay the fee at start of the workshop.

Venue: 63 Crowhill Road, G64 1QY, Glasgow/Bishopbriggs (near the train station and Bishopbriggs town centre).

Two felt workshops for the "Journey on" participants in GalGael

I know GalGael in Glasgow-Ibrox for 6 years and I love this place! Here people are trained in traditional crafts, boats are built and an open hearted community is created over many years. 
I am a wool craft volunteer in GalGael, joining the clan on most Thursday late afternoons till late.
In February and March I facilitated 2 felt workshops on Fridays for participants of the "JOURNEY ON" program. 
It was good fun and everybody went home with a mostly colourful self made item from felted wool. 
During the first workshop the participants learned about the basics of wet felting and applied it. They created a firmly felted solid ball or stone shaped item and a flat felt from colourful fluffy sheep's wool. 

Firmly felted balls and stones

Colourful flat felts

In the second felt workshop those, who had learned and applied the basic wet felt skills in the first workshop went on learning how to felt a seamless felted pouch. 

Seamless pouches and more balls and flat felts

Good fun to make the pouches firm and strong by banging them on the table. Yes, that helps! 
To find out more about Galgael, please check out their website: www.galgael.org

Felt workshop in Glasgow: Felt your own bag, beret, vessel or slippers

Felt making is an ancient technique to create a woollen fabric. I love it and like to share my experience and skills with you. Wet felting is a really amazing process, where fluffy sheep's wool turns into a sturdy, but still soft fabric. You can create beautiful items, like decorative objects and wearables and give them your very personal creative and artistic touch.  

Shetland and merino wool felted bag
with needle felted leaf embellishment

 

In this wet felt class for intermediate and advanced felters you will

• create your own made-to-measure pattern

• use a resist to create a seamless bag, beret, vessel or slippers 

• learn about the process of wel felting around a resist to create a hollow felt

• experiment with colours and design

• take home your very personal felt piece 

 Basic experience in feltmaking is essential for this workshop.

 Please bring a towel, a bar of glycerin soap (e.g. pears) and a plastic bag for your finished, but still wet, felted item.

Tea will be provided. Please bring a packed lunch.
 
Venue: 35 Carnarvon Street, Glasgow, G3, (between Charing Cross and St Georges Cross)

Cost: £42 incl. material.    For 4-5 participants only.

Please book in advance to secure your place!

Email: laryna108@gmail.com  Mobile: 07503 210 416  

Felted shetland and merino wool slippers

Wet felted merino wool beret

 

Wet felt class in Glasgow's West End on Saturday the 23. of March 10.30am-1.30pm, for beginners+

Felt making is an ancient technique to create a woollen fabric. I love it and like to share my experience and skills with you, if you are interested.   

In this wet felt class you will 

• learn about the process of wet felting
• experiment with colours and design
• use a template to create a seamless, hollow vessel e.g. a pouch, a  little bag or wrist cuffs.

Felted pouch 

Felted case for a pair of glasses

Please bring a towel, a bar of glycerin soap (e.g. pears) and a plastic bag for your finished items.

Tea will be provided.
Cost: £18/£15

Venue: Between Charing Cross and St Georges Cross

For 4-6 participants only.
Please book in advance to secure your place!
 
Email: laryna108@gmail.com
Mobile: 07503 210 416
The following link leads you to a post of one of my workshops earlier this year. There you can find the finished projects from participants and a testimonial.
http://creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/felt-classes-in-glasgows-west-end-and.html

Felt classes in Glasgow's West End and in Bishopbriggs

I really love to share my felt making skills with everybody being interested to learn about it!

Wet felt class

in Glasgow's West End on Saturday the 26. of January 10.30am-1.30pm, for beginners and intermediate.

Costs: £18/£15

You will

• learn to wet felt something hollow,
• experiment with colours and design
• use a template to create either a pouch, a purse, a little bag for a mobile or Iphone, a pair of glasses, wrist cuffs or baby booties. 

 For 4-6 participants only. Please book at least 2 days in advance.

The following items were felted by participants of this wet felt class on Sat. 26. of Jan. Sorry, the colours aren't as bright in the photos as they originally are.
A feedback from one of the participants after this wet felt class:

Thank you for such an enjoyable wet felting class. We were all different ages and experience, but you managed to help everyone and shared your expertise with us. It was a lovely atmosphere, we had fun while learning a new craft and we each went home with a piece of work that we had made on the day.

What a lovely way to learn...looking forward to the next class.

IPhone case

 

Blackberry case

Little felted bag

Case for a pair of glasses

Wrist cuffs

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Felt a nuno scarf

Workshop in Glasgow's West End on Saturday, the 16. of February, 10.30am-3pm, for beginners with general craft experience and intermediate.

Costs: £30

In this workshop you will

• learn how to combine wool with cotton muslin or silk chiffon fabric.
• experiment with colours and design
• use fringes for decoration
• create a wearable felt scarf
  

For 3-4 participants only.
Please bring an old towel for the felting and a packed lunch for a wee break.
Please book at least 2 days in advance.

Nuno felted scarves

Nuno felted scarf with Shetland wool and chiffon silk

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Needle felt class in Bishopbriggs

 on Saturday, 23. of February. 10.30am-12.30pm,

for beginners+

Costs: £8

 You will learn

• to use a felt needle to sculpture with colourful and natural sheep's wool.
• to create one or two magical beings from the natural realm, like fairies, gnomes, dwarfs, devas and/or nature related items like mushrooms little animals and more.

Please book in advance.

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Regular felt classes

(needle - and wet felting) for children and adults in

Glasgow's West End: Wednesday, 4-5.30pm,

 06. and 20. of February.... and every 2 weeks. 

Costs per session: £5.

Little needle felted dwarfs

This class runs every two weeks since summer 2011 and is a vibrant inspiring class for all skill levels. It is a parent and children interactive class and for adults, who love the company of children, even they don't bring their own. 
You will learn basic needle felt and wet felt skills and improve your skills as you go ahead. 
Please book latest 1 day in advance!

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Regular needle felt class for adults, in Bishopbriggs: Wednesday, 10-11.30am, on 16. and 30. of January and 13.and 27. of February.....and every 2 weeks.

Costs per session: £6/£5.

Needle felted butterflies

This class runs every two weeks for two years and is a class with just 3 to 5 participants. The atmosphere is relaxed, and a cup of tea is part of my service. You can learn to sculpture with wool and a felt needle. It's fun and very creative. All skill levels from beginners to advanced.  I sometimes run wet felt classes on demand on a Wednesday morning in Bishopbriggs. Please ask for the address of the venue and book latest 1 day in advance.

  

Needle felted Brighid and sheep

More felt workshops in August and September

The next 2 felt workshops, one in Glasgow's East (11am-12.30pm) and the other in the West of Glasgow (4-6pm), will run on Wed 31st of August. 

Come along to learn wet felting or improve the skills in felting you already have.  Have fun, enjoy and create something beautiful out of lovely coloured sheep's wool.  Workshops for children from 5 years onward and for adults. Children should be accompanied by an adult if I don't know them already.  Suggested donation for the 1.5 h workshop in Dennistoun £3 and for the 2 h workshop in the Westend £4 (or £6 if you will make a seamless pouch or mobile phone bag).

Arts and Crafts in the Garden

Felt workshop

Wednesday 31st Aug, 11-12.30pm

Dennistoun Community Garden

42-44 Circus Drive (round the back), G31 2JE

Fun for all age groups, from 5 years onward!

Contact Rox at 07708044560 or Dennistoun.diggers.events@gmail.com

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...and in Glasgow's Westend

Felt workshop

Wednesday 31st Aug, 4-6pm

Carnavon Street

Fun for all age groups from 5 years onward!

Contact: Laryna at 07503210416 or email: laryna108@gmail.com

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Nuno felt workshop
as part of the Penicuik and District Arts Festival

Saturday 10th of September 2011, 1-5pm, £25 

 West Street Arts Centre in Penicuik, venue #2

(Please book in advance, spaces are limited) 

Nuno felt scarf in warm colours

Nuno felt scarf in watery colours

Nuno felt scarf, 2 slightly different sides

 Nuno felting is a fabric felt technique. The name is derived from the Japanese word "nuno", which means cloth. the technique bonds loose fibres, usually wool into a sheer fabric such as silk gauze, creating a lightweight felt. You will learn how to make a nuno scarf, using wool and a piece of silk fabric. Previous experience in felting or good craft skills would be required. 

Contact: Laryna 07503210416 or email: laryna108@gmail.com

Please check out the website of Penicuik and District Arts Festival: http://pdaf2011.weebly.com/

Felted seamless bags and cases

This commissioned seamless felted handbag is made out of grey Shetland wool and lilac shades of merino wool. There is a little additional pocket for small utensils inside.
The ivy leave shapes are needle felted and attached after the bag had been felted. 
The felted strap has been sewn on the bag. I felted another smaller handbag, which you can see at the bottom of this page.

The size of this handbag is about 20 x 25cm

 

Here you see the closure with 2 buttons and a felted loop



"Water", case for glaces,



"Fire", case for glaces

 Little bag for utensils

Lilac bag with needle felted ivy leaf

Here the ivy leaf is directly needle felted on the finished felt bag.



Needle felted ivy leaf:detail of lilac bag





All day felt-making workshop in Penicuik

Last Thursday, the 6th of January, I worked with some lovely people in Penicuik delivering a wet felting course.
Making Space Penicuik writes:
".....we had a great full day and full-on felting workshop with 6 women and one child facilitated by Laryna from Glasgow. It was an advanced/intermediate wet felting course, but most participants had not done much or even any wet felting at all."{my friend}...... "organised the workshop because proper wet-felting, esp of strong wearebles, is not on offer in the Saturday sessions at the town hall, but as people really wanted to have both the experience of the fullness of felt craft for a change, plus because they wanted to wear something proper made of felt, such as hat or a bag".

Here you see a reversible hat in two colours in different stages of the felting process

When I was asked to facilitate an all day felt workshop I agreed instantly, because I really love to share my skills and experience.
After I demonstrated the process of a seamless felted bag everybody started with her own project of choice, like bags, pouches and hats. After the coloured wool had been chosen and the templates have been made, the laying out of fibers could start.... Hot water and soap were prepared to be applied to the fibers. The hands started to glide gently over the netting which was protecting the fibers from sliding apart.
Making Space Penicuik wrote on, showing some pictures: "Here you see one of the first finished felt projects: Katie's bag ready for taking home and making felt bead closure. It is quite hard work to get it all right - the even layering of the fibres, to make the seamless smooth and firm, and full (rolling hard) the fabric until desired wearable firmness is achieved."

Sarah's big shoulder bag ready to be cut open.

"Craft instructor and maker Laryna was very impressed with the outcomes: Really beautifully and strongly worked seamless felt fabric items! And the new makers were happy about the outcome of this day. Plans are being hatched to no more buy Christmas presents but to make them oneself!"
Good luck and fun for that and better start right now! says I!
"More pictures of the felts of this day and the 'fabulous way of removing air' (= another name for 'felt making') to follow. So watch this space!"

Anneruth made a couple of short videos of the felt demonstration, so I am certainly watching that space, too!
Thank you, Making Space Penicuik, for your kind words, fab spirit and great pictures! It is so hard to make pictures myself when I have all hands full in a workshop!

And I love it having my hands full - so, everybody out there in Glasgow and further afield:
Are y o u interested to learn about felt making? Please contact me and ask for more information!

Maxines felted bag, lovely embellished