Wet felt workshop 4.Nov. 10.00-13.00

Felted wrist cuffs

Create a seamless felt or a flat felt:
Felt making is a traditional technique to create a fabric out of sheep's wool fibres, using warm water, soap and friction.
In this felt workshop you will learn the skill of wet felting or improve your existing felting skills.
You’ll start with colourful fluffy, soft wool fibres and transform those into a firm, felted, useful item, like a seamless pouch, or seamless wrist cuffs or a flat felt. It can be a fantastic opportunity to create a very unique gift. It's fun and rewarding! 
All hollow items will be felted around a resist pattern.
This workshop is suitable for beginners and intermediate.
Cost: £18/£15 concession.
A complementary cup of tea and biscuits are included.
Booking in advance is essential, as numbers are limited to 4 participants.
Please feel free to invite friends!
Venue: 63 Crowhill Road, G64 1QY, Glasgow/Bishopbriggs
My website: www.laryna.com

Pouch for a pair of glasses

Felted pouches

Felted vessel

Wrist cuffs

  

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

 

My latest projects: Needle felted dwarfs, slippers and a vessel



Little dwarf with a treasure bag

It's such great fun for me to needle felt these little dwarfs. They are little characters! While I'm creating them they develop this character and then I know what colour shade to use and what tool or item they'll carry. I'm happy to teach how to create these and other little figures in my felt workshops in Glasgow and surroundings. Here you can find out more about felt workshops:
http://creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.co.uk/p/workshops-and-bespoke-fiber-craft.html



4 dwarfs in my garden

These are my first felted slippers, made from white shetland wool and triangular pre-felted colourful scraps. I used a cardboard template much bigger than my feet to felt these seemless slippers. The felting and especially the fulling was hard work and took me a couple of hours.  
Eventually it was rewarding and I love to wear them on my feet and feel the warmth and coziness.


Wet felted slippers
 

 

This vessel was felted around a template like the slippers above. This time it was interesting for me to see how I would manage to shape it and will the shape stay the way I wanted it. I worked from the inside and outside of the vessel to shape it nicely. Because of the four layers of wool the vessel is strong enough to keep it's shape, as you can see in the photo below!  

The vessel in progress, just after cutting out the opening. 
You can see the black template.







The finished and shaped vessel, still damp