Felt-making (wet felting) courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

You may also be interested in: Appliqué | Crochet | Fashion and accessories | Hand embroidery | Indigo dyeing and shibori | Soap making | Soft furnishings (cushions, blinds and curtains) | Spinning, weaving and dyeing | Textile art | Wool sculpture | Wreath making

Felt making courses, kits, live classes & online workshops from UK makers and 'wet' felt artists. Felt, uniquely, is a cloth that is not woven and felt making techniques open up a world of abstract creative opportunity in the way of felt slippers, hats, clothes and beautiful felted pictures. Learn the processes of bonding wool fibres together with water and soap or even work in other exotic fibres to form a new and unique textured fabric. Then stitch, frame, embellish and more!

view as

Felted pebbles with Purr & Wag It, Tabletop Workshops

Felted pebbles with Purr & Wag It, Tabletop Workshops

Online on-demand course

If you are planning on making the pebbles on a specific day please remember I need to post the kit to you. If you are purchasing more than one kit to the same address please contact me first so I can change the postage accordingly. Felted wool pebbles make for beautiful natural decor around your home. Be inspired by Jim Ede's pebble displays at Kettles Yard and land artists Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long. Display your pebbles in a bowl or thread them onto a linen string to create a...

If you are planning on making the pebbles on a specific day please remember I need to post the kit to you. If you are purchasing more than one kit...

wet felted vessels - seam free! With Purr & Wag It, Tabletop Workshops

wet felted vessels - seam free! With Purr & Wag It, Tabletop Workshops

Online on-demand course

The little vessel you create with this felting experience is more than just decorative. It makes for a good loose change pot, key holder, plant pot or somewhere to pop your everyday jewellery at night. If you're planning on making your vessel(s) on a particular day please remember I need to post the kits to you. If you are purchasing more than one kit please contact me first so I can change the postage accordingly. Schools and Community Groups priced separately, please contact me. With the contents of the kit...

The little vessel you create with this felting experience is more than just decorative. It makes for a good loose change pot, key holder, plant pot or somewhere to pop...

Feltmaking ..Ohh Choices! Nuno Scarf, Wall-Art or Upholstered Footstool.

Feltmaking ..Ohh Choices! Nuno Scarf, Wall-Art or Upholstered Footstool.

In-person course

Staffordshire - Next course on 11th July 2021

Face to face classes: This full day course offers a few options incase you have a friend or family member who would like to make an alternative item to you. Nuno scarf, warm woolly scarf, footstool or large picture (or 2 medium pictures). All safety procedures followed. All materials are Included in you day. Scarf making- You will be using soft merino wool fibres and a silk mixed scarf which will be unique to you. Alternatively you could create a warm woolly scarf. There are a variety of base scarves...

Face to face classes: This full day course offers a few options incase you have a friend or family member who would like to make an alternative item to you....

Inspirational course covering wet felting and Nuno techniques in the beautiful Forest of Dean

Inspirational course covering wet felting and Nuno techniques in the beautiful Forest of Dean

In-person course

Gloucestershire - Next course on 23rd June 2021

Experimental felt-making day-course covering basic flat felt and Nuno techniques: Designing and making images and patterns, pre-felts, layering and all you need to get started as a felt maker! You will be shown how to design your own pattern or picture from an image or source of your own choice (don't worry if you haven't got any ideas, I've got lots of books and samples to inspire you) for either a wall hanging, cushion, scarf, or piece of fabric to be later made into something such as a bag or...

Experimental felt-making day-course covering basic flat felt and Nuno techniques: Designing and making images and patterns, pre-felts, layering and all you need to get started as a felt maker! You...

Crafts in the Valley - Felted Pictures Workshop in Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

Crafts in the Valley - Felted Pictures Workshop in Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

In-person course

West Yorkshire - Next course on 14th July 2021

Felting and free motion machine embroidery workshops. Learn how to create watercolours in wool! Crafts in the Valley offers textile and fused glass workshops at the Creative Chameleon Studio in Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire. Full day workshops start at 10.30am and finishing at approximately 4.00pm. In this full day workshop you will have the opportunity to experiment with a range of textiles skills including wet felting, needle felting, hand embroidery and free motion machine embroidery. By the end of the day you will have created a beautiful piece...

Felting and free motion machine embroidery workshops. Learn how to create watercolours in wool! Crafts in the Valley offers textile and fused glass workshops at the Creative Chameleon Studio in...

Felt Pictures-Painting with fibres - intro to 2D wet felting/felt making inspired by your own image with Purr & Wag It, Tabletop Workshops

Felt Pictures-Painting with fibres - intro to 2D wet felting/felt making inspired by your own image with Purr & Wag It, Tabletop Workshops

In-person course

London - Next course on 19th September 2021

Where a workshop is full or fixed dates don't suit - gather together a group of 2-4 and get in touch for a flexible date and time just for you. If you are a school or community group please contact me as workshops and inset days are priced separately. You will be guided through how to lay out the fibres to make a flat piece of felt as well as using carders to blend colours. Then using the reference material you have brought with you, learn how to create a...

Where a workshop is full or fixed dates don't suit - gather together a group of 2-4 and get in touch for a flexible date and time just for you....

Fun with Felt Flowers

Fun with Felt Flowers

In-person course

Surrey - Next course on 23rd June 2021

We were sort of back on track and I was teaching one to one or small groups of friends - sorry I cannot at this stage agree to teach anyone face to face but I hope that by spring the strings will be loosened somewhat. Meanwhile, see below for Workshop in a Wallet listings - or book now and we'll sort out a date as soon as we are allowed to. Fun with felt flowers gives beginners all the basic information to learn felting around a resist. In the three...

We were sort of back on track and I was teaching one to one or small groups of friends - sorry I cannot at this stage agree to teach anyone...

A complete introduction to wet felting

A complete introduction to wet felting

In-person course

Greater London - Next course on 23rd June 2021

In this course you will be introduced to the art of wet felting and variety of its application in making clothes and accessories. Samples are available for demonstration. Each class may accommodate a maximum of 6 people. You will learn about types of wool, fleece, fibres, fabrics and other materials which can be used for making felt and its decoration. You will also get practice in the technique of laying out wool. By the end of the course everyone will make own sample of felt with practical use! Please bring...

In this course you will be introduced to the art of wet felting and variety of its application in making clothes and accessories. Samples are available for demonstration. Each class...

Wet-felting workshop with Fabulous Feltings

Wet-felting workshop with Fabulous Feltings

In-person course

Carmarthenshire - Next course on 23rd June 2021

Full day (10.00-17.00) wet-felting workshop in my riverside cottage studio. Price is per person but there must be 2 attendees for the course to go ahead. You will learn 3 types of wet-felting: - Basic wet-felting - making a fabric from wool fibres by using moisture and heat, without the use of stitching, sticking or sewing. - Nuno felting - combining an open weave fabric plus wool fibres to create a light-weight felt. - Cobweb felting - creating a thin and delicate felt with a 'cobwebby' appearance. At the end...

Full day (10.00-17.00) wet-felting workshop in my riverside cottage studio. Price is per person but there must be 2 attendees for the course to go ahead. You will learn 3...

Craft Retreat at Wild Rose Escapes, Highlands, Scotland

Craft Retreat at Wild Rose Escapes, Highlands, Scotland

In-person course

Highlands - Next course on 4th September 2021

Come and join us for a week of traditional craft, gentle walks and optional morning yoga - a truly relaxing week for creative people who would like a bit of the outdoors. Over the week participants can have a go at natural dyeing outdoors in the woods. Foraging for dye plants, making botanical dyes from what they have foraged and learning about ancient imported dyes. Guests will dye local fleece as well as fleece from our own small flock of Shetland sheep. After a day of natural dyeing, we will...

Come and join us for a week of traditional craft, gentle walks and optional morning yoga - a truly relaxing week for creative people who would like a bit of...

Showing {{ coursesLoaded }} of {{ coursesTotal }}

Loading