Wool painting and felted pictures courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

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...

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...

"Field with red poppies" wool painting interactive online course with live tuition. (Suitable for Complete Beginners ) Wool painting or wool watercolour, as some people call it, is a unique relatively new technique which originated in St. Petersburg. This is not felt making. It is about creating a fibre picture using merino wool, silk and viscose. Laying and shaping fibres, blending the colours together, creating beautiful textures and effects with a professional Artist Raya Brown is a great experience for complete beginners as well as people with some knowledge of...

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...

A full day workshop with fibre and mixed media artist and tutor Josephine Gornall. Discover how to make a gorgeous little needle felted dog or cat of any breed or type using just a felting needle to felt natural wool fibres together. Discover how to put these all together, do body shaping and make ears to bring your mini pet to life. How to blend colours, make textures and features to create the unique character of your dog or cat. Complete by adding glass eyes and a nose. Bring along...

We now open from 12 April. I have put some available dates in but please select 'chat with the maker' to check with me first to see if they are still available (life has a habit of getting in the way!). Our needle-felting workshops usually start at 10.00 am with an introduction to the tools and methods used in producing the pictures. This is followed by working on a miniature moorland picture using Merino wool fleece. We then usually have a break for coffee and danish and then continue with...

This is an enjoyable wool painting taster course for anyone! You will learn a unique relatively new technique of painting with wool or ‘wool watercolour’ as some people call it and explore natural fibres. It is a perfect way to relax at home. Using a great new format of learning in the virtual classroom environment via Zoom, you will have plenty of interaction with your tutor Raya Brown and like-minded students, receive individual help, show your work to the tutor as well as watch great quality live Art demonstrations. This...

Face to face classes: (on-line by request) I am so excited to be starting to teach again and have all of the necessary proceedures in place and am teaching small groups. A flexible day of different techniques to suit you: Choose one. Seamless Bag, Cosy Toes Slippers or a Large Picture (or 2 medium pics) *All materials are Included. All techniques- You will be using soft merino wool fibres and a silky mixed fibres and more so as your work is unique to you. Bags or slippers use the same...

A fun workshop with fibre and mixed media artist and tutor Josephine Gornall. Experiment and explore felt-making with a variety of different techniques to make a felt picture. Lots of samples to look at in my studio where the class is based, followed by a practical demonstration of felt-making, then make one or two textural pictorial - seascape, landscape, floral or abstract felted peices. Select from a wide choice of gorgeous coloured wools, plant fibres, yarns and fabrics. Explore mixing colours and using different types of fibres together. Embed wool,...