Christine Waygood. Contemporary Textiles.

Discover how to make a pair of cosy felt slippers which mould to your feet, and are wonderfully comfortable. Learn how to make the template which you will use as the former, then how to adapt it and decorate it to suit your own design, and how to build up layers of wool to felt into a seamless pair of slippers, ready to decorate . Due to Covid restrictions this course is now one to one, or for two people from the same household.

Come and make your own beautiful felt hat. Whether you dream of dreadlocks, your own festival hat, beret, or any other shape, you can come along and have a go at creating it. You will be shown how to design your own hat, working from a basic template, which you can then personalise by adding flaps, flowers, tassels, bobbles or any other decoration you can think of! Due to Covid, this course is now one to one, or for two people from the same household.

This course explores a variety of methods to make different shapes and sizes of containers, either for Bags, or vessels. Using resist patterns, we will be able to make a variety of different shapes, which can be used for many purposes. By adding straps for a bag, or hardened to create a vessel, or decorated to create a Green Man. Felt can be made into bags or vessels of almost any shape or colour. This is a one day course covering ideas for several different types of bags, or vessels...

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...

This is a really fun course exploring ways of making soft toys jewellery or decorations, using both wet and dry methods of felt making. You will be shown a variety of ways of making birds, animals,and flowers to make toys, jewellery and decorations, and ways of sculpting and decorating them using needle felting. I will be covering a range of ideas and techniques for making a variety of items . Have fun creating your own soft toy, jewellery ,or decorations using simple techniques, the choice is yours. Due to Covid,...

Learn to make your own beautiful felt bag on this one day course! Due to Covid, this course is now one to one, or for two people from the same household. You will be shown how different styles of bags are made. How to add handles, flaps or a pocket, and to design the pattern, then helped to make a bag to your own desig I have been making, and teaching felt making for many years now, and have developed this range of courses to cover basic felt making techniques,...