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WORKSHOPS Wet Felt making
Saturdays and Sundays 10.30-1pm and 2-4.30pm £40 Please provide a few options of dates you would like to do a workshop on the booking form ! I will then email you with availability. OR BOOK DIRECTLY HERE Felt a picture experience! Felt a beautiful picture of an image of your choice in this relaxing workshop. Choose your land or seascape and interpret it using beautiful colours of merino wool. There are plenty of images and books to refer to. Working at Ursula’s cosy and welcoming shop in the heart of Warwick, you can enjoy just relaxing for a few hours and getting creative as Ursula guides you through the felt making process. Ursula is a felt artist and art teacher and has been making felt for over 24 years. Felt is so marvellous to work with and can be embellished with hand or machine embroidery, and needle felted details. Lay down the wool fibres and create your image, and then felt it using soap and hot water. A lovely workshop to create a beautiful piece of felt to help you unwind and relax! Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Other workshops in felt making are available, please contact me ! Children are welcome- please do contact me for prices. I do workshops on request, especially if you have a group or an occasion that you want to do something special and different for! I regularly post updates of my work on my Facebook, & Instagram pages. Photos cuttings and sketchbooks are all excellent reference material to bring with you when you come to a felt making workshop. Make a beautiful 3D felted Flower Saturdays or Sundays 10.30-1pm and 2-4.30pm £45 per person again please enquire on the booking form In this workshop you will learn how to create a beautiful 3D flower using the resist method of felt making. Using soft Merino wool in gorgeous colours, you'll create a stunning piece of art to take home. Working with an experienced felt maker with over 20 years’ experience, you're in good hands to explore this therapeutic craft.
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POTTERY !
Thursday is the day to come and do pottery at Create. Gill will guide and teach you skills in making, using tools and building using proper clay, which will then be fired, and painted with slips and glazed. Come and relax in a small group, work with clay and enjoy this hugely rewarding class. For enquiries please add your details on the submission form. |
WORKSHOP VENUE FOR HIRE
Create is a venue that you can use for your own art or craft workshop. Arts and crafts teachers- please let me know what you can teach and your experience. I’m looking for interesting and unusual workshop ideas. Good rate for hiring the space. You must have public liability Insurance. Contact me above for more details!
HOW TO MAKE FELT
If you have bought one of my felt kits here are the instructions! Please email me and I'll send you the instuctions.
If you have bought one of my felt kits here are the instructions! Please email me and I'll send you the instuctions.
Christmas feltmaking
These are the results from my felt making workshop at Charlecote Park - National Trust, some years ago.
Felted Spooky Scene' Workshop at Ryton Pools Country Park
Some fantastic felt was made at half term- proving that Hallowe'en provides masses of inspiration for rich colours, and images depicting cool spooky scenes! Well done to those that made all these beautiful creations, felt making is fun and educational too!
These are the results from my felt making workshop at Charlecote Park - National Trust, some years ago.
Felted Spooky Scene' Workshop at Ryton Pools Country Park
Some fantastic felt was made at half term- proving that Hallowe'en provides masses of inspiration for rich colours, and images depicting cool spooky scenes! Well done to those that made all these beautiful creations, felt making is fun and educational too!
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'Spooky Scenes' Hallowe'en at Charlecote Park
Absoloutely beautiful designs today at Charlecote - such intense colours- I love the purple with the orange ! Well done everyone, I had a fab afternoon helping you create your excellent felt! More pictures over on my Facebook page. |
'' I would love to do it again !''
''It's amazing what you can do with a pile of wool!'' This is some of the feedback I have had from people on my workshops who have really enjoyed felt making ! |
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Felt Parties !!
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Pippa's felt making party
A great time was had by all at a felt making party. It was Pippa's birthday party with an animal theme. She was very excited and loved choosing the colours for her felt picture of her hamster in it's red hamster ball ! Her brother did Hedwig, which I think is fabulous! Other designs were lovely too, dolphin, unicorn, cat and rabbit. It was such a lovely creative afternoon. Contact me if you would like a party for any occasion or age.
A great time was had by all at a felt making party. It was Pippa's birthday party with an animal theme. She was very excited and loved choosing the colours for her felt picture of her hamster in it's red hamster ball ! Her brother did Hedwig, which I think is fabulous! Other designs were lovely too, dolphin, unicorn, cat and rabbit. It was such a lovely creative afternoon. Contact me if you would like a party for any occasion or age.
Summer fun felt making workshops
It was lovely to meet so many keen people and make some beautiful designs during the Summer, at 'Art in The Park' in Leamington, and at Charlecote Park, Stratford. I really enjoyed seeing the creativity flow and it is always so joyful seeing how people get into their felt 'zone!'
What is lovely with teaching workshops is chatting to people and when finding out if they have stressful jobs or no time for being creative, and how the time spent working on a piece of felt is beneficial to them, helping them to relax and focus on something. This could be as simple as forming the design element to their piece, or which colours to choose. All these workshops get me out and about, talking to people, hearing their stories and for that I am so grateful. It feels like in a way we help each other as we have time to have fun reflect or just enjoy the process.
Look at the pictures below and here on my Facebook page to see examples of felt work made on my workshops. Please do like my Facebook page as well if you are interested in all things felt.
Please do share and tell your friends. Felt making is such a lovely craft to do. It's so versatile, its really quite simple and its fun ! It is for everyone and all ages. I do parties too, for all ages, I am a mobile felter! I also do school workshops, craft groups, talks, and so on. Do get in touch if you have any questions and I'll see what I can do for you.
Thanks, I hope to see you at one of my future fun felt workshops!
Ursula
Fun felt making in all weathers at Art in The Park making felted flower brooches. You make them upside down, and it's quite tricky but everyone managed to persevere and got some excellent results!
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Festival felt making at Lunar Festival The Lunar festival in Tamworth in Arden, Warwickshire is a lovely small festival with a family vibe. I was there felt making and I met some lovely people who just wanted to get right into that creative zone! They made some gorgeous designs in felt and loved having a piece of artwork to be able to take home as a souvenir of an inspiring weekend. We had wonderful weather and little breeze to stir the woolly tops so it was superb felt making conditions !! Look at the gorgeous felts these lovely mummies made with their daughters at my workshops, at Ryton Pools (below) and the Lunar Festival. (right). Just the ticket for a bit of bonding and an hour or two of harmonious creative time together ! |
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Lunar Festival felt making !
I had an amazing time teaching lots of lovely people of all ages, everyone was in the right mood to have a go at making a felted festival souvenir. It was easy to be inspired and in the beautiful countryside. See the results of last year's felt fun below.
I had an amazing time teaching lots of lovely people of all ages, everyone was in the right mood to have a go at making a felted festival souvenir. It was easy to be inspired and in the beautiful countryside. See the results of last year's felt fun below.
Felt making is great fun for everyone whatever the age. You don't even have to be creative, just enjoy the time out to relax, learn a new skill and enjoy the active process of making the felt.
If you want to explore the artistic side of drawing with the wool, there is so much scope for creativity and detail. Felt making has become so popular in recent years. I teach and pass on my skills to individuals, friends groups, WI groups, arts and craft groups, Brownies, children's parties, hen parties, team building sessions, those who want to learn a new technique, or just want to do something different! I do workshops outside in the sunshine, which is just lovely.
The history of felt making is fascinating, there is so much to learn. The method of scrubbing, rolling and wringing the wool and really going through that physical process is very therapeutic.
If you want to explore the artistic side of drawing with the wool, there is so much scope for creativity and detail. Felt making has become so popular in recent years. I teach and pass on my skills to individuals, friends groups, WI groups, arts and craft groups, Brownies, children's parties, hen parties, team building sessions, those who want to learn a new technique, or just want to do something different! I do workshops outside in the sunshine, which is just lovely.
The history of felt making is fascinating, there is so much to learn. The method of scrubbing, rolling and wringing the wool and really going through that physical process is very therapeutic.
The workshops are great fun and educational too. I can show those of you who have made felt before and would just like to learn some more advanced techniques. The workshops are designed loosely so there is room for scope within what you will actually make. If there is something particular about felt making you would like to learn, please do get in touch. It might be that I can incorporate it into a workshop, or plan an advanced one for the future.
Nuno felted scarves
Learn how to make a beautiful Nuno scarf, adding wool fibres to a piece of silk. Create a wonderfully soft wearable creation using beautiful colours of Merino wool. Your silk scarf will be totally unique and require no sewing at all ! A wonderful present for a friend or yourself !
Learn how to make a beautiful Nuno scarf, adding wool fibres to a piece of silk. Create a wonderfully soft wearable creation using beautiful colours of Merino wool. Your silk scarf will be totally unique and require no sewing at all ! A wonderful present for a friend or yourself !
3D Felted vessels and bowls
Come and learn how to make a sculptural
felted bowl or vessel, using the wet felting technique
which will provide a wonderful centrepiece for your table.