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Creative Sparks runs from July 1 to July 22, 2024 Workshop Fee: $195.00 USD Register HERE! Materials List Creative Sparks is a three week long felting exploration diving into colour, contrasts, lines, patterns and forms in a very friendly, fun and accessible way! If you've taken

This is a really special project. Made for a very dear friend for her 50th birthday. The inner layer of felt holds 50 pockets. One for each year....Some of the pockets hold little tokens that reflect an

One of my big summer projects is an outdoor felt installation created for the juried exhibition LandArt @ ArtCraft. I have been fascinated with Land Art for many years and allowed the whisperings of a

My classmates' beautiful... ...and very different... ...vessels... ...and my own... ...with markings and color gradations... ...tempered by the felting process. Next time: food and wine!

The finished

For the surface design class at Felter's Rendezvous... ...our studio was spacious and well-lit... ...with loads of yummy supplies on hand. The absolute highlight of the workshop for me, though... ...was finally getting to meet my long-time blog friend, Fiona!! :) Her expert teaching style and friendly personality... ...enabled each student to fully express herself in shape and color. Using a combination of exciting techniques... ...we fashioned felt 'samplers' during this intensive 2-day…

The women in my class didn't shy away from hard work. On the contrary, most of them made enormous bags! As in our surface design class... ...each student was given the techniques and tips... ...that would enable her to realize... ...the purse of her dreams! I love how each bag is so different! The student's choice of shape, color... ...and design... ...resulting in something unique and special! We had several very new feltmakers in our class... ...yet under Fiona's expert tutelage, their…

It is a bright, new, shiny year...and it is going to be fabulous! So far every day has been filled with excitement, momentum and pure pleasure! And lots of work...but in the best possible way. I

I created the Vessel within a Vessel tutorial a few years ago as a little tangent project for students in the Surface Design Online class at that time. It's a fun and unique project, that covers several skills, and doesn't take much space or materials to make! It takes a bit of thinking about

Textures Exploring and creating new textures has always been a foundation to my work. I see them as the language created in felt. Each texture is used to add meaning and narrative. This makes the process of the making very rich and fulfilling. Most often I share the meanings behind these tactile