IMPROVING SKILLS WORKSHOP  

Saturday 13 January

'Great workshop. . . . Trainers well prepared and helpful. . . . . .Brilliant. . . . .Loved the opportunity to experiment'

Just some of the really positive comments from the girls who attended our workshop at the Village Centre.  It was great to see lots of new faces and some old hands revisiting their felting skills under the excellent tutelage of Ann McCullough and Jayne Burgess.

Norma concentrating

Pleasaunce experimenting

The girls were introduced to different sheep breeds and qualities of wool and were encouraged to try out the wools for themselves.   'Loved the opportunity to experiment with different breeds of wool and learning what each type of wool is best suited to'.   This comment sums up the earlier part of the workshop before moving on to spend a little time learning about incorporating wool with fine fabrics.

Samples of nuno felt

Jayne explained the process and demonstrated the various edges which could be achieved simply by laying the wool in different directions.

 When it came to making a vessel Ann had lots of samples to demonstrate shape and form and how different shades of wool can be used to create combinations of depth and hue.  She also included a couple of deliberate mistakes to highlight  the pitfalls of working with a resist and not concentrating!

Karen and Ann

Ann's samples

The time flew by and while the girls took home a lot of samples they also took home some homework!  We are looking forward to seeing lots of lovely vessels in the coming weeks as everyone finds time to complete their project!

'Very enjoyable and informative, Ann and Jayne extremely helpful. . . . trainers well prepared and helpful. . . . . could have done with extra time for last project. . . . .probably would have liked a little more time. . . really enjoyed learning new skills especially making of vessel. . . . great refresher course. . . ..it was great, packed so much in'.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the course for all your positive comments.  It's lovely to get such great feedback for the tutors and also for the committee and helps us plan for even better workshops.

Thanks to Ann and Jayne again and also to Tina for being a great helper and photographer!  Here are a few more shots of the day.

Don't forget this Saturday, 20 January is the first Felt-in of 2018 and Elaine will be telling us all about prefelts and how to use them.

We are beginning at 10.00am to give us lots of time for Show n Tell etc before the felting fun begins!!

Take care and happy felting from Gail  (standing in for Helen as she's off enjoying a big holiday!)