Needle-felting with Mandy & Helen at the Loft Gallery
As part of this year's exhibition Mandy & Helen held two back-to-back short workshops introducing the needle felting technique.
This was an open workshop with interested individuals joining in to needle some small cacti. Following a safety brief attendees were able to choose from a selection of coloured batts. With guidance from Mandy & Helen attendees were shown how to creating basic shapes and add spikes and flowers. These were then felted into 'soil' and placed in a tiny pot. As you can see from the photographs below, prickly pears, mamillaria, christmas cacti and columnar caerus were the order of the day.
Attendees appeared to enjoy the sessions with some lovely comments written in the Visitors' book. With lots of enthusiasm from the ladies there is little doubt Feltmakers North will be seeing some new members come September.
A big thanks to Mandy & Helen for their time and commitment in organising and delivering the sessions.
Don't forget there will be a wet felt workshop led by Gail on the 19th inst.
