Felt, Stitch, Texture - Workshop with Sheila Smith - March 20th

Sheila’s talk may have been cancelled as a result of the bad weather, but we are pleased that she will still be visiting us in March to give a workshop on felt making. For those of you not familiar with Sheila’s work, she is a very experienced felt designer and teacher from North Yorkshire who has written several exciting books on felt making.

Sheila’s approach to felt making is really innovative and this will be a great opportunity to learn some of the techniques in her most recent book “Felt to stitch: creative felting for textile artists”, which will be covered in the workshop:

Felt, Stitch, Texture

The workshop takes a contemporary approach to felt making aiming to produce interesting surface textures by combining non-felting fibres such as silk and linen with the wool, during the felting process. In addition simple Shibori techniques will introduce three dimensional shapes to be further enhanced by stitch.

This multi-media approach is great fun and provides plenty of scope for originality.

The workshop will cost £25 for members and £29 for visitors, not including materials which will be available to purchase from Sheila on the day. As usual, bring your own lunch; tea and coffee provided. As we won’t now be meeting until February, you can email Karen at this address to book a place:
parboldeg-feltworkshop@yahoo.co.uk (temporary email address).

Thanks to Sheila for kindly providing the above images of her work and allowing us to publish them here. You can see more of her work on her website, www.feltbydesign.co.uk

Sheila’s talk is also being rearranged and we now hope to welcome her in the Autumn to speak about "The contemporary felt scene”.