A little felting morning ...

It has been almost a decade since I took my first felting course & it unlocked a new world of interesting creative times. 

Since then I have felted several projects & it is something that is immediate & enjoyable. I did a series of sunflowers in blue & yellow in regard to the Ukrainian crisis. 

My cousin & I also felted a heather landscape together last year because it was new  to her & she did very well. 

This week, our local haberdashery shop had a felting workshop & I made time to attend. 

We do need to hone our skills regularly; as a life long educator, I love courses & learning off others too. 

I was the only one out of the 6 of us who had previously done any felting but with Lou's excellent guidance, all were soon jabbing away at the little project, inspired by her example. 

We had all opted to have the additional kit, so we all started with exactly the same selection of felt colours & threads to use for embroidery embellishment. 

One of the ladies suggested adding in a sheep & so sheep were added to the little countryside scene. 

My mind went blank & even though I had felted sheep previously, mine were not good & they will be sorted at home. Felt is very forgiving & you can remove it by pulling on it or, as I did, felt over to change the shape. 

That is what I love about felting - it is forgiving.  

I am confident in a variety of embroidery stitches & everyone helped each other out with a quick refresh so it passed in no time. 

Lou had little frames to show off our work. The little frame is useful to have it out in the craft space at home. It was an enjoyable time with like minded people & we all had something that was complete or almost complete.

We all encouraged Lou to do another felting day.  

It is more fun to do as a group activity too because working together is great for creativity & to be able to bounce ideas off each other.  

I had to sort out my sheep at home so they look more like sheep than sheep dogs.  

This is a previous one I did & so I had to do some remedial work on mine. 

However it was great fun to do something with some guidance & a different approach - that is always useful. 

While sorting out my sheep at home, I decided to add a few beads to the fly stitched field. I love the way they just catch the light & the fly stitches look like a field of flowers. 

Does anyone else find it really tricky to thread the beading needles with the tiny eye? Any technique suggestions will be welcome. 

Who else loves courses as much as I do? Always lovely to have you stop by the blog, 

Dee 🪡📍🧵🐏🐑