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Meet the Instructor:

Laura Ricks

Laura Ricks is from Lafayette, Indiana. She has been working with felting and fiber arts since 2017.

She particularly enjoys creating felted landscapes, which feature spectacular skies and clouds, beautiful natural scenery, and picture-perfect depth and perspective. She often draws inspiration from her rural Indiana surroundings and her travels, with the ability to turn photos into felted masterpieces.

She is a co-owner of Artists’ Own Cooperative Artist Gallery. You can follow Laura on Instagram @EmeraldHillTextiles

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About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting, Nuno Felting
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Wet Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Piece together a puzzle of various silks into a light and flowy collage scarf, and learn how to Patti’s methods for making fantastic elements that stand out in the sea of fabulous felt!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Included in this course

• Nuno Felt a bright and abstract scarf that showcases lustrous silk fabrics in a thoughtful collage with incredible features!
• Balance color and texture in the making of a beautiful multicolored collage, and plan a layout that uses your supplies wisely
• Look at a range of Collage Scarf color options that Patti has prepared, and get ideas for different design elements that you might choose to include on your scarf!
• Explore a realm of felting techniques that piece together in the collage scarf, but can also be used in other nuno felting projects!
• Find out which silk fabrics Patti likes to work with and piece them together within the Nuno Collage Scarf
• Learn which recycled or thrifted fabrics to include in nuno felting, and how to test to see if they will felt
• Discover what Patti calls “The Anatomy of a Scarf” and plan a scarf layout with wearing position and comfort in mind
• Create dazzling felted features like “Volcanoes” of hidden sparkle, open-weave wool grids, mosaic techniques, and incorporate shiny recycled fabrics that add a pop of intrigue into the collage.
• Add light and airy fringes to the edges and sides of your scarf for extra flowy fun!
• Consider how major design elements are spaced throughout the scarf, and plan ahead how these will look while worn on the body
• Felt the scarf by rolling, and discover all of Patti’s favorite wet felting tools
• Learn how to full the scarf, ensuring all the different types of silks are adhering
• Troubleshoot what to do when a piece of silk isn’t sticking
• How to finish the scarf, steam press, and shape to perfection!
• BONUS!
• * Patti provides instruction for an alternate method of Felting in the Dryer

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Meet the Instructor:

Felted Works by Patti Barker:

Patti Barker

Patti Barker is an award-winning felt wear designer who has been felting since 2008. Her passion lies in created felted ensembles for the stage, and telling a story with her unique wearable creations. She often incorporates themes highlighting female empowerment that evoke emotion and energy in her art. Patti is constantly experimenting with new felting techniques, with many of her designs resulting from asking herself “what happens if I try this?”

Having first discovered felting at a fiber arts retreat at an alpaca farm in the Northern Georgia Mountains, Patti immediately fell in love with the wide world of felting. With a background in weaving, macramé, and making paper jewelry, along with her parent’s creative careers, Patti has always had a creative eye. She returned to college and earned a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Studio Art from Western Washington University, and enjoys both learning new felting techniques, and sharing the joy of felting with her students. She enjoys taking on new challenges and pioneering new approaches to wearable felt-making that inspire and enhance narrative story-telling through her art.

Her work is on display at the MaJe Gallery in Edmonds, Washington, and in the Orchard Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her online gallery can be found at PattiBarker.com, or to follow her on social media, visit her Instagram @PattiBarkerFelt or her Facebook page.

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About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting, Nuno Felting
Difficulty Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Helpful Experience to Have: Nuno Felting Over a Resist
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 3-day in person workshop

Nuno felt a custom-fitting jacket that features beautiful silk embellishments, gorgeous textures, cuffed sleeves, a collared neckline, and one-of a-kind handmade design! No sewing required!

Skills you will Learn:

• How to nuno felt a stunning, well-fitted jacket that is perfectly sized!
• Follow Charity in taking your own measurements, and from them create a jacket pattern that accounts for shrinkage during the felting process, and results in a perfect fit!
• Create a felting resist using the jacket pattern, and learn how to factor in the overlap in the front of the jacket during layout and felting
• Learn how Charity is able to layout and felt this large jacket in segments, working with limited table space
• Discover how the direction of the wool layout impacts the shrinkage of the jacket, and use this to your advantage in planning for different jacket elements
• Combine wool fiber and silk fabric of beautiful colors that complement the jacket layout and create a cohesive look
• Get ideas for how to embellish this large garment that wrap around edges, create interest, and tell a beautiful felted story
• Consider how embellishments can effect the shrinkage of the jacket, and learn what to watch for while felting, rolling, and fulling to get the desired effects
• Explore a few jacket options that Charity has made in preparation, and get ideas on which elements, embellishments, and closures you would like to incorporate into your jacket.
• Get guidance on which silk fabrics are best to use in this project, both as a base for your nuno felting, and as embellishment and design layers on top of the wool.
• Discover Charity’s method for creating a reinforced, strong edge to your jacket’s edges.
• Add an optional collar to the jacket, and blend in the design seamlessly
• Learn how Charity uses a sander to speed up the felting process, and what other options you can use for felting.
• BONUS!
• * Create a closure for the Jacket!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Meet the Instructor:

Charity van der Meer

Charity van der Meer-Musoma was born in and grew up in Zambia. She is a fashion designer specialized in hand-made ecological garments, and graduated as a Fashion and Knitwear Designer from Nottingham Trent University of Art and Design (UK) in 2002. Charity moved to the Netherlands in the same year, where she continues to work in fashion and design independently.

“Felt has given me a chance to express myself beyond the conformity of the traditional felt making and dress making. There are endless possibilities and I am constantly researching new materials and new techniques. All material I use will tell their own story through my pieces.”

Today, Charity’s contemporary designs are inspired by nature itself. Her mission is to create unique, natural, sustainable and wearable garments and to share this with others around the world. To produce her collections, Charity uses new ideas and techniques that are inspired by nature and uses durable and ecological products.

Her label Sharit – which comes from “Share It” – embodies Charity’s passion for sharing her creativity and knowledge with others and to inspire them and stimulate their creative thoughts.

Charity travels all around the world teaching felt fashion and felt techniques. Her contact with so many cultures encourages her ideas and inspires her towards new creations. Her dream of sharing is her reality and this has led her to invest in this new online way of sharing her passion.

Course Outline

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Enroll Today!

About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting, Wet felt over a ball
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Wet Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Learn how to wet felt over a ball to create a fabulous felted bowl, vessel or container out of wool! Natasha Smart has created a great introductory course that will absolutely help you get started wet felting over a ball to create beautiful and purposeful items you will love to make, gift and sell.

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Skills you will Learn:

• How to wet felt over a 3-dimensional resist, using the “Little B” Felting Ball to create a felted bowl
• Choosing the appropriate wool fibers for success in felting a bowl
• How to mark up the Little B Felting Ball with guidelines for fiber layout
• Embellish the bowl using different types of wool yarns and shiny bamboo tops for beautiful designs and color combinations
• Apply layers of wool in different colors to achieve a split-color, embellished outside, and a solid color inside that folds down to form the rim of the bowl
• Wet felt the bowl on a ball using Natasha’s signature methods!
• Throw, Stretch, and Shape the bowl once it is off the ball to achieve straight sides, a flat base, and an even rim
• BONUS!
• * A look at alternate bowl examples
• *Living Felt 20th Birthday Fun from Natasha’s Demos

Meet the Instructor:

Natasha Smart

Natasha Smart is a full-time felting artist and educator who has been wet felting since 2005.  She specializes in the felting on a ball resist technique to create felted bags, baskets and bowls, which she regularly teaches on workshops at her studio in the seaside town of Exmouth, Devon on the UK south coast.  

Natasha loves experimenting with wet felting techniques and materials to develop new projects, which has led her to create several online courses and tutorials on wet felting.  She has also written over 25 magazine project articles covering felting and textile craft, including for the International Feltmakers Association (IFA) magazine Felt Matters in September 2022.  Her first book, Wet Felting, which covers all aspects of wet felting, from flat felting to working with both two and three-dimensional resists, was published in April 2022. Her second book, Three-dimensional Wet Felting, was published in May 2024 and focuses in depth on felting on a ball.  It covers all the techniques you need for successful results, along with a range of inspiring projects to create yourself.

Sharing the magic of wet felting has become a real passion for Natasha and she regularly shares videos and photos of her workshops and wet felted pieces on her social media accounts, where you can find more inspiration for your own creations.

Follow her online
@natashasmarttextiles

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Meet the Instructor: Helen Russell

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About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting and Needle Felting
Difficulty Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Wet Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 3-day in person workshop

Follow along with Helen on this felting forest hike, where you can choose to stay on the path with every rock, tree, leaf, and water ripple, or venture a little on your own – experimenting with color, light, and composition throughout this beautiful woodland landscape!

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Skills you will Learn:

• Combine Wet and Needle Felting in creating a stunning landscape scene that peeks through the woods into a rambling creek
• How light and shadow play in every step of the process, expertly creating depth and drawing the eye deeper into the wool “painting”
• Thoughtfully plan out the final image at every stage
• Lay down background fibers strategically to blend colors and depth
• Needle felt in major landmarks that will go on to be wet felted into the wool “underpainting”
• Create detailed design elements in the creek water and trees while the piece is still wet
• Discover Helen’s methods, diagrams, and photos for referencing the landmark elements in this scene, and how to transfer them to your piece, while considering shrinkage.
• Step along each stone along the creek, paying attention to how light hits them on each side of the scene.
• Layer the scene by detailing the major foreground trees, adding hanging vines coming from above, and a twiggy bush planted in a bed of rocks.
• Fill the creekside with fallen autumn leaves nestled in the rocks, with Helen’s techniques to create a brilliant color variety with ease!
  BONUS!
• How to mat and frame your felt art for a final touch!
• Interview with Helen Russell!

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

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About this Course

Create a Coordinating Cowl with Brilliant Colors and a Beautiful Brimmed and Pleated Nuno Felt Hat! Explore different fibers and methods for felting on a ball in this two-project course!

Skills Focus: Nuno Felting on a Ball
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Wet Felting Over a Resist
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Skills you will Learn:

• How to nuno felt two completely different projects using Natasha’s signature method of felting on a ball!
• Discover two methods of felting over a ball using different types of fiber for each project
• Explore the fibers and embellishments that will felt together perfectly to create layered colors and textures
• How to mark up the felting ball for easy reference
• Nuno felt a reversible cowl with two strikingly beautiful and complementary sides
• Nuno felt a gorgeous pleated hat with a brim on a ball, and tips for how to coordinate the hat and cowl colors!
• Which silk to use for a lightweight, airy cowl with beautiful sheen
• How to use simple resist layers when felting on a ball
• Guidance for measuring your head, hat, and shrinkage, as well as adjusting for different sizes
• How to create the brim and shape pleats into the hat
• Blocking methods to make the hat perfectly fit your head
• Finishing tips to give your hat and cowl the perfect final touches!
  
  BONUS!
• A few color and material variation ideas for the Hat and Cowl

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Natasha Smart

Natasha Smart is a full-time felting artist and educator who has been wet felting since 2005.  She specializes in the felting on a ball resist technique to create felted bags, baskets and bowls, which she regularly teaches on workshops at her studio in the seaside town of Exmouth, Devon on the UK south coast.  

Natasha loves experimenting with wet felting techniques and materials to develop new projects, which has led her to create several online courses and tutorials on wet felting.  She has also written over 25 magazine project articles covering felting and textile craft, including for the International Feltmakers Association (IFA) magazine Felt Matters in September 2022.  Her first book, Wet Felting, which covers all aspects of wet felting, from flat felting to working with both two and three-dimensional resists, was published in April 2022. Her second book, Three-dimensional Wet Felting, was published in May 2024 and focuses in depth on felting on a ball.  It covers all the techniques you need for successful results, along with a range of inspiring projects to create yourself.

Sharing the magic of wet felting has become a real passion for Natasha and she regularly shares videos and photos of her workshops and wet felted pieces on her social media accounts, where you can find more inspiration for your own creations.

Follow her online @natashasmarttextiles

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About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Wet Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 1-day in person workshop

Wet felt a double-wrapped lariat necklace adorned with beaded double-layer poppy flowers, along with leaves and flower pods for interest!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Skills you will Learn:

• How to quickly create a strong cordage that will be the necklace base
• Wet felt double-layered poppies with brilliant colors and fantastic shape
• Create a piece of simple, yet striking piece of prefelt to use for making poppy leaves
• Make cute little poppy pods as adornments and as a way to secure the lariat wrap
• Prefelt each of the elements and customize the layout and number of leaves, poppies, and flower pods in your lariat necklace
• Consider how your lariat will be worn, and where to place the decorative elements to suit your planned layout
• Join Dawn in each stage of wet felting: rubbing, rolling, and fulling, and discover her methods for making good felt
• Finish the poppy flowers by trimming and shaping them, and finally add a center of black beads to the poppies.

Included in this course:

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Meet the Instructor:

Dawn Edwards

Dawn Edwards is a felt artist and tutor based in Plainwell, Michigan USA. She sells her work under the label ‘Felt So Right’ and teaches extensively within the USA and internationally. Her felt art has appeared in numerous exhibitions, shows, magazines and books. Dawn also is the co-coordinator of the not-for-profit group, ‘Felt United’, which currently has over 7,000 members.

Dawn’s love of color, texture, and beauty in everyday life, have led to artistic expression through many creative endeavors including stained glass and pottery, and finally to a medium where she is able to incorporate many of those techniques into her felt-making. You may see some of the wonderful textural and sculptural images found in pottery, or the beautiful color ways noted in stained glass. Most recently, Dawn’s ‘Blue Coral’ felt hat was was chosen to appear in the 2019 ‘Felt Fiber Transformed’ issue of Fiber Art Now magazine.

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About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting a Sample over a Resist
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Wet Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 1-day in person workshop

Discover how to make a felt sample in a unique way! Tips, techniques, and TWO tutorials on wet felting a small vessel over a resist!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English
Closed Captions: English

Skills you will Learn:

• Felt along with two tutorials for wet felting a sample vessel over a resist
• Compare different fiber samples in vessel form with an overview of example vessels
• Consider wool and embellishment fibers and how they will effect the overall design of the vessel
• Learn how to felt a vessel “inside-out”
• Learn how to include a resist template to achieve the “Cracked Mud” effect, and how to layer fibers effectively to highlight this feature.
• Explore different ways to cut open a vessel, which can completely change the look of the finished product
  
• BONUS!
• * Cracked Mud Resist Template

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Course Outline

Enroll Today!

About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting, Nuno Felting
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Wet Felting over a Resist
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Explore textures, embellishment techniques, and how to use wool and silk fibers effectively to easily create a one-of-a-kind fitted skirt that is sure to impress!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English
Closed Captions: English, Deutsch, Español, Español (México), Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Português (Brasil), Magyar, Pусский, اللغة العربية, हिन्दी, 中文, 日本, 한국인, বাংলা

Skills you will Learn:

• Obtain the proper measurements that guide in the making of a skirt pattern and enlarged resist template
• Select wool and silk fibers that will add textural variety and visual interest
• Quickly layout the fibers to make a reversible skirt with the ease of using prefelt as a wool base
• Incorporate appropriate silk fabrics as a base for the skirt
• Apply silk fabrics as a decorative design layer
• Use prefelt as inclusions that give a raised relief look
• Create prefelt ruffles that run the length of the skirt
• Make pleats from silk that give that skirt visual interest
• Make wool yarns to incorporate as embellishments
• Use layering, silk, and prefelt to give the dress a light, flowy bottom portion of the skirt
• Simply and effectively wet felt a large garment with the help of a sander
• Apply finishing details and shaping to ensure a perfectly fitting skirt

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Charity van der Meer

Charity van der Meer-Musoma was born in and grew up in Zambia. She is a fashion designer specialized in hand-made ecological garments, and graduated as a Fashion and Knitwear Designer from Nottingham Trent University of Art and Design (UK) in 2002. Charity moved to the Netherlands in the same year, where she continues to work in fashion and design independently.

“Felt has given me a chance to express myself beyond the conformity of the traditional felt making and dress making. There are endless possibilities and I am constantly researching new materials and new techniques. All material I use will tell their own story through my pieces.”

Today, Charity’s contemporary designs are inspired by nature itself. Her mission is to create unique, natural, sustainable and wearable garments and to share this with others around the world. To produce her collections, Charity uses new ideas and techniques that are inspired by nature and uses durable and ecological products.

Her label Sharit – which comes from “Share It” – embodies Charity’s passion for sharing her creativity and knowledge with others and to inspire them and stimulate their creative thoughts.

Charity travels all around the world teaching felt fashion and felt techniques. Her contact with so many cultures encourages her ideas and inspires her towards new creations. Her dream of sharing is her reality and this has led her to invest in this new online way of sharing her passion.
Follow Charity @felt_hautecouture._

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About this Course

Skills Focus: Wet Felting over a Ball Resist
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Wet Felting over a Resist
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 3-day in person workshop

Wet felt a durable and beautifully embellished backpack using Natasha’s expert wet felting over a ball method!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English
Closed Captions: English, Deutsch, Español, Español (México), Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Português (Brasil), Magyar, Pусский, اللغة العربية, हिन्दी, 中文, 日本, 한국인, বাংলা

Skills you will Learn:

• Prepare your fibers in a way that makes the layout process simple, fast, and fun
• Use a felting bertha ball as a resist, and effectively build up a seamless backpack structure from inside-out
• Embellish the backpack with simple, yet effective fibers and methods that add interest as a continuous outer design
• Incorporate a front outside pocket, and a deep interior pocket
• Embed backpack hardware into the wool layout to create durable attachment points
• Create and perfectly position a flap to cover and close the backpack opening
• Discover Natasha’s time-tested methods and materials for felting with a ball resist
• Felt and attach a strong strap that allows the backpack to instantly convert into a purse or cross-body bag
• Incorporate a turn-lock style clasp to close the backpack flap, and look at other possible closure options
• BONUS!
  * A fun vocabulary lesson on the British terms Natasha shares throughout the course

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

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Meet the Instructor:

Natasha Smart

Natasha Smart is a full-time felting artist and educator who has been wet felting since 2005.  She specializes in the felting on a ball resist technique to create felted bags, baskets and bowls, which she regularly teaches on workshops at her studio in the seaside town of Exmouth, Devon on the UK south coast.  

Natasha loves experimenting with wet felting techniques and materials to develop new projects, which has led her to create several online courses and tutorials on wet felting.  She has also written over 25 magazine project articles covering felting and textile craft, including for the International Feltmakers Association (IFA) magazine Felt Matters in September 2022.  Her first book, Wet Felting, which covers all aspects of wet felting, from flat felting to working with both two and three-dimensional resists, was published in April 2022. Her second book, Three-dimensional Wet Felting, was published in May 2024 and focuses in depth on felting on a ball.  It covers all the techniques you need for successful results, along with a range of inspiring projects to create yourself.

Sharing the magic of wet felting has become a real passion for Natasha and she regularly shares videos and photos of her workshops and wet felted pieces on her social media accounts, where you can find more inspiration for your own creations.

Follow Natasha online @natashasmarttextiles.com