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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.