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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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