Course Description

You will begin the day by making a small piece of flat felt using luxury merino and silk prefelt as a base. You may then add surface decoration as you prefer. While the felt is drying you will learn how to make fun and funky necklaces using up any scraps of felt and fabrics combined with odd buttons and beads. This is a great way to use up your stash! After lunch, when the felt is dry, you will learn how to turn your unique pieces of felt into flat beads for create necklaces. Once learned, this is a technique which can be used with any thin fabric and is a great way to use up short lengths of fabric or recycle well loved garments into wearable art.

Requirements List

• Small container or washing up bowl, large enough to get your hand in
• 2 old towels– and plastic bag or a bowl to take them home in. Block of soap or bottle of washing up liquid, any make will do
• Notebook and pencil
• Basic sewing kit- needle, threads, scissors
• Paper scissors
• Any decorative threads or fibres you wish to use for surface decoration on white prefelt
• A selection of fabric scraps - a scrap can be as small as 3cm by 5cm - felt, velvet, tweed, lace, all work well- just bring what you have or want to recycle
• Optional: A selection of odd buttons, earrings, toggles to intersperse with the beads in the fun and funky necklaces

Materials Cost:

There will be a charge of £8 to cover the cost of fibres. This is payable directly to the tutor.