Would you love to learn how to make some really fun felt hats? Then you need to take this wonderful online class with Teri Berry, Felted Concertina Hats.
The online class registration is now open and you can sign up here. The class starts on October 24 and is a four week course. You’ll learn all about how to make concertina felt hats and Teri shows you some great adaptations and how to move forward to create other felt hats.
You’ll learn about hat blocks, shaping and sizing your hats.
You’ll also learn how to make this cool snail hat as well as how to blend colors and make silk stripes.
So sign up now to learn how to make some really cool felt hats. You do need some felting experience but you do not need to have made a hat before. If you are confident making felt pods, bowls, bags etc. over a resist you will be able to make these hats.
Registration is now open for the four online classes Embellishing Felt with Surface Design Techniques – A Mixed Media Approach. These are all a fun, experimental approach to adding different types of surface design to felt. Any of these approaches will encourage you to create unique felt in your own style. I hope you will join me this spring in learning something new! (If you aren’t interested in a class, just skip to the end of this post for a question.)
All classes are online and last a total of 6 weeks with 4 weeks of instruction and 2 more extra weeks of tutor/instructor support. All classes are taught with PDF’s and videos. PDF’s are available for download for future use and videos are available for the 6 week time period. Classes will begin April 19th and cost $45 US each. I would recommend taking the classes one at a time. There will be another session of classes offered in the fall.
Paper fabric lamination is a technique of essentially gluing paper to sheer fabric in a specific design. It is not a new technique and has been used by fiber artists for a long time. When I first learned the technique, I wondered how I would use the result. Many artists use paper fabric lamination and layer the results together with stitching and other methods. When I looked at my samples, I saw sheer fabric with a design and thought “Why not try nuno felting with it?” I tried it, it worked, and I loved the results. It was a way to use my own designs and create a piece of nuno felt that was completely different and in my own style. Click on the link above to register, scroll down the page and fill out the contact form.
Screen printing has long been one of my favorite techniques and I love its quirky look on felt. This class shows you the basics of many different screen printing techniques and you will learn an experimental approach that will allow you to take these ideas and expand them into your own unique style. Click on the link above to register, scroll down the page and fill out the contact form.
How to make a print board
How to make thickened dye
How to transfer your designs
Choosing what designs are appropriate for stencils and stamps
Creating stencils from a variety of supplies
Cutting and burning stencils
Creating stamps from a variety of supplies
Cutting a linoleum type stamp
Burning a stamp from insulation foam
Looking at items around the house with a new eye for use in creating patterned felt
How to play with thickened dye
How to stamp and stencil with thickened dye on to felt
Click on the link above to register, scroll down the page and fill out the contact form.
You will learn the basics of free motion stitching. I will show you the basic techniques and equipment needed as well as give you lots of practice ideas to improve your skills. Next you will learn about machine lace techniques and how to incorporate them into felt making. You will learn to use a hoop in the machine with water soluble fabric. Then learn about thread sketching. We’ll start out with easy designs and then progress to how to use water soluble fabric to transfer a design and free hand thread sketching. Lastly, you will learn about experimentation and moving forward with your newly found free motion machine skills. I will show you how to add stitch to a felt painting as well as other ideas in how to use your sewing machine to enhance felt. Click on the link above to register, scroll down the page and fill out the contact form.
As always, our Wet Felting for Beginners Course is always available. Click on the link above to register, scroll down the page and fill out the contact form.
Now if you have made it down this far, I have a question for you. I have finally finished my Level 3 Art and Design class and I want to add some more tutorials here at The Felting and Fiber Studio. What types of things would you like to learn about? These will be fairly simple tutorials or tips, so do you have a burning felting question that I can answer for you? Is there a technique that you don’t understand? Or do you have tip or technique that you’d like to share? Let me know. I will be creating some new content soon so keep your eyes peeled 🙂
I have updated the online class schedule for 2019. Please take a look under the tab online classes at the top of this page to see the schedule. If you are interested in taking any classes in 2019, please fill out the contact us form and tell us which classes you want to take and the class date. We will then add you to the email notification list to be notified when the class registration opens.
If you are interested in surface design on felt with a mixed media approach, take a look at my classes Embellishing Felt with Surface Design Techniques – A Mixed Media Approach which are presented in four modules. You can take them all or select just one or two. Each class is separate and since all the classes are online, you don’t have to travel and you can work at your own pace. I will be offering two sessions of these classes in 2019.
If you would like to learn more advanced felting techniques such as using multiple resists, shaping, adding straps and closures, making internal compartments, creating a hat for the correct head size, using a hat block and much more. Take a look at Teri Berry’s two online class offerings: Felted Concertina Hats and Felted Bags. Teri will take your felting skills to a new level so that you will be confident in designing and creating your own felt hats and bags. Teri is offering 2 sessions of the hat making course and 1 session of the bag course during 2019. Please fill out the contact us form if you’re interested so you can get on the email notification list.
Our Wet Felting for Beginners online course is always available. If you are just starting out and need to learn the basics, this is a great place to start. Perhaps you want to put this class on your holiday wish list! Just sign up at the link above to learn the basics of wet felting, shrinkage and information about a variety of fibers that work for felting.
We do have some other online classes in the works but I don’t have any firm details yet. But we are working on nuno felting, felt scarves and perhaps even some needle felted pictures. What would you like to learn about in the felting and fiber arena? Let us know and we’ll see if we can create an online class that fills that need.
