Visible Mending or Embellishment with Felting

Mend or embellish your clothing with felting!

In this class I’ll teach you how to needle felt a design on a garment, then wet felt it to strengthen the design and make it durable. We’ll start by needle felting with a barbed needle to tangle wool roving into the fabric of your garment until it’s completely flat on one side, then we’ll wet felt the design to tangle together the fluffy fibers on the inside, and further mat down the fibers on the outside. This reduces pilling and creates a long-lasting design.

You’ll have the option to use my washaway templates and create fruit designs: strawberry, lemon, avocado or apple, OR you can create your own design and experiment. I’ll have a variety of wool colours available to choose from.

This technique can be used to repair holes, cover up stains, or bring life to an old garment. Please bring a garment or fabric to felt on that is knit or woven, at least twice as thick as a t-shirt and can be hand washed. Wool sweaters are easiest to felt on, and other less grippy materials may take longer to integrate the wool into. Thinner materials such as t-shirts tend to get holes when felted with the sharp barbed needle, but if you don’t mind possible damage you can bring a thinner material as well. I will have a few sweaters available to purchase for $15 each at the class.

Level: Beginner

Age Range: Adults, Teens (13-18), Kids (8-12, accompanied by adult)

Instructor: Emma DuBois (Read Emma's bio)

Members: $50

Non-Members: $60

Materials fee: $10 and optional $15 sweater paid via cash, check, venmo, or card (collected at time of workshop)

Materials provided by instructor: Wool, felting needles, felting pads, wash away stabilizer templates, garbage bags (to protect a surface when wet felting, and carry home a wet project in), soap.

Students should bring:  A garment or fabric to felt on that is knit or woven is at least twice as thick as a t-shirt and can be hand washed will work. Wool sweaters are easiest to felt on, and other materials may take longer to integrate the wool into. Thinner materials such as t-shirts tend to get holes when felted with the sharp barbed needle, but if you don’t mind possible damage you can bring a thinner material as well. I will have a few sweaters available to purchase for $15 each at the class.

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