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Be inspired by Jim Ede's pebble displays at Kettles Yard and land artists Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long.  Display your pebbles on a table in a bowl on a shelf or a book case or thread them onto a linen string to create a window/wall hanging for your bathroom or elsewhere in your home.

This kit provides you with sufficient wool tops, wool roving, acrylic filling to create 5 natural coloured stones between 4-10cm in diameter or 10 tiny pebbles for a wall hanging.  It also includes a chunk of olive oil soap, a needle felting needle and a length of linen yarn.

You will also be provided with a link to a comprehensive video showing how to create the pebbles/stones.

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Felted Wool Pebble Kit

Everybody looks great in a woolly jumper and this little felted woollen planter won't scratch your surfaces!

This kit provides you with sufficient merino wool tops to create a small felt vessel - think tea cup sized.  It also includes some of the materials and some of the equipment you need.

Any other equipment you will be able to find around your home and a sheet of hacks will be included in your kit.

You'll learn how to layer and mix fibres.  What a resist is and the best materials to make one from.  How to control shrinkage, how to shape your vessel and where to find out about felting history.

Make a woolly Planter and learn 3D wet felting:

All the materials plus some of the equipment, Plus a link and password to the step by step video.

During checkout you'll be asked what colour of pre-felt you'd like for your background - natural, black, blue or plaster. I'll pack this together with a selection of pre-felt pieces in a variety of colours and sizes, an A4 sheet of tracing paper, fine net, chunk of olive oil soap and a sheet of bubble wrap (if you haven’t got a large enough piece waiting for recycling) and post the kit off to you.

If you'd like I can also signpost you to various inspiration to get you started, just get in touch.

To make your felt collage you'll use sharp scissors to cut and place different colours of pre-felt atop an A4* size pre-felt background (or two A5*).  Once your design is complete you'll use wet felt making techniques to bring your cut pre-felt together into the finished piece without the need for glue or a single stitch!  Once it is dry, if you'd like, you can embellish it with stitch or beads.
Or pop it straight into a frame and hang it on your wall.

Abstract Collage using pre-felt

This Live online version of my pebble workshop needs a minimum of TWO people to run and for me to post you a kit; please bear this in mind when booking.    Please message me if you're looking to join a group.

Join me for roughly an hour and a half and learn how to make felted wool pebbles using simple wet felting techniques inspired by Jim Ede's pebble displays at Kettles Yard and land artists Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long.

Display your pebbles on a table in a bowl on a window ledge or shelf or thread them onto a linen string to create a window/wall hanging for your bathroom or elsewhere in your home.   Or create a stack of "stones" - focussing on a single task can help concentrate the mind from thoughts and worries.  It can be extremely relaxing whilst developing a sense of patience - finding the centre point of gravity can prove tricky with woollen stones and requires a slow steady hand!

The kit I'll send you provides you with sufficient wool tops, wool batts, acrylic filling to create a minimum of 5 natural coloured stones between 4-10cm in diameter plus a tester pebble.
It also includes a chunk of olive oil soap, a needle felting needle, a length of linen yarn and if you don't have any around some bubble wrap.

Felted Pebbles or Stacking Stones

The gate way to all things 3D in the wet felting world, using a variation on the method for 2D wet felting Heather will guide you through the layering techniques to make a small seam free vessel using a resist.   ﻿Once you've learnt this you can make slippers, bags, cat caves, hats, hot water bottle covers, lamp shades, purse, the list goes on ...

With a maximum of four participants, these three hour workshops are designed to provide everybody with plenty of time for one on one attention.  Heather always aims for sessions to be flexible to individual participants needs.  Tabletop Workshops, the teaching arm of Purr & Wag It runs out of Heather’s Camberwell home.  There will be plenty of home made cake, teas and/or coffee to keep you going.

Wet felt making is a simple process (once you know how) made up of a series of repetitive actions.  Many people find it relaxing and some a stress buster.  But, elements of felt making are quite vigorous and very hands on.  If you have arthritis in your hands you may find parts of the process challenging.  That being said it’s not stopped anybody before and Heather is very happy to help you with vigorous parts of the process.

Allergies to cats or indeed wool?  Please note Heather has three cats (they’ll be elsewhere in the house during the workshops).  Antihistamines are available but her workshops may not be for you.

3D Wet Felting/Felt making - make a small vessel

You will be guided through how to lay out the fibres to make a flat piece of felt as well as using carders to blend colours.  Then using the reference material you have brought with you, create a simple figurative or abstract image for the top.  Lastly you'll learn how to transform all the loose fibres into a piece of cloth.

If you can't quite decide what type of  image to create Heather's home is full of art and design books and if need be she can print you an image to adapt.

Taking place at Heather's home in Camberwell.  You will be fuelled by plenty of home made cake, teas and/or coffee.  With a maximum of four participants, these three hour workshops are designed to provide everybody with plenty of time for one on one attention.  Heather always aims for sessions to be flexible to individual participants needs.

Wet felt making is a simple process (once you know how) made up of a series of repetitive actions.  Many people find it relaxing and some a stress buster.  But, elements of felt making are quite vigorous and very hands on.  If you have arthritis in your hands you may find parts of the process challenging.  That being said it’s not stopped anybody before and Heather is very happy to help you with vigorous parts of the process.

Allergies to cats or indeed wool?  Please note Heather has three cats (they’ll be elsewhere in the house during the workshops).  Antihistamines are available but her workshops may not be for you.

Painting with fibres - Intro to 2D Wet Felting/ Felt making: Inspired by your own image

Taking place at Heather's home in Camberwell on one day* (five hour and a half hours workshop plus an hour break).   As ever you will be fuelled by plenty of home made cake, teas and/or coffee.   If it's a special occasion do let me know and I'll bake a special cake!

In the morning you will be guided through how to make a small flat piece of felt, blend colours, create a simple pictorial or abstract image and chose and prepare your fibres for your 3D vessel. lf there’s time we’ll also go over how to make beads.

In the afternoon you will be guided through how to use a resist** to make a small seam free 3D vessel.

By the end of the day you should have completed a 2D and 3D wet felted work as well as understand the first principals of wet felting.

Wet felt making is a simple process (once you know how) made up of a series of repetitive actions.  Many people find it relaxing and some a stress buster.  But, elements of felt making are quite vigorous and very hands on.  If you have arthritis in your hands you may find parts of the process challenging.  That being said it’s not stopped anybody before and Heather is very happy to help you with vigorous parts of the process.

Allergies to cats or indeed wool?  Please note Heather has three cats (they’ll be elsewhere in the house during the workshops).  Antihistamines are available but her workshops may not be for you.

We'll take an hour's break half way through for a light lunch when you can either pop to one of Camberwell's local  cafes or if you prefer bring a pack up.

**A "resist" is a piece of cloth or other material that stops the wool fibres from one set of layers felting to those below.

A day of felt making: 2D and 3D Wet Felting

A ‘Percher Hat’ is a delightful hat which is small enough to simply ‘perch’ on the edge of the head. This is the typical style of hat which you’ll find in the Sahar Millinery collections. Often, percher hats look quite vintage - akin to the pillbox hats of the 50s or structured beret hats of the 40s. However, depending on how you trim / style your hat - it could also look completely contemporary.

There is a variety of blocks (ie shapes) available (pillbox, button, beret etc). If you like the idea of doing the felt class, but would rather block a ‘full’ hat, there is also the option of making a cloche (ie 1920s shape) or trilby hat.

As you book, Sahar will ask you what shape you’d like to make as the blocks are available on a first come first served basis (typically one hat shape per person). She will also provide you with a colour chart so you can order the felt colour you’d like to use.

At the end of the class, each participant will have one new hat to take away with them, and gained an insight into the world of millinery - it’s materials, techniques, and how trimmings can drastically alter the look and feel of a hat.

This class is suitable for all levels. Basic sewing knowledge is helpful but not essential.

Vintage Felt Hat Making Workshop

This Live online version of my pre-felt workshop needs a minimum of TWO people to run and for me to post you a kit; please bear this in mind when booking.    Please message me if  you're looking to join a group.

On this online workshop you'll use sharp scissors to cut and place different colours of pre-felt atop an A4* size pre-felt background (or two A5*).

Once your design is complete we’ll use wet felt making techniques to bring your cut pre-felt together into the finished piece without the need for glue or a single stitch!

Exactly what is pre-felt?  It's partially processed felt, somewhere between the loose fluffy wool fibres and fully fused felt fabric.  It differs from craft felt in that it needs to be further worked to create a finished product.   Pre-felt’s "part cooked" state, it's propensity to be cut into clean crisp shapes coupled with its tendency to better keep its shape during processing make pre-felt perfect to use to create collage style imagery.

In your kit you’ll receive a selection of pre-felt pieces in various colours and sizes plus the A4 background, an A4 sheet of tracing paper, net, chunk of olive oil soap and a sheet of bubble wrap (if you haven’t got a large enough piece waiting for recycling).
Once you’ve booked you’ll need to contact me to let me know what colour background you want to use (a choice of three: natural, blue or plaster).  I can also signpost you to various inspiration to get you started.

Developing the pre-felt into felt is made up of a series of repetitive actions.  Many people find these relaxing and some a stress buster.  But, the final stages of wet felting can be quite vigorous and is very hands on.  If you have arthritis or a similar condition in your hands you may find parts of the process more challenging.  This does not mean you will not be able to undertake this workshop, just that it may take you a little longer to fully felt your work.

Please note during the wet felting process your work will shrink.  Pre-felt tends to shrink less than handmade wet felting.
 By how much varies considerably for lots of reasons including the structure of the pre-felt and the technique of the maker.  I find a general rule of thumb is between 5-10%.   These figures rise to 10-30% for completely hand made wet felted work.

Collages and Paintings Using Pre-Felt

1st May places available!

This Live online version of my 3D wet felting workshop needs a minimum of TWO people to run and for me to post you a kit; please bear this in mind when booking.    Please message me if you're looking to join a group.

On this workshop you’ll use a variation of 2D wet felting to create a small vessel/planter.  Heather will post you a kit with the materials and some of the equipment you need.  Any other equipment you will be able to find around your home.  The pre-class notes explains all.  On the workshop you’ll be guided through how to use the resist, the layering and felting techniques to make and shape your work.

﻿Once you've mastered this you can make slippers, bags, cat caves, hats, hot water bottle covers, lamp shades, purses, phone covers, and the list goes on ...

This is a two part workshop of one and a half hour each with a maximum of six participants.  Keeping it small means I have plenty of time for one on one attention. I need a minimum of two participants to run it.

Processing the fibres is made up of a series of repetitive actions. Many people find this relaxing and some a stress buster.  But, the final stages of wet felt making can be quite vigorous and very hands on. If you have arthritis or a similar condition in your hands you may find parts of the process more challenging.  This does not mean you will not be able to undertake this workshop, just that it may take you a little longer to felt your work.  But if you're feeling at all unsure please message me.

Make a woolly planter and learn the basics of 3D Wet Felting

You'll use scissors to cut/place different colours of pre felt  atop a maximum A3 size pre-felt background.  Then you'll use wet felting techniques to bring everything together to form your final pieces of work.  Depending on the complexity of what you make you may have time to make more than one piece.   You can use abstract Bauhaus imagery as inspiration or bring your own.

A relaxed workshop taking place at Heather's home studio in Camberwell fuelled by plenty of home made cake and teas.  A maximum of four participants, means these  workshops provide everybody with plenty of time for one on one attention.  Heather always aims for sessions to be flexible to individual participants needs.

This workshop uses wet felt making techniques to bring your cut pre-felt together into the finished piece.   It's a simple process (once you know how) made up of a series of repetitive actions.  Many people find it relaxing and some a stress buster.  But, the final stages of of felt making are quite vigorous and very hands on.  If you have arthritis in your hands you may find parts of the process challenging.  That being said it’s not stopped anybody before and Heather is very happy to help you with vigorous parts of the process.

Allergies to cats or indeed wool?  Please note Heather has three cats (they’ll be elsewhere in the house during the workshops).  Antihistamines are available but her workshops may not be for you.


Abstract Painting using pre-felt inspired by the masters - Braque, Matisse, Bauhaus weavers ... 

Spend a day learning to wet felt to create beautifully crafted, unique pictures. You will be able to explore the possibilities of using felt for picture making. Your 2D felted projects could be later made into framed pictures, wall hangings, book covers, and bags.

We will be making our wet felt picture projects and will be embellishing the finished felt so you can add depth, texture and detail.

Embellishments such as beads and buttons can also be sewn on by hand, embroidery stitched to add texture and details, as well as adding 3D needle felted details to your work. For example, adding needle felted butterflies, leaves, flowers etc.

This is a truly creative wet-felt-making day!

Suitable for complete beginners and those with some wet felting experience who wish to add to their knowledge and improve their skills.

Maximum Workshop: 2 (July) - 4 (August+) People to allow for distancing

We use as many ordinary household items as possible to make wet felt so there is very little you need by way of additional equipment to continue this versatile craft at home - just felting wool! For needle felting at home, you will need felting needles and a surface to work on such as a foam pad. These will be supplied for use while you are in the workshop.

All the other equipment will be supplied except an apron which you may like to bring. Please wear clothes suitable for crafting (wet-felting can get a bit damp but not very 'wet').

Wet-felting can be quite physically hard work so help is always available if you should need or want some extra umph! and we adapt how we work to be fully inclusive.

You may want to do more work on finishing your picture after the workshop.

Maximum number on workshop is currently 2 people for July (and may increase to 4 people in August).

This class is suitable for adults or accompanied teens. If you are not sure if this workshop is suitable for your teen please ask any questions before booking - always happy to help and advise.

Hot and cold drinks are available throughout the session. Please bring lunch, snacks and any other refreshments which you would like which are appropriate for the length of workshop which you have booked. Please bring your own travel mug or similar if possible.

Introduction to wet felt picture making in Henstridge near Stalbridge Dorset & Somerset

We can teach you everything you need to know about felt making and ow best to use it. Our high-level courses and informative workshops cover all the vital components involved and will emphasise all the core learning points for you to focus on.

Felt Making classes, courses, learning kits and gifts on Obby

Felted Wool Pebble Kit

Make a woolly Planter and learn 3D wet felting:

Abstract Collage using pre-felt

Felted Pebbles or Stacking Stones

3D Wet Felting/Felt making - make a small vessel

Painting with fibres - Intro to 2D Wet Felting/ Felt making: Inspired by your own image

A day of felt making: 2D and 3D Wet Felting

Vintage Felt Hat Making Workshop

Collages and Paintings Using Pre-Felt

Make a woolly planter and learn the basics of 3D Wet Felting

Abstract Painting using pre-felt inspired by the masters - Braque, Matisse, Bauhaus weavers ...

Introduction to wet felt picture making in Henstridge near Stalbridge Dorset & Somerset

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Felt Making classes, courses, learning kits and gifts on Obby

Felted Wool Pebble Kit

Make a woolly Planter and learn 3D wet felting:

Abstract Collage using pre-felt

Felted Pebbles or Stacking Stones

3D Wet Felting/Felt making - make a small vessel

Painting with fibres - Intro to 2D Wet Felting/ Felt making: Inspired by your own image

A day of felt making: 2D and 3D Wet Felting

Vintage Felt Hat Making Workshop

Collages and Paintings Using Pre-Felt

Make a woolly planter and learn the basics of 3D Wet Felting

Abstract Painting using pre-felt inspired by the masters - Braque, Matisse, Bauhaus weavers ...

Introduction to wet felt picture making in Henstridge near Stalbridge Dorset & Somerset

Use obby giftcardson any learning kit

Use obby giftcards
on any learning kit