A topic that comes up regularly at the Craft Shows is “Do you do workshops?”
Many people are attracted to the creative element of Needle felting and many also find Needle felting to be a very therapeutic practice, with the bonus of your own finished artistic creation at the end of a your session.
We do hold felting workshop sessions. Our own premises is not suitable for holding classes and we are constantly looking around for host venues. If you have a suitable venue, anywhere that a small group can gather around a table or two in which a class can be hosted we would be delighted to come along and meet with your group. Castle-Craft can supply tools, materials, and experienced expertise to guide your group through a felting class.
At our workshops all participants are provided with a bag containing all the materials and tools (which you can take away after the session) you will need to complete your needle felt project.
COMMERCIAL NEEDLE FELT KITS.
Many people have approached us at our stall at the craft fairs to say that they have a needle felt kit, often received as a gift, but they are not sure about starting, or maybe have started but come up against a problem and so have given up. These problems are solvable. Maybe the materials are not the best quality for beginners (broken or blunted needles?), maybe the instructions are not quite clear enough. Often, you just need to talk it through with someone to give you the confidence to continue.
Castle Craft is thinking about setting up a Workshop session for people to bring their own kits along and sit around the table sharing advice and help. Castle Craft can also supply alternative tools and materials to enhance the kits. For instance, some kits contain plastic or polystyrene cores around which figures are sculpted which are not easy for beginners to work with, Castle Craft only uses wool cores, sometimes on a wire armature and can help you adapt you kit. We also believe that there is no better way to practice a craft than to practice with others
If this is something that interests you, email us. Obviously we would need to get enough people who can all gather together at the same place and time, but we will start a list and see if we can set something up.
Or a seasonal bauble.
Castle-Craft is based in Devon. A long journey time reduces the useful time spent at the venue so we are only able participate in Craft Fairs and workshops at venues in Devon and occasionally in East Cornwall or West Dorset.
We suggest for a first session in Needle Felting your group is guided through creating a Felt Figure from start to finish.
Perhaps a mushroom person
OUR NEXT WORKSHOP SESSIONS.
See Calendar below for Fairs and workshops
A proud first time felter shows off a finished Castle-Craft workshop project.
A nest of mice, line up for thier end of session photocall. This happy gang was created by a group of first time felters at a Castle-Craft workshop session in Okehampton on 15th February this year.
These figures are created around a rigid wire armature and so are posable.
Other workshop sessions have included Sculpted figures and Creating landscapes in Needle felt.
Castle-Craft Christmas decoration workshop session crafters with their Castle-Craft bags of tools and materials. (Teas in this case supplied by the venue).
Following these simple designs will give your group the chance to practice the basic skills and techniques to create their own finished Felt Figure by the end of the session.
