Felting Workshop: Woodsy Forest Vessels/Vessels Inspired by Nature

Teacher: Dawn Edwards
Website: www.feltsoright.com

Dates: April 12 & 13, 2025
Cost: $325
Location: Guild House

Class description: Join us for an immersive wet-felting experience under the guidance of your tutor, Dawn Edwards. Drawing inspiration from the organic shapes, textures, and colors found in the natural environment, we will explore various felting techniques, layering colour, and incorporating intricate details, to create amazing textures which capture the essence of nature. We will form our 3D wet-felted vessels using a flat resist. Felting around a resist will produce a seamless, hollow shape.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced feltmaker, this workshop offers a welcoming and supportive environment for all skill levels. Reserve your spot today and let your imagination soar amidst the wonders of the natural world.

Class level: Suitable for all levels. We will be rolling our felt which requires some physical
exertion. Please wear comfortable shoes and clothes.

Materials: The teacher will provide a kit for each student that includes the wool batts, embellishments, plastic underlayment for the pattern, plastic resist materials, and written instructions.

Students will need to provide:

• 3 old bath size towels
• A small plastic bucket for water
• Small bottle of regular blue Dawn dish soap (no Oxy or bleach formulas) or your favorite felting soap (olive oil soap is great).
• Very sharp, pointy scissors for cutting into felt (Fiskars are great).
• 12 marbles.
• 12 buttons, color doesn’t matter as they will be covered, size: 3/4 - 1 inch.
• A ‘ball brause’ (wet felting bulb) or laundry water sprinkler.

• Bubble wrap...2 ft. wide x 4 ft. length, small bubbles. This wider width can be found in Home Depot
• and most home improvement stores in the packing supplies section. If unable to find, narrower widths may be Duck (duct) taped together on the smooth side. 
• A wooden spoon for shaping the vessel. 
• Pool noodle (I cut mine in half for a length of 24 inches) for rolling the felt.
• Old pantyhose or a t-shirt which can be cut up to tie/secure your bundle for rolling.
• Strong thread (brown or black is great) and a sewing needle.
• Optional: Synthetic netting fabric or polyester lace curtain to cover the felt surface to rub or blot through, minimum size 12”x12”
• Scissors to cut plastic.

About the Teacher: Dawn Edwards is a felt artist and tutor based in Plainwell, Michigan USA. She sells her work under the label ‘Felt So Right’ and teaches extensively within the USA and internationally. Her felt art has appeared in numerous exhibitions, shows, magazines and books, including Ellen Bakker's book, Worldwide Colours of Felt, several issues of the Australian 'FELT' Magazine, the International Feltmakers Association Felt Matters journal, the HGA journal Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot. Dawn’s felt vessel, ‘The Earth Beneath My Feet’ (2022) and her 'Blue Coral' felt hat (2020) were both chosen as juried selections for FELT: Fiber Transformed in the magazine, ‘Fiber Art
Now’.

Dawn is the co-coordinator of the not-for-profit group, 'Felt United', which currently has over 7,500 members, with the goal of uniting feltmakers from all around the world.