The process of wet felting uses heat, agitation, and moisture to shrink and bond the fibers of the wool together.
Products & Services
Workshops
Workshop are offered for:
- Schools
- Birthday Parties
- Homeschoolers
- Parent & Child
- Parent Education
Workshops offered:
- Wet-felting
- Woodworking
- Needle-felting
- Jewellery-making
- Basket-weaving
- Knitting
- Crocheting
- Calligraphy
- Paper Art
Easter Activities
WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS
Pictures show the creation of a "legacy project" a graduating grade 8 felted in Ottawa. The scene was inspired by the year-end class trip to the Georgian Bay.
Woodworking & Basket Weaving
Felting Parties
Host a wonderful, memorable felting party, suitable for any age. Everybody responds to the magic of feltmaking. Children and adults will be completely absorbed for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Every guest will go home with a finished project.
This is an ideal birthday party activity for school aged children, for up to 12 guests. The party will take place in either your own home or a venue of your choice. I will bring everything needed including materials and equipment; all you need to provide are some old towels and table space that might will get wet with soapy water if you choose a wet-felting activity.
Price $140 (children) $180 (adults)which includes all materials.
Workshops can be custom made for your needs and interest. Anything that you see on the photos can be offered as a workshop. The duration & price of the workshop varies with the complexity of the project and seize of the group.
Products to Order
Every item displayed on this website is available for order. If interested, please send me an e-mail.
Thank you
Everything you see in the photos can be purchased either by sending a request via e-mail or alternatively you can visit the feltablility store on etsy.com (in the process of being set up)
Needle Felting
Needle felting, also known as dry felting, is the art of creating 2 and 3 dimensional felt objects using a barbed needle in various sizes and rovings or yarns. Workshops for 2 dimensional picture suitable for framing and a small 3D project are available. Many examples can be seen in the Gallery.
Felting needles were first used in the textile industry to manufacture non-woven fabrics. The needles are either triangular or four-sided with small barbs on each of the sides at the pointed end.
In industry the needles are closely set into a needle board and raised and lowered through a loose web of fibres. As the barbed needles penetrate the fibres they push fibres from the upper layers down through the lower layers and by repeating this action the fibres become entangled.
Feltmakers are now recognizing the potential of these needles in creating detailed designs in felt and also for sculpting wool fibres into three dimensional shapes.
Flash Gallery / Slideshow
Wet Felting
Felt is the first textile known in the history of man kind - dating from 7,000 B.C. People learned to make felt before they could spin, weave or knit. Feltmaking is still practiced by nomadic people in Central Asia and northern parts of East Asia, where rugs, tents and clothing or the classic yurt are still made today.
Crocheting
What is crochet, the types of hooks used and how to hold, types of yarn used, basic crochet stitches: chain stitch, single, double & triple crochet, corners, working in the round, basic crochet increase & decrease, ideas on simple projects and how to use crochet as an embellishment. The class project will be a spa cloth. No experience required. Crochet hook sizes used: 4 – 5 mm.
No experience needed.
Knitting
Please send an e-mail to get a class going!
Cost: $30 for 2 classes. Sessions can be set up anytime we have 3 - 4 persons with interest. Session can take place either in Ottawa South or Chelsea.
Elements covered: how to cast on, increase, decrease, cast off, knit stitch, purl stitch, tension / gauge.
The project we propose is a small knit shoulder bag, great for a summer or winter bag depending on the choice of yarns. No experience needed. Suitable for adults and / or children.