A New Departure - Craft Cruises

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Off to sea and craft teaching

A new departure for me – teaching craft on a cruise ship!

I see this as my dream job, I got to combine my love of travel and exploring with my second love of teaching and sharing my skills with enthusiastic people. I had never thought about cruising around the British Isles and north France before but I would highly recommend it as a way of gaining a flavour of the beautiful Islands that surround us!

Apart from that I enjoyed the Fabulous, varied entertainment in the evenings, the talks, quizzes, the spa and best of all being served delicious food and being waited on in the restaurants on board. So many opportunities to meet people and make new friends. I have been eating salads since returning as those extra pounds need to go!!

As you will know Teaching arts and crafts is nothing new to me. My regular courses were still taking bookings whilst I was away and marketing is a never ending job! My usual classes are either 2.5hrs or 6 hrs, so fitting activities into a 1 hour ish slot and with much larger classes was all go and organisation was key! I’m glad that I was super organised and had planned ahead.

Preparation Time

I really enjoyed making up the 300 kits in total, music on and I got into the zone!! It was fun to fill a huge suitcase full of crafts and not worry about the weight of volume lol but I did have to lug the cases to the terminal!! I usually travel light with just enough clothes for my journey so x 2 cases was a challenge to load and unload!

Anyway, I’m happy to say that the weeks of preparation paid off and my classes were successful with an average of 19 people in each one, but I had 44 on the sea day :-). A much deserved G & T was welcomed afterwards lol

I’m pleased to say the feedback has been excellent with people stopping me to ask when the next class was on!

What crafts did we do?

Creative Craft Variety

I taught a few of the crafts that I have an interest in, although I have many different activities planned besides these! This time I did: jewellery making, collage, concertina book making and of course needle felted pictures and animals, my business is called Feltworld so it wouldn’t be right to miss these out!

The beaded jewellery class was popular with bracelets and necklaces were made using the kits that I had put together, over many a long evening lol, so they were all different with beautiful beads.

Collage Art

Another fun craft was collage with an antique feel or a contemporary textile collaged mounted card.

Vintage Collage

Textile Collage

Feltmaking

Using merino fleece, alpaca and silks. My 50 kits were very popular and as you can see below, they look amazing. With limited time the finished pieces were smaller than you’d create in a full workshop but students were still able to have fun creating some beautiful designs. Other things we covered were scrap booking and memory books.

Feltmaking

Felt creations

Feltmaking

All work and no play is not good for a soul and happily I was able to go ashore when we stopped off at various ports, including Orkney, Stornoway, Belfast, Cork, Scilly Isles, and Le Harvre- Honfleur (France).

The weather was actually beautiful, we had left the rain behind at Tilbury UK and didn’t pick it up again until Guernsey.

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Cork, Ireland

Scilly Isles

Honfleur, France

Back to dry land

After 10 days of cruising and teaching I’m back at home and planning more of my day and half day workshops. August is always a quiet month so if you would like to request a workshop with a minimum of two people then please message me to discuss. Otherwise I have September filling up.

Creative Talks for small groups

I am also taking booking for my two talks on:

1) Rug making in Konya Turkey and

2) Exploring Bali, Charity work, Batik Painting. See here

You can find out more about my workshops on the workshop page and on my Facebook and Instagram pages.

A Shop For Creative Gifts

Creative gifts from Feltworld

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I am constantly making beautiful creative things using the various techniques I teach. You can see some of them above and many more on my Shop pages. I’d be delighted to show you how to make them yourself if you come along to a workshop.

For those of you looking for a unique, hand-made item to give as a special gift there may not be time to make one yourself. So I’ve decided to offer many of the items I’ve made myself in my new shop.

Each item is of course unique and the prices shown on my shop pages include postage.

For those of you new to my work, I teach three different types of felt making. You’ll find various examples for sale in the shop.

• Nuno felting can be used to create beautiful scarves
• Wet felting can be used to create pictures as well as 3D objects such as bags, slippers, and bowls
• Needle felting is used to create cute little animals, for example

I also teach alcohol ink painting. This is a very fluid form of painting that uses alcohol based inks on a special type of paper. You can create beautiful abstract pictures as well as more figurative ones. Several of my alcohol ink pieces are for sale.

Batik painting is another popular workshop that you can book on the Workshops page. I’ve been very impressed with the quality of work produced in just one day using Batik.

Still can’t decide what to give as a gift? Gift vouchers are available in the shop and can be used for any of my workshops.

It's That Time

It’s that time of year again (almost!)

As I write this there are very few windows left on the advent calendar and pretty soon Christmas will be upon us. Another week after that and we’re in to the new year, which is traditionally the time for setting new year resolutions. Any ideas what yours will be? 

Some of the traditional choices include:

• Lose weight
• Stop smoking
• Exercise more

They are all good goals to aim for, even if they don’t always make it into the start of February.  But as they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day.

The trick is to be ambitious enough to motivate yourself but not so ambitious you give up and feel bad about it. If you want to climb Everest then a good place to start might be Snowdon in Wales. Build up to it at a pace that suits you, just don’t give up at the first hurdle.

What about some other new year resolutions? Maybe ones that seem a lot more like fun and less like an endurance test?

A fun day out learning Batik – Find out more Here

Some options…

How about:

• Take more time for yourself, you know, relaxing with no ‘To Do’ list nagging at you?

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• Do something new that you haven’t tried before?

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• Learn a new skill?

Here are Feltworld – Creative Arts you can do all three at the same time – take time out for yourself to do something different, and at the same time learn a new skill. Did you know that art is also great at reducing stress?

Apart from being an enjoyable day out students often find they can forget about the worries of all the things they need to do at home or at work. At the same time they realise they can make beautiful items when they have someone to guide them through.

So if you are looking for something different for the new year why not take a look at the workshops on offer at Feltworld? Go on, surprise yourself!

You can book a workshop here: Workshops

Workshops are available in Batik, Alcohol Inks, Wet Felting, Needle Felting, and Nuno Felting

Video of a Batik workshop – click to view

(opens in the Feltworld-Creative Arts Facebook page https://fb.watch/a31pjIb0qh/ )

Creative Therapy

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Creative therapy can take many forms

In a previous blog post I mentioned that learning art and being creative is a type of therapy – I have benefitted in this way from my own art.  Let’s look into some of the benefits and the thinking behind them.

Art reduces stress

Sometimes it may not seem like art reduces stress. If you let it, art can be frustrating if you are struggling to get paint to behave as you expect – more about this later.

Making art can help take your mind off things that might otherwise worry you and reduce anxiety, depression and stress. In that sense it acts a bit like meditation – it draws your concentration away from everyday worries. 

What counts as art?

When you think of artistic hobbies, drawing and painting spring to mind. But what about sculpting with a block of clay? How about wood carving? Photography perhaps? Or my own particular interests felt making, batik, and painting with alcohol inks? 

Whatever form of art you choose there is always the danger that you try to run before you’ve learnt to walk! A great way to add to your stress levels is to have an idea in your mind’s eye and not be able to achieve it. So don’t be too rigid and definitely don’t be too hard on yourself if things don’t go the way you want. 

Getting started.

Here are a five thoughts to keep in mind as you get started. 

1. Remember art is supposed to be fun. It can be a challenge at times but that shouldn’t take away from the fun.

2. You don’t need to go out and purchase the very best equipment when you are starting out. So forget that high end camera with all the bells and whistles and see how you get on with the camera in your phone first. Equally, you don’t need the finest sable brushes to do your first watercolour (they can be VERY expensive!). 

3. On the other hand, don’t skimp on materials – student quality will be fine. 

4. If you can, join a class to get you started. This is especially useful for something like batik where you get to try out the art medium with a good tutor who supplies the equipment you need to  get started. Felt making is another example where your tutor will supply all you need as well as sharing years worth of their experience. Besides which, learning in a group setting is fun in itself. 

5. Learn to go with the flow of the medium as you learn what you can and can’t do with it. In this way you start to develop your own style as well as reducing your stress levels. 

No bones about it!

Art is fun as well as great therapy, so don’t dismiss it as something you could never do. Many folk have missed out on the pleasures of being creative because they “didn’t have an artistic bone in their body”. Luckily for you, you don’t need bones, artistic or otherwise. You have a sense of touch, you can see things around you, and if you can pick up a pencil and make a mark on paper you are all set to go. 

Give art a try and discover it has many benefits. 

Learning Art Is Like Learning To Ride A Bike

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Can you remember the first time you tried to ride a bike? you wobbled and fell off, wobbled and fell off ….and how uncertain you were about riding near others?

Remember how good it felt when you were able to defy gravity and stay upright? You do remember? Good! Because learning art is much like that, and just as rewarding once you have mastered the basics, you just have to keep trying.

Unfortunately many people don’t see art as anything like riding a bike and because of that they miss out!

Comments such as “I can’t draw to save my life”, or “I haven’t got an artistic bone in my body” are equivalent to saying “I’m no good at riding a bike” – when you haven’t tried to master the basics.

Art has many benefits

So what are the benefits of being creative and doing something artistic? How about greater self-esteem, reduced stress, improved mental health and it can be fun – are they worth giving art a try?

What’s the best way to start?

Start with the help of a good tutor.

I was one of the lucky ones where my family loved nothing better than cutting and sticking, collaging old magazines and making things out of recycled bits and bobs. That was longer than I care to remember lol.

But I went on to do art at degree level and then onto teaching in many areas of well-being. Soo I can see the benefits and hear all of the excuses as mentioned but the analogy of ‘easy as learning to ride a bike’ is true. everyone can find a nique in a creative way! sewing, knitting, painting etc…..

I saw batik painting on my travels and was intriqued to find out how it was done, so there a seed of intrique was planted and I learnt the techniques …as easy as riding a bike :-).

How do I start? Well you could splash out on all the tools and a teach-yourself book, but from my experience a better way is to find a class. There you can borrow the tools you need, get guidance, learn the techniques and be inspired and encouraged to grow your skills. In other words, you can learn the hard way on your own, or the stress free way along with an expert teacher.

Follow this kind of introduction to art and you get to make something beautiful. At the very least it will be a fun day out. Actively doing art will also bring the health benefits, we touched on earlier.

Barbara Meek – Feltworld -CreativeArts.co.uk

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Barbara 🙂

Heart Felt Love

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Barbara creating a Batik design based on hearts

Expressing myself through art has been my saviour during this past year of lockdowns and social distancing.

The artist Henri Matisse had the right idea when he said,

“Look at life with the eyes of a child”.

I am finding this quote to be so helpful, trying not to think too deeply about the troubling situation we find ourselves in but instead to notice the beautiful things around me, noticing the silence, the birds singing, appreciating the buds on the trees and the new life of the bulbs peeping through the soil, snow, frost, fun and relaxing. And for me, especially trying to see the positives instead of hearing the negatives…much like a child does. Matisse’s quote relates to his art and I wholeheartedly agree with him… art is definitely my therapy, my way of releasing tension, my love of creating is also my way of giving something back to society and is to share what I am absolutely passionate about and love to share with adults and children1

Too often we overthink things as adults do! we decide we aren’t artistic, we have been told we are not creative because parents are not creative, or a teacher make one negative comment so we often never bother to try again for along time…if ever, and I speak from experience! But to never try is to miss out on one of the greatest joys of life, that of expressing ourselves creatively…..it may just be by doodling or decorating but have fun :-).

Of course, you might find yourself a bit disappointed the first time you try to do something creative or pick up a paintbrush, especially if you expect to create a perfect work of art at your first attempt. I had the same feeling when I started to learn to drive, disastrous attempt lol but that is for another day! But I didn’t give up at the first hurdle!

Art isn’t just about painting, and it isn’t just about turning out pretty pictures. I find that doing art has a tremendous benefit in itself – a kind of therapy that uplifts my spirit. You can find the same uplifting experience in dance, music, sculpture, and many more creative activities.

My creative pleasure comes from using texture and colour in various art media – you’ll have seen on my website how I work in four different media, each of which has its beautiful characteristics.

Using Batik To Create A Heart Design On Cotton Cloth

So what is it about creating art that is so good for the soul?

Art can be a great stress reliever. To spend time away from all the things you have to do and instead devote time to something you want to do allows you to forget those stresses and relax. Reducing stress isn’t the only benefit of art. A pleasant distraction from things that worry us is always good for mental wellbeing and reduces depression.

Being immersed in a creative pastime can be like meditation. And at the end of it, you have that sense of satisfaction because you achieved something.

Start with baby steps

If you’ve ever watched a child paint, you’ll have seen how immersed they are in their artwork. It doesn’t matter that their trees look like lollipops or their people look like matchstick men. Many a mature artist has deliberately set out to achieve the same thing!

Matisse was talking sense when he suggested we look at life as a child.

Some tips to help you start with art:

1. Be kind to yourself – you are starting on an exciting journey, and there’s no rush
2. You don’t need to spend a fortune – student quality is okay (but avoid very cheap quality materials that could put you off)
3. You don’t need dozens of colours – you can mix pretty much anything from red, yellow, and blue!
4. Look at art in various styles and several different media – art galleries are closed for visiting but always open online.

Enjoy your artistic journey and all the benefits it will bring.

Wool In Many Colours

How sweet is this young lamb!

Have you ever looked at the variety of different breeds of sheep in the fields as you drive or walk by? But more to the point the colour of them? what colour comes to mind? The chances are you will picture a white woolly creature gambolling about in the sunshine like the one above. You may also remember seeing the odd black lamb as well, but in England we see mainly shades of white sheep with the occassional brown or black

As a feltmaker I use mostly dyed fleece in my work because this is what makes me buzz, see my bowls below. But some artists prefer the natural look and wouldn’t touch colour.

Dyes add to the range of colours

So how do you get from that natural palette to the colours you find in a many felted pieces of art or clothing? No prizes for guessing dyes of course.

Dyes can be natural or synthetic. Natural dyes derived from various plant material can give a range of rich colours. Add to that the great variety of colours from synthetic dyes and the colour palette available to the modern felt maker becomes quite extensive.

Colourful bowls made using merino fibres and silk fibres

Felt making is an absorbing and creative art, and like a traditional artist who mixes his paint colour palette you can also mix and blend fleece to create any number of colours. Incorporating a variety of breeds and other fibre within the work is very exciting. 

Mixing the colours

To mix different wool colours you need to card the fibres. Carding aligns the wool fibres ready for applying to the piece you are making. Carding is done with paddles covered with lots of small pins – a bit like the brush you might use to groom a dog. As seen here, dog brushes work well for carding.  

Carding wool to add to the colour range

By repeatedly pulling the wool between two carding paddles, the wool fibres become aligned. And if you start with three different colours, carding will blend the coloured fibres to give a beautiful blend of colours. For example, white and blue carded together will give a paler blue. This is an ideal way to represent skies if you are making a wet felted picture but I would also add other colour within this. I take inspiration from nature but also from looking at artists who inspire me.

If you would like to try your hand at feltmaking. You do not need a huge amount of colours to start feltmaking, just two blues, two yellows, two reds and black and white are good bases to start with. From these you can achieve a good range with the blending technique you will create many variations of colours. This is ideal if you are starting with felt making, as it avoids spending a fortune when you start. 

Colourful bags, scarf, needle felted robin and a bowl

To see what you can make from fluffy woolly felted fibres. Browse the Feltworld Gallery page, for inspiration to get started and consider a felt making kit and online tuition all available in my Feltworld Shop.  Felt making is a creative art and creativity is good for the soul. Felted items can be wearable or to adorn the home and I love creating both.

If you would like to know more about the beginners level of Feltmaking do take a look at the above links.

Happy felting 

Barbara

Needle felting a hare using lamb's wool fibres

Needle Felted Hare – Harry

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Needle felting is fun. Here is a hare, made from fluffy lamb’s wool fibres.

Needle felting is finally getting more publicity and instead of being called a craft, it is classed as a valid art form. Needle felting is gaining a reputation as a fun activity for ages over 10 years, who would have guessed that sculpting wool fibres into an animal with a sharp needle would have been possible!

Needle felting is fun, for-instance, It is easy to learn. Whether on a course or by purchasing a kit, these are accessible to buy on the high street or from sites like mine. You learn how to sculpt wool fibres to create animals or even pictures. Be aware that the sharp needle are not for little hands or paws, the specialist needle is called a barbed needle for a reason.

I have a variety of Kits available to view via the link or I can create a custom built kit to your specification, on request.

My personal favourites are the hares, then dogs and cats. foxes, owls and birds lol, all of them really! Many people on my courses create a woolly replica of their dog and achievable once you have learnt the basics. The technique looks quite vicious but with tuition you will find it to be great fun as the fibres form into a sculptured shape before your eyes. Using this needle to stab the wool fibres it will knit and interlock them together to create the 3-dimensional sculpted animals. People will not believe that you made it from a mass of fluffy fibres.

Needle felting a hare is fun. The technique is much easier than you may think, beginners welcome.

Firstly, the only way to really learn a skill is by actually having a stab at it, pardon the pun! I prefer to attend a course to learn the basic’s. Secondly, there are, however, people who prefer to learn from a kit and remotely.

You will find more examples of these animals and needle felted pictures plus my courses via this needle felting link: course

I have written previously about needle felting here: needle felt animals

Gift vouchers and kits also make fabulous presents.

New Courses Dates: July – September

Courses resume on the 10th of July. Following strictly to the government guidelines. Starting-10th July – Numbers will be limited to 4 people maximum. I will wear a mask, but will mainly be demonstrating from a 3 metre distance. How will it work? social distancing at 2 meters apart (although the government have relaxed the distance to 1 metre). Teaching semi outside in; a large a marquee for the first 6 – 8 weeks. Maximum 4 people Downstairs toilet – Sanitised after use. Self-service refreshments – Sanitised areas. Face masks are compulsory.

All of the dates are subject to getting a minimum of 2 – 4 people on any date.

1. Friday 10th July – Batik
2. Saturday 11th July – Needle Felting – (Only 1 place left)
3. Sunday 12th July – Wet Felting: Pictures, bags, scarves etc
4. Friday 17th July – Feltmaking ALL
5. Saturday 18th July – Needle Felting
6. Wednesday 22nd July –  Any Felting – (2 places left)
7. Saturday 25th July any Feltmaking
8. Sunday  26th July – Batik 
9. Saturday 1st August – Anything feltmaking and more….www.feltworld.co.uk

Poppy is the goofy hare!

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Creativity Is Therapy

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Creativity is a therapy to me during these very strange times!

Unless you spent March hiding in a cave somewhere, you will be living through the COVID-19 epidemic like the rest of us. Chances are you’ll also be one of the millions of people worldwide who are keeping calm and carrying on life under these important lock down conditions. Let’s get this over with!

I find that Creativity is a big therapy and this works for me.

The image is called: Hanging around until C-19 has passed!

Painting with wool

So what do you do when you can’t go out for a coffee, restaurant, pub or for anything that is non-essential? Why not use the opportunity to be creative at home? Jump in a try a new craft while you have time?

Keep calm and craft

Keep calm and craft is my moto in my artisan business. Whist staying positive and busy works wonders for my mental health.

Anyway, I have so many projects to choose from to complete and start on that my mind boggles, which activity do I start first! Forging ahead I have worked on completing half finished projects since the beginning of March.

I know have a more extensive online SHOP on my website which is growing. Also a range of felt making kits suitable for adults and children. Having completed pieces I am selling them in my SHOP.

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  Student’s doggie

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  Student’s lovable pooch

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Felt Creations – Pictures, bags, slippers, scarves and needle felted animals.
Adults and children’s parties and workshops

Tie dyeing workshops -July/August 2020

Creative Kits

The kits can be purchased from my online shop either by going to the Shop section of the navigation or by clicking the link I’ve added to the home page. You’ll also notice that gift vouchers have been extended from 6 months to 12 months to allow time for the epidemic to subside and life to return to normal. Hopefully, it won’t take anywhere near that long – but let’s not tempt fate!

I have also started work on making online training courses for those of you who would like to see a demonstration of how to use a particular kit. Youtube

Gift Vouchers

This past month has not all been fun and games for Feltworld. Understandably, course bookings are down due to the restrictions, but at least if you can’t get out to the shops to buy something special for a friend or relative, see gift vouchers which will give a special person something to look forward to when things calm down.

I took this picture in France
Another disappointment was having to postpone the felt making teaching retreat in France that I was due to lead this summer.
Oh well, there’s always next year! If interested, please enquire.

On-line tutoring. I have started making online training courses for those of you who would like to see a demonstration of how to start a particular kit.

My workshops are held around the Stafford area ST19, as wellthroughout the Midlands and worldwide on enquiry. If you have any enquires please ask via www.feltworld.co.uk

Links: www.Instagram.com/Barbara_Feltworld

https://www.facebook.com/www.feltworld.co.uk/

www.Pinterest.com/Barbara-Feltworld

Happy New Year 2020

January is a time for resolutions, goals, Intentions…and planning what I would like to do in my business.

Barbara Batik Painting in Bali

My new A5 diary in front of me is quite exciting if I’m honest and as I fill up with my planned workshop dates for the next few months and not forgetting to pencils in family and social time I am aware that the start of this year is going to see many changes for Feltworld :-).

Batik painting is a really exciting technique to learn; for adults and children. I will teach you to create a design on to paper, first choosing your own design source or If you need help with this then have books and handouts to inspire.

You can ring me or email me to discuss your design beforehand if you would like.

Then transfer this to 100% cotton material. Stretch this over a frame.

Use the hot beeswax and then paint batik dyes on to the cotton cloth. Once this is done we iron out the wax.

Children’s Batik parties available 11 years plus

See: www.feltworld.co.uk

I wish you a Happy New Year and hope to see you in 2020

Feltmaking & Batik Painting Workshops

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My summer so far:

Well this week’s heat wave has been a challenge, although a beautiful start to the summer holidays and time to spend in the garden or prepare for the holidays. But I have been working away throughout with doors and windows wide open. I did have to stop at one point as my brain had had enough of trying to concentrate for too long on my designs. That and promoting feltmaking & batik painting creative workshops etc., but I am in no means complaining… long may the summer last.

At this point I want to just say, I am an artist and not a writer and am quite new to the world of Blogging. I am constantly told that it is sooo important to blog but a fog comes over me every time so I asked myself the question below that I hear from people in conversation, so I am briefly touching on, ”What do you want to achieve when attending a creative work”? Please bear with me and suggest things that you would like to see from Feltworld. Some tips and comments would help but please no business marketing!

Questions to ask

The most common questions to people are:

What do you want to achieve when attending a creative workshop in feltmaking & batik painting?

The person who participates in a creative activity usually joins me as they have an interest in the arts and crafts, have always wanted to learn but never had the time or opportunity to have some time out just for themselves. It often takes someone else to do the nudging who buys them a gift voucher to attend one of my days …then they are on the road to wanting to be more creative. Here are a few examples of what can be made and I have videos on my website …more coming very soon.

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  Student’s lovable pooch

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  Student’s doggie

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  Sad hare day

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  Student’s batik painting

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  Me Batiking

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  Batik for Granddaughter

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  Landscapes-Half Day

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  Children’s Parties

Fancy having a relaxing experience & create something for yourself?

The common thing that takes place with people I find is they get great pleasure in the whole making process, it is great to watch peoples faces as they concentrate and go silent in the making process. The chatter is vibrant and upbeat for at least the first hour but then the serious design work and emersion in to the process begins. This is when I quietly step back, watch and guide ..make a cup of tea and take a few photographs/videos.

I provide a whole day experience so as people can just turn up and enjoy the experience without worrying about making a packed lunch and all materials, cake and a light lunch are provided so you just have to bring yourself and a few design ideas, just be open minded and have a fun day, the bonus is that you’ll learn something new, be with like minded people and leave with a fabulous unique piece of artwork.

My students often comment on how they can put aside everyday worries and enjoy a relaxing day creating something unique – many describe their time with me as therapeutic as well as a bit of escapism from everyday life, time to indulge in a bit of me time!

My Creative Experiences

On a personal note, being creative has a strong effect on my life and basically makes me feel good, oh how I can lose myself when I am designing alone and allow myself that rare creative day. I also attend workshops to keep my skills updated with new techniques, and to have fun of course! It simply has to be done doesn’t it :-).

But I love to help create memories for people and be involved in their creative journey, I really enjoy sharing my skills, meeting people and hearing their stories along the way. What is there not to love when teaching subjects that make people happy.

My most popular Feltmaking class is felt pictures where students create a beautiful landscape picture using either the wet felt or needle felt technique. They can even combine the two! 

I run half day and full day experiences, give talks to groups on my International creative travel experiences -see here for more information: https://www.feltworld.co.uk/rug-making-in-turkey as well as running children’s parties and creative hen parties….oh these are fun!

My workshop gift vouchers can be found here but please contact me if you have any questions: https://www.feltworld.co.uk/gift-vouchers

A few dates for yourdiary or please do follow me on social media to see more information.

Feltmaking-pictures or animals: 9^th,18^th,, 29^th  August and more

Batik painting- 28^th August 4^th August 10^th August  17^th August,8^th September

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Batik painting

Barbara x