Woolly: Wet Felting

This two day Contemporary Felt Making Workshop is an opportunity to extend your individual creativity by applying design principles to your work.

Saturday, 18th September, 10am to 4pm AND Sunday, 19th September, 9.30am to 3.30pm.

Colleen will guide you on how to enhance your ideas by applying colour and using the techniques of resists, inlays or embellishments to create texture into the structure of the felt. You will be able to choose your colours from a generous selection of hand-dyed merino wool and luxury silk fabrics and fibres.

The focus will be to create a wall piece of your own composition that is meaningful to you. There may also be an opportunity to try other ideas and techniques including three-dimensional felt making.

If you are ready to be challenged and inspired then this workshop with give you an insight into what makes your work unique.

At the end of this small group workshop, you will have a finished piece for your interior along with many ideas for future projects.

Colleen holds an adult tutoring qualification, has exhibited her felt work nationally and internationally with her work purchased by private collectors worldwide. If you want to know more about Colleen, check out:

https://www.nztextileexperiences.com/about

For more information contact Tanja: education@riverside.org.nz.

Book early to secure your place. Limited to 8 participants.

This workshop is proudly sponsored by the Riverside Community Trust. Please contact Tanja (education@riverside.org.nz) to discuss sponsorship options if you are struggling to meet the workshop fee.

Under alert level two, we will run workshops as per the following government guidelines:

Events can go ahead but with restrictions.

• Maximum of 50 people in a defined space
• 1 metre distancing from other people
• Even if you are fully vaccinated against covid 19 you still need to keep 1      metre apart from others
• Sign in using the Covid 19 Tracer app, and stay home if you are sick.

We have plenty of space in our hall so participants can spread out.

We will have hand sanitizer available, and if participants wish they can wear masks, but this is not compulsory.