🐦 Needle-felting Birds Workshop – Paint with Wool & Create Textile Art
Discover the Joy of Needle-felting
Join us for a Needle-felting Birds Workshop and learn the relaxing art of needle-felting – also known as dry felting or painting with wool. Using soft, lustrous merino wool tops in glowing colours and special barbed needles, you’ll gently layer fibres into a backing fabric to create your very own bird design. It’s a bit like painting by numbers – but with wool! 🎨(learn more via the International Feltmakers Association)✨
Once your bird picture is complete, you can add finishing touches with hand embroidery or even try free-motion embroidery by machine to give extra detail and texture.
🧵 Who is this workshop for?
This textile art class is suitable for beginners and experienced makers alike. Needle-felting is extremely calming and mindful, making it a wonderful alternative if you’ve found wet-felting too physical or tiring. All levels are welcome – no drawing or sewing skills required!
🌈 What you’ll learn
During this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover:
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✨ How to transfer your chosen design to the backing fabric
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🪡 The correct way to hold and use barbed felting needles
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🎨 Techniques for layering and blending merino wool fibres to build up colour
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🧶 How to add texture using yarns and stitches
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🖼️ Options for enhancing your work with hand embroidery
📍 Course arrangements
Everything you need is provided – all felting materials, tools, and inspiration images. You can also bring your own picture (A5 size works best). Many participants love recreating a favourite bird, pet, or flower in wool!
Why join?
Needle-felting is more than a craft – it’s a mindful, creative escape that lets you switch off, slow down, and create something beautiful. By the end of the workshop, you’ll leave with a unique needle-felted bird picture to treasure. 🐦💙
Needle-felting is part of our wider programme of Creative Textiles Workshops, where you can explore hand or machine embroidery, print-making, mixed-media textiles and more.
