Needle Felted Garden Birds ~ 'The Robin' with Helen Hammond (low relief)

Contact

Name: Greystoke Craft Garden and Barns

Phone: 017684 83984

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.quirkyworkshops.co.uk/

Address

Greystoke
Penrith
CA11 0UT

Price Notes

9.30am – 4.30pm ish £80 inc. inc a tasty Lunch & home baking. Material Charges: £25

Direction

Just 8 mins west of M6 J40, off the A66 towards Keswick.

Details

Needle Felted Garden Birds, at Christmas . . 'The Robin' with Helen Hammond (see 'The Wren' and 'The Blue Tit' under a separate heading)

Another exciting and timely addition for 2023 from Helen Hammond in her needle-felted Birds series .... creating one of our bird tables' most frequent visitors - the 'joyful and festive' Robin

Join Helen for a lovely day being guided through how to make this beautifully detailed garden friend using the needle felting process. Once again, your piece will have a slightly sculpted low relief appearance, subtly enhancing the natural features of this characterful little bird.

Whatever your ability, Helen will provide you with tools, materials, knowledge and guidance to create your own delightful bird over the day, before applying the legs & fixing it to the 'branch'. The birds will then be mounted in a special box frame, for a really professional finish.

You will be using a variety of natural wool fibres and Helen will teach you all about needle felting and how to blend your fibre colours. You will be using specialist needle felting needles (not sewing needles) for this purpose. These specialist tools/ needles are designed to entangle, compact, control and shape the soft carded wool fibres into firm felted pieces. It is a slow and very therapeutic process.

All reference images will be provided and will form an important part of your working process. This course is suitable for all abilities including beginners. This is a dry felted process and a 'clean' method of working. No aprons or gloves are required. However, please bring plasters! 

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