401 Fabulous Felt & Nuno-Felt Hats: So Many Hats and Only One Head!
401 Fabulous Felt & Nuno-Felt Hats: So Many Hats and Only One Head!
Dawn loves making hats and cannot wait to share her passion with you. She likes to think of hats as wearable works of art, small felt sculptures in fact. During your felt exploration, there will be ample time for experimentation, as well as inspiration. You will create fabulous felt and nuno-felt hats through the wet-felting process. You will focus on techniques, patterns, and concepts using both open and closed resists (and some using multiple resists) to design our millinery creations.
Whether you are brand new to felting or looking to expand your skills, this workshop offers an exciting dive into 3D construction, shaping, and surface design. You will love the artistic possibilities, with functionality as an added bonus.
Such a dilemma – so many hat styles and only one head! Which style will you choose? Fun, whimsical, classic? Problem solved – perhaps, all of the above in our time together!
Enrollment Status
Open
Experience Level
Open to All
Maximum Class Size
12
Materials Fee
$20 covers 3 reusable hat patterns/templates, written Instructions, plastic resist materials
Student Supplies
19-21 micron Merino wool top.
Lightweight silks
Several old bath size towels
Bubble wrap (small bubbles)
Olive oil soap or your favorite soap for felting
Plastic bucket
Pool noodle
Waterproof apron
Cloth wig head in your head size
Water sprinkler bottle
Sewing kit to include: sharp pointy scissors, sewing needle, thread, stainless-steel straight pins/quilting pins, and a tape measure, black permanent (Sharpie) marker
Pantyhose, or if you have an old t-shirt – snip some long strips from that as they make great stretchy ties to keep your hat bundle tied securely in the rolling process.
Optional embellishments: vintage cotton doilies, silk fibers, dyed silk hankies, and other embellishing fibers, cool buttons, brooches, feathers, etc.
Homework
None
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Instructor
Dawn Edwards
Instructor Bio
Dawn Edwards is a felt artist/tutor. She sells her work under the label ‘Felt So Right’ and teaches within the USA and internationally. Dawn’s award winning felt art has appeared in museums, exhibitions, magazines, and books. To name a few: Worldwide Colours of Felt', 'FELT' Magazine, International Feltmakers Association ‘Felt Matters’ journals, ‘Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot’, Mad Hatters Society calendar, and Fiber Art Now magazine.
