Easter Egg Felting Workshops

Easter is just weeks away so I have created these beautiful, soft felt Easter Eggs to share with you.

Easter Eggs come in all shapes and sizes, full of chocolate or not, but these delicate beauties make the most wonderful decoration for Easter Day, to hang on Spring branches for your Easter table, piled up in a basket or hidden, alongside their chocolate cousins, around the garden. 

Not only do they look and feel wonderful - they also are really creative and very good fun to make and leaving you with a great sense of creative achievement.

I am offering Easter Egg Felting Workshops at The Atelier from this Friday and throughout the next few weeks until Easter Sunday.

The workshops are open to adults and children (age 8 and over).  Places are limited to just  six per workshop and  they last two hours, you will have the opportunity to work with the Felt in many colours and make an Easter Egg (or two) to take home and keep.  

All the wool, Polystyrene eggs and needles are provided together with lashings of tea and home-made cake...have a look here to book your place for just £20.

I have also been asked to host a Easter Egg Felting Workshop exclusively at  The Barn Gallery, Church Farm, Kington Langley - so if you live in that area and would like to bring your children along to this exclusive workshop - find out more here. 

Roses roses everywhere!

What an amazing morning we had.  A big thank you to the lovely ladies who joined me at the Royal Crescent Hotel for the first Charity Rose Crochet session.  Many of them came as a result of the feature in this weeks Bath Chronicle  and the Bath Magazine which just goes to show the power of publicity! It was a good job they came because otherwise I would have had to eat all the delicious handmade shortbread biscuits myself!  

And when I returned home there were a pile of roses waiting for me on the doormat sent from wonderful ladies who have been busy at home making roses for this great cause.  

Next week we are gathering at the rather swish  Carluccio's in Milsom Place and you are all welcome to join this growing movement of happy knitters and crocheters.  There will be a warm welcome, free wool and hooks and plenty of refreshments to keep us going.  It is happening on Wednesday 12th March from 10:00 - 13:00. Let's fill our city with wool and make Bath Fashion Week 2014 one to remember.  Every rose we make raises 10p for the Kids Company charity so make a rose and make a difference!  

Mothers Day Pin Cushion

Here's a little treat you can make for mothers day and all it takes is some colourful  felt, a felting needle and that very special tea cup that you never use to drink from!  

I'm always on the look out for old china I can use in my mosaic work and as a result I seem to have collected  a wide range of odd tea cups over the years.  On my journey through second hand shops, car boot sales and vintage flea markets I've managed to accumulate a wide array of cups too beautiful to break!  Indeed one shop I frequent even refused to sell me a tea set unless I promised not to break it for mosaic....she knows me well! I made the promise and scurried off with a fabulous set of tiny blue tea cups!  

So years later I'm looking at these wonderful tea cups wondering what to do with them when it suddenly struck me! Pin cushions....of course! So I set about gathering up my felting wool and laying it all out on my table top before selecting some of the much loved china and contemplating all the beautiful things I could do! Choosing the colours was the hardest part because there are so many delicious choices of wool.   I have to keep telling myself that sometimes less is more!  Once I have felted the main design and filled the cup with wool I decided to embellish some with a little basic embroidery. I'm not the worlds best embroiderer but I still had a lot of fun playing!

I think the results are stunning and they make the perfect mothers day gift.  

If you would like to spend a couple of hours in felting heaven making one of these beauties then March is your lucky month because I shall be hosting several workshops just for these.  You can book here or alternatively you could give the gift of learning a new skill by giving your mum a voucher to come on a workshop herself...or even better you can come together!