Sue Pearl is a felt maker making felt art pieces for craft galleries and running felt making workshops in schools and in adult education centres as well as felt parties for children for Christmas and birthdays. She also gives lectures and talks with demonstrations on the incredible history and the craft of felt making. She has a very comprehensive DVD which is available through us, covering various style of feltmaking and projects.
Making felt is a very ancient craft skill. Felt is used in many places in the world for such diverse items as shoes, tents, carpet, fine clothing, art objects, hats and jewellery. It is such a versatile craft that it will lend itself to many different treatments and new uses for it are being discovered by a new generation of artists and craftsmen.
More about Sue Pearl
She is a tutor for Oxford Adult Learning and has her own felt making class schedule for classes run in my workshop at my home in Oxfordshire. To get more information on these please contact me on or go to my Studio Workshop page.www.feltbetter.com/
some of the friends that sue makes in class:
Lorna really loves working with crazy patchwork to create wonderful pincushions. They are almost too good to use. She shares with us helpful tips on colour choice, texture choice with ribbons and lace, use of buttons beads and threads, as well as giving you guidelines to work with for her pincush...
Gail loves working with fleece as it is very forgiving since it doesn't fray, is soft and cuddly and comes in a wide variety of colours.
As well as cushions, you could use fleece to create the stockings that you see hanging in the background. And all Gail's patterns comes with a full alphabet,...
Gail started the love affair with glitterfelt when she created her Unicorn cushions, but then went on to use it in so many more of her projects.
The simplest way is to use it as fused appliqué; but then Gail thought maybe she could find a way of using the felt, so that the end result wasn’t so ...
