2019 Woolschools

This is a fun workshop with the aim of helping participants to have the confidence to play with their crochet techniques and work in a more freeform way. Participants will make a small crochet piece without the aid of a pattern, which they could use as a key charm, bag decoration or brooch. Various techniques will be shown including bullion stitch, frills, loops and beading. ...

Students will learn how to make fingerless gloves using ‘domino’/’mitred’ modules. They will learn how to make the individual basic modules, then how to knit onto these to build up the glove, how to leave the space for the thumbhole and how to make the cuff. It will not be possible to complete the glove in the time provided, but students will be given written instructions so that they can ...

Make a beautiful natural woven wall hanging on this fun and creative workshop. Learn how to harvest willow bark fresh from a willow tree and how to make use of the beautiful textures and interesting natural features. There will be a variety of other natural materials to include in your wall hanging including wool, nettle cordage, New Zealand flax, Day Lily and Montbretia leaves. ...

Learn to wet felt merino wool into a 3-dimensional bowl-shaped container with embellishments of silk fibres, goat mohair, cotton nepps, linen threads and other surprises! ...

Make a jolly, festive tree decoration using strips of up-cycled woollen blankets. Explore the techniques of quilling and coiling whilst making these attractive decorations. Materials in many shades will be supplied ready cut to enable you to make one tree. Time permitting you may make baubles as well.  ...

We will be making one small white, brown or soft grey bunny using needle felting tools and wool and focussing on basic 3D shaping. ...

Tina Francis is working hard to 'bring bargello back' in 2019, from wall hangings to tiny brooches. If you stand still long enough she will have added bargello to the edge of your lapel! Join Tina in this one hour workshop where we will learn three different bargello stitch patterns, and stitch them onto plastic canvas which you can turn into a box when you get home from the show. A really relaxi ...

Colours and Textures on Your Blending Board. Learn to use your blending board to produce fantastic fauxlags and punis. Explore how colour and texture can be used to develop your own vision in spinning and felting. ...

Each student will create a simple, pretty braid as a warm up for producing an intriguing braid which has a twist running around the outside. It looks fiendish, but is really simple once you know how! ...

Selecting fleeces for hand spinning and yarn design: Practical, hands-on demonstration of different types and qualities of fleece with open discussion about options, opportunities, problems and solutions A brief outline of choosing fleece for purpose, including: General characteristics of different fleece types availableMarrying of fleece types to project requirementsSummary for beginners on h ...

We will look at different types of spindle, how to get going with one, how to develop your skills, and where to follow-up for more information. I’d like to show you that using a spindle is not a poor substitute for a wheel, but another way of producing good quantities of beautiful yarn, anywhere you want. ...

Students will experiment with printing using a variety of blocks on paper, fabric and felt. We will decorate a paper bag, swing luggage labels, different papers, fabric and a piece of merino felt. These pieces can be used to make cards, used in a scrap book or as a stencil for embroidery. ...