Focus on: NEEDLE-FELTING AND FREE-MOTION MACHINE EMBROIDERY
There are so many wonderful things I could say and show you from this workshop. It combines two highly-effective textile techniques - in one day! We have run many of these sessions now and the results are just beautiful. It provides a soft tactile surface with gentle definition.
Here's how it works:
Needle Felting into Fabric - this is how the workshop begins. If you have heard of needle-felting but know little about it, many examples that you find will be 3D needle felted - absolutely stunning but they can take a while to master and complete. Needle-felting into fabric has many favourable qualities including:
It is relatively quick - you can get results in a few hours rather than many
It is quite an affordable hobby as far as felt goes - you use far, far less fibres that wet felting
It is a little less 'finger stabby'. Stabs and puncture wounds are common in 3D felting, often artists wear a sort of gauntlet. However, 2D needle felting works into a sponge surface, and is far easier to control - with far less chance of an injury.
You can create a template drawing onto fabric first - and that is exactly how we begin!
Once you have chosen an image to use (and you can use our templates or bring your own photos/drawings) you will transfer this to fabric and then begin needle-felting. We provide a huge range of colours ot choose from and you can choose from free-choice, guidance as much as you need it, or use out instruction guides with step-by-step instructions of colours and where to add them. Holly (That's me, hi!) will demonstrate throughout and show you each stage.
After a short lunch break it's time to add the free-motion machine embroidery. As ever with our workshops you do not need ANY prior experience. The basics of threading, tension and technique are always shown to you and I can help as much as you need. Even if you haven't sewn before it DOES NOT MATTER. The way you move the fabric around the machine with free-motion is completely different to normal sewing. We have attendees who have never even used a sewing machine before.
Once your machine is set up you will add your embroidery. You can add as much or as little as you want - and you can either choose your own colours or use our step-by-step guidance notes.
And at the end of the session you'll be amazed at what you've achieved. The free-motion gives a gentle quilted appearance to the felt and the colours look just stunning. If you are interested in giving this a go, we have places available for next Friday 16th October in Driffield. And as promised, we value you - you have taken the time to read this article and as a result we would like to offer you a 20% discount for any bookings for this session taken between Thursday 8th and Thursday 15th October.* Use discount code FELTDRIF20
Read the details below to find out how our discount codes work. Can't make it? We will be running this session in another area again in early 2027. New dates to go live soon - keep an eye out for our newsletter or check out website again soon.
CRAFT COURSES BOOKINGS- Craft Courses don't currently offer us the option to set up a promotion code. So to get your discount, book your tickets as usual and then send us an email to threadandpress@gmail.com or hello@threadandpress.co.uk and quote your name, the workshop booked and offer code FELTDRIF20 We then apply a partial refund of 20% to your order (not applicable to courses purchased with a Craft Courses voucher)
EVENTBRITE BOOKINGS- use promotion code FELTDRIF20 when purchasing tickets (please ensure you do this at checkout as this cannot be applied retrospectively). This cannot be used with any other discounts and can only be used once per customer, in the timeframe as shown above.
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