Introduction to Needle Felting
Diana Griffiths
Tuesdays 2/5 & 2/12
11:00am – 2:00 pm
Cost: $60 + $5 Materials Fee (Scholarships Available)
Must Pre-Register by 1/29
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS AT www.graceart.org

Working with templates, wool roving, and needles make a brooch pin, coaster or a mobile. Materials provided.

Needle felting is the process of interlocking wool fibres by stabbing it with a barbed needle. The barbs catch the scales on the fibre and cause them to tangle and bind together to make patterns, images or sculptures. Roving is wool that has been washed and run through a carding machine. When carded the wool fiber is all going in the same direction. Carding is like combing in that it is taking the fiber that is in small locks and combing it all smoothly together. The carded wool comes out in a long "roving" of wool that is easy to spin into yarn. It is also fluffy and easier to felt with as well.