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Needle Felted Portraits: The Hare with Helen Hammond

NEW for 2027 another exciting and inspiring workshop from Helen in her Needle-felting series .... (and one we've been hoping for a while now) - a Needle felted version of our adorable native Hare.

Event Date

14 March 2027

12:00 AM

This event will also happen on the following dates:

Sunday 14 Mar 2027
Friday 08 Oct 2027

£ 80

Description

Join Helen for a lovely day being guided through how to make this much loved countryside icon using the needle felting process. Your piece will have a slightly sculpted low relief appearance, subtly enhancing the natural features of the Hare. 

Whatever your ability, Helen will provide you with tools, materials, knowledge and guidance to create your own piece over the day, and the Hare will then be mounted in a special box frame, for a really professional finish.

You will be using a variety of natural wool fibres and Helen will teach you all about needle felting and how to blend your fibre colours. You will be using specialist needle felting needles (not sewing needles) for this purpose. These specialist tools/ needles are designed to entangle, compact, control and shape the soft carded wool fibres into firm felted pieces. It is a slow and very therapeutic process.

All reference images will be provided and will form an important part of your working process.  This course is suitable for all abilities including beginners. This is a dry felted process and a 'clean' method of working. No aprons or gloves are required.  However, please bring plasters!

(Helen is putting finishing touches to her final example piece - photo coming soon).

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