Felting with Jan Stuart
Needle Felting
The Retreat Felting Session will feature this class with Jan Stuart:
Saturday all day and Sunday morning
In this class you will be provided with a 16” square piece of felt on which you will create a work of art. We will go over tips and tricks of cutting and blending fibers to needle felt colorful and dynamic flowers, leaves, trees, hillsides, sky and more. We will work with different fibers (mostly alpaca) and talk about different needles to use to create a wide range of effects. Your final piece can be a beautiful piece of wall art, a chair pad or sewn into a pillow cover.
Skill level: Some basic needle felting skills will be helpful.
Homework: Think about an image you would like to create and bring a photo, if possible.
About Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart has been a fiber artist for more than 40 years. Her passion for fiber began with knitting in grade school, followed by crocheting and weaving in her college years. When llamas entered Jan’s life in 1990, wet felting was her main focus, which switched to needle felting a few years later.
She has taught classes and done many demos at llama conferences, sheep & wool festivals and farmer’s markets. Selling her work at shows and by word of mouth.
After becoming interested in green burials, her main focus has become custom burial strouds, combining her concern for the environment with her creativity.