Painting with Fiber
Adult Course | Registration opens 3/4/2025 7:00 AM MST
We will begin by learning to wet felt to create your canvas. Then learn to needle felt your design with colored roving. Start with carded fiber and go home with a beautifully painted piece of fabric.You will learn the basics of felting a flat piece of felt in the wet felting method and adding decoration through needle felting and/ or wet felting.
You do not need prior experience to enjoy this class. Wear comfortable clothes that you do not mind getting wet.
1.) Practice technique on sample material
2.) Create your "canvas"
3.) Begin needle felting design in place
4.) Wet felt to create solid piece of fabric
- Images for inspiration if you would like to do something different than the instructor.
Alicia Marshall
Alicia Marshall is in the business of raising happy alpacas and making the best hand felted products possible from their fiber. Her ranch, Moondance Alpacas is located on 35 acres in the foothills of beautiful Littleton, Colorado. They made the strategic decision early on that instead of breeding alpacas, they would raise alpacas for their incredible fiber, then design and produce exquisite felted products from it. Moondance Alpacas is a company that strongly believes in using natural resources to create artistic, functional goods with exceptional craftsmanship. The art of felting is something Alicia is extremely passionate about and enjoys teaching others the craft as well.
www.moondancealpacas.com