Fun and Fabulous Felt Bag with Dawn Edwards

About Fun and Fabulous Felt Bag with Dawn Edwards

In this fast-paced half-day class, we will create a small wet-felted bag. This bag is the perfect size to tuck your cell phone, a credit card and a lip balm, for a night at the theater or a concert, and those outings where you don’t want to carry a large bag.
This class is a great intro into wet-felting. Some techniques that you will learn include the making of a strong felt cord (for your shoulder strap), and how to make a seamless, hollow form by wet-felting around a resist. Felting around a resist is the foundation for creating hats, slippers, garments, etc. Using the techniques learned in this class, you will be able to design larger bags for future use. Join Dawn Edwards for this class and walk away with not just a bag, but a piece of wearable art created with your own hands.

Materials, Equipment, and Supplies the Student Must Bring to Class

- 2 old bath size towels
- Mild soap or regular Dawn dish soap (no Oxy or bleach formulas).
- A plastic bucket or beach pail for water
- A Ballbrause or laundry water sprinkler (I will have a few to share if you don’t have one)
- Bubble wrap with small bubbles…2 ft. wide x 6 ft. long.
- 2-3 Stretchy ties (I snip long strips from an old t-shirt, or the legs from an old pair of pantyhose (used to secure your bundle for rolling).
- Pool noodle (you will only need half the length, so snip in two if easier for traveling.

Materials Fee (to be paid directly to the instructor) and Kit Description

$40 - includes beautifully dyed variegated Merino wool top (there will be a warm and a cool colorway to choose from), embellishing fibers, template/pattern/resist, and written instructions.

Homework

Gather supplies