Felt Beads with Jill Ferguson June Meeting 2013

This month we welcomed Gill Ferguson to show us how to make felt brooches and necklaces. Gill brought some samples of her work and many of us remembered making a felt vase with Gill.

There were lots of oohs and aahs at the blue tit!
Gill demonstrated how to make flat felt for the brooches. Then it was suggested we cut three flower shapes
from the felt when dry, attach together with a button and a pin on the back.

After much rolling!!!!! we took our pieces of felt home to dry and turn into brooches.
After lunch Jill showed us how to make felt beads with several different variations and how to construct a necklace with the beads  including purchased beads.
The pictures below show us all rolling the felt in our hands to make the beads. It appears to be a very serene operation!

When the beads were completed we took them home to dry and construct our necklace. For those of you who have made felt know, we also went home very tired as if we had done a full workout at the gym!
It was a good fun day and all thanks go to Gill for leading the workshop.
 Hopefully at the next meeting we will see lots of completed brooches and necklaces.