Learn how to elevate your felt making with stitch to develop further surface embellishments on your felt work by incorporating hand and machine embroidery. You’ll create samplers of useful hand stitches and experiment with sewing machine stitches and free motion embroidery, to create new patterns and textures on your felts’ surfaces.

During this two day workshop weekend you will learn how to:

*Create reference samplers using a variety of hand stitches practicing the technique to create each stitch and how to adapt and apply the stitches to work freely & creatively to decorate your felt.
*Identify the pre-set stitches available on the sewing machine. Experiment with theses stitches to practice making stitched surface effects.
*Set up the machine to create free motion embroidery. Practice using the sewing machine to develop control using free motion embroidery. Practice using free motion embroidery to ‘draw’ and create surface pattern for embellishing the felt surface.
*We will work on both cotton fabrics and handmade felt to make samplers and practice the techniques.
Whilst we will make some hand made felt during the workshop, ideally you will need to bring several pieces of hand made felt you have made prior to the workshop to practice the stitch techniques on. We will discuss how to ensure your felt is suitable for stitching on with and you will have the opportunity to make sampler pieces of felt to work on too.

This workshop takes place over two days between 10am – 4:30pm Saturday, 10am – 4pm Sunday at Silversoles Studio. Alternative times are available by arrangement.
The next workshop is on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th October 2026. Can’t make the date – please contact me to discuss an alternative date to suit you /your group.