Needle Felting with Peg from “Learn Creations”
Felting with Peg Learn in the Ottawa region
Little Pumpkin- first felting toy was made during the workshop
After spending the day in Almonte, we arrived at the Blue Hen farm for a needle felting workshop presented by Peg Learn ( Learn Creations). She greeted us with a big smile, hand holding a large red dragon made from felt pieces … Surprisingly felting is much easier than it may look; everyone was given a felting needle, a foam pad and of course some colourful wool. Since we are the beginners Peg suggested that each of us make a simple Halloween pumpkin. The process is started by taking wool strands and using the needle to compress the wool together by poking it and combining into a ball. The pad is used to rest the material while using the needle. It was quite entertaining and after we got the pumpkin form down we started customizing our pumpkins in different ways. I put a French mustache on my pumpkin while others placed eyes, and/or smiles..
Peg Learn with her award winning creation from felt Dragon
It was very fun and informative and we highly recommend it as something to do while in the area. Peg also told us about her experiences in felting competitions where the winner receives many pounds of felt, which means a LOT of felting fun! And according to Peg ” It is the most fun when you can have stabbing something repeatedly and legally” … It was a great eye opening experience that made something that appeared hard quite easy to learn.
If you wish to learn felting and have really fun workshop with Peg, her contact is: www.facebook.com/learncreations.
By Jonathan K.