Felt Making

Skill Stage 2

Course Overview

Accredited Beginner's
Felt Making Course

Learn felting with our Skill Stage 2 online Felt course. Throughout this in-depth distance learning course, not only will you get to grips with the basics, but you’ll also become proficient in a variety of felting techniques, allowing you to create pieces to a high standard while developing your individual style and creativity.

As a City & Guilds accredited course, each module focuses on developing your existing skills, whilst also introducing you to creative new techniques, which will carefully lead you through your course syllabus to a successful conclusion. Our accredited courses are recognised for their high standards of teaching and assessment.

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Course Features

4 Modules

Work your way through key tasks for contribute towards completion of your modules

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Beginner Skill level

You don't need any Felt Making experience! We will cover all the basics, making it a perfect course for beginners

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 1 year to complete this course. Each modules takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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@maryfaitfelt - embellishes

Close Up detail, final assessment by Wendy Dawson

Felt bag, final assessment piece by Wendy Dawson

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Course Details

This beginner’s Felt Making course can be studied from anywhere in the world. You will learn by working your way through our online course materials, including video content, with full support from our dedicated expert tutors. Felting is a unique and versatile craft that offers learners the chance to get creative and easily produce practical finished pieces.

This course is designed to develop individual creativity. Whether you’re looking to learn the basics or develop existing skills, our courses allow you to express yourself, experiment and really push your own creative boundaries.

Course Modules

There are around 100-150 hours of course content split across 4 modules. Here’s what you’ll learn:

Research a chosen artist
Introduction to embroidery stitches: Line, isolated and textured stitches
Develop your own portfolio of your own experiments and designs
Experiment with ideas and images
Explore different principles of line, colour and texture
Counted embroidery basics: Blackwork, drawn thread, hardanger, counted cross stitch
Create your own sample folio containing traditional and contemporary techniques and embroidery samples
Edging and finishing techniques to add a professional looking finishing to your pieces
Complete a final assessment piece. Choose from wither a 3D functional item, a panel/hanging/quilt or a wearable art item.

Delivery & Assessment

Th felting art course is supplied as a distance learning course where course materials and tutor assessments are delivered digitally and work is returned to your tutor via digital presentation.

Your coursework will be reviewed by your tutor and periodically by an Internal Quality Assessor, to ensure the appropriate quality standard is maintained. You will be provided with written feedback in a timely fashion (usually within 10 days) and, if needed, you will be able to re-submit altered work. You can contact your tutor at any time to request your work to date be reviewed and suggestions for future progress be made.

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Course Timescales

There is around 100-150 hours of course content/materials and it is usual for students to take between 6-8 weeks to complete each module. Students can take up to 1 year to complete, however it is up to the individual student how quickly they wish to return work to their tutor for assessment.

A six-month contingency is available, if needed, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation, which would therefore extend the course life to 18 months (1.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

Our felt making course is aimed at complete beginners. If you’ve only ever made a few projects by following patterns or perhaps you’ve only just found an interest in your new hobby, then we’d recommend that you study a Skill Stage 2 course. Courses at this level have been carefully designed to not only teach new techniques, but also introduce students to conducting research into artists or designers, and eventually learn how to create their own designs.

If you have already undertaken a few of the craft basics in this area, but rarely read around your subject or have limited experience of attending courses or exhibitions then a Skills Stage 2 course is probably going to be your best bet

A Skills Stage 2 course will introduce you to the pleasures of immersing yourself in your chosen craft. Not only does this help you to develop your own style but it’s also an important way of discovering new trends and exploring favourite artists.

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