Drawing with Felt & Thread

$134.00

Sunday February 8, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Erin MacKeen

Materials Fee: $20 (paid directly to the Instructor)
Students: 10

Explore how to create fibre drawings using needle felting, stitching, and beading to create your own images on a selection of wool surfaces.

You'll learn how to prepare wool roving, including methods for creating custom colours with natural dyes for needle felting. Various embroidery stitches that lend well to a drawing approach will be covered as well as ways to add details and embellishments for textured 3D pieces.

We'll end the day discussing edge finishings and ways to display your completed work.

Sunday February 8, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Erin MacKeen

Materials Fee: $20 (paid directly to the Instructor)
Students: 10

Explore how to create fibre drawings using needle felting, stitching, and beading to create your own images on a selection of wool surfaces.

You'll learn how to prepare wool roving, including methods for creating custom colours with natural dyes for needle felting. Various embroidery stitches that lend well to a drawing approach will be covered as well as ways to add details and embellishments for textured 3D pieces.

We'll end the day discussing edge finishings and ways to display your completed work.

Erin an artist, educator, and professional tarot reader who’s integrated practice is an exploration of care: how we collectively tend to each other, become better resourced, share tools for self-discovery, and cultivate the safety and support needed to be our authentic selves.

Using digital illustration and natural specimens for image-making, Erin’s work is screen printed on textiles as a foundational pattern for further handwork such as embroidery and beading. These works are both decorative and “useable” objects that explore ideas of death, rest, and nature as a form of care. Erin is currently experimenting and researching natural dyeing, sculpture, and knitting as additional medias and practices in her work.