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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 and 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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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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Graduate Story from Hand Embroidery Graduate Elaine Jamie-Rose Campbell

Hand Embroidery SS3

Elaine Jamie-Rose Campbell

“The course invited me into previously unexplored areas. I found so much potential! This wasn’t only in the techniques and processes taught, the real richness was in the creative curiosity that was developed. It was a pathway to discovering how original work is created to a professional standard.”
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A graduate story by knitting student Sarah Pond

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Sarah Pond

“I felt by the end of the course that I had found my “style” and that my designs were beginning to reflect this. I plan to continue onto the Skill Stage 4 course and, alongside this, begin to look more seriously at how I might develop a small business, making my own designs.”
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Hand Embroidery SS3

Louise Kidd

“I knew that to truly succeed, I needed to step up my game. I struggled with self-confidence and knew I had to push myself beyond my comfort zone by experimenting with different threads, techniques, and even colour schemes. The course’s built-in flexibility enabled me to challenge myself from the very beginning.”
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Patchwork & Quilting SS2

Rachel Church-Moore

“The course was everything I had hoped for – and more! I’d really not expected the journey of personal discovery it would take me on and how much it would encourage me to look at the world through fresh eyes. In particular, it ignited and nurtured an inner respect for colour and aspects of modern art.”
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Textiles graduate Elena Beinborn pictured with one her assessment pieces that she described as fodder for the creative soul

Textiles SS3

Elena Beinborn

“This course taught me that self-care by immersing yourself in something you are passionate about is invaluable. It’s not only good for self-esteem and confidence, but also for mental health. I have learned through encouragement from my tutor and fellow students that I am worthy of calling myself a textile artist.”
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Lynn Hall with her beautiful knitted blanket designs

Knitting SS3

Lynn Hall

“The course has helped me learn how to research, consider and plan the construction of patterns and many of the skills are transferable to other forms of design, textiles and craft. I would strongly recommend the courses offered by the SST whatever your level of expertise or area of interest. There is a lot of support from all of the tutors and also other students.”
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Chitra Mandanna with her award winning patchwork and quilted piece created on our course

Patchwork & Quilting SS4

Chitra Mandanna

“The course has really helped me improve my skills and learn several new techniques which I have applied in my works that I entered into the competition this year. These works are a lot different in style, design and techniques compared to my earlier ones and I would give that credit to the course and my tutor, Debbie.”
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Hand Embroidery Skill Stage 2 graduate pictured with one her own hand embroidery creations.

Hand Embroidery SS2

Judith Williams

For anymore who is passionate about hand embroidery and considering thinking about developing their skills or has an interest in hand embroidery and wishes to learn more, I thoroughly recommend enrolling with School of Stitched Textiles.
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Work from Textiles SS3 Graduate, Lucy Brown

Textiles SS3

Lucy Brown

“I have improved my skills and my confidence has grown. I would highly recommend the course to anyone who has a genuine interest in all areas of textiles. The course was well resourced and the time scales were easily achievable. My tutor was incredibly supportive and professional throughout and I looked forward to the feedback knowing that I would get an honest and constructive response to the work I was producing. If you are considering an online course where practical work is the focus and in an area that you enjoy – then this course is definitely one you should consider. I miss the work but know I have improved as a practising artist as a result of completing it all.”
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Embroidery graduate story by Maia O'Neill

Hand Embroidery SS3

Maia O'Neill

“The thing I appreciated most was how the modules pushed me into learning types of embroidery I’d been too intimidated to try: Drawn thread! Goldwork!! I was surprised to discover a new favourite in hardanger. It’s so satisfying and meditative to work. I based one of my final projects on it – a sampler of Quaker quotes for my beloved grandma, Edna.”
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