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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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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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Embroidery on Crochet with the creator, Crochet graduate Melissa Taylor

Crochet SS3

Melissa Taylor

“The course has really opened my mind to what I can achieve if I put my mind to it. My teacher was very supportive throughout the course giving me feedback on how to improve, and she gave me the reassurance I sometimes needed. Since joining the School of Stitched Textiles, I have put together and delivered a 10-week crochet course at a Further Education College. As the qualification I was studying is accredited, this made me believe I was good enough to do it.”
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Anne Galliot pictured with some of hand embroidery work

Hand Embroidery SS2

Anne Galliot

“The design module gave me the opportunity to unleash my inner artist! In the next two modules, my confidence shot up as I trusted by creative process more and applied it to new techniques, tried out new things, and let my creativity blossom. Before I completed the course, I would never in a million years have imagined that I would be able to create a piece such as the one I submitted for the final assessment. I am so proud of my achievements!”
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Beginner Hand Embroidery course graduate, Kirsten Shearer with her stitch sampler.

Hand Embroidery SS2

Kirsten Shearer

“The course has allowed me to be just as expressive and personal through this medium as any other. I learned new types and techniques of embroidery which I’d never even heard of, which will definitely inform future pieces of my work. Mostly though it has helped me develop a regular practice of work at home and how to be disciplined with my time.”
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Crocheted bunting by crochet graduate Eve Llewellyn

Crochet SS3

Eve Llewellyn

“This course has encouraged me to consider new possibilities for ways to monetise my skills. Up until now, I didn’t have faith in my ability to write patterns and would never have contemplated writing a pattern book in the future. I have learnt new techniques and improved the way I present my work”
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Clare Allison Patchwork and Quilting Graduate and a sample of her work

Patchwork & Quilting SS2

Clare Allison

“The most helpful part of the course has been an opportunity to develop creatively, not just through learning new patchwork and quilting techniques but through working through the whole design process from researching different artists, learning about the elements of art, to going out to take photos to manipulate into my own designs.”
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Hand Embroidery Graduate Teresa Miller

Hand Embroidery SS3

Teresa Miller

“As someone who loves studying and has been described by friends as ‘a perpetual student’, I was drawn to the accredited courses as it would give me a qualification at the end which might enable me to generate an income from something I love doing.”
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Crochet Graduate Judy Sendrove with a sample of her work

Crochet SS3

Judy Sendrove

“The course has taught me how to work through an idea, from the thought process to design, timings, and costings. I have learnt about different materials and how it can affect your choice. The course has helped me discover and push new skills and given me more confidence. It has helped me realise what kind of business I would like to create.”
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Profile Picture of Vivienne Richmond and her hand dyed yarns

Crochet SS3

Vivienne Richmond

“I am continuing with my studies at present by working on the Skill Stage 4 Hand Embroidery. My ultimate goal is to take on commissions and maybe run a few of my own workshops as I enjoy encouraging others to try stitching. Doing this course has given me the confidence – and the knowledge – to start to take steps into achieving this.”
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Graduate Story by Jan Lidgley, intermediate knitting course

Knitting SS3

Jan Lidgley

“The course gave me the opportunity to try out some new skills which I would not have touched otherwise, such as dyeing yarn and cotton material, making clay and fabric buttons, creating tassels, and intricate knitting such as lace knitting with very fine lace yarn. Exposure to so many different techniques opened my eyes to the potential to incorporate some of them in my own projects.”
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Victoria Vinten Hand Embroidery Graduate with a piece of her work.

Hand Embroidery SS3

Victoria Vinten

“I am continuing with my studies at present by working on the Skill Stage 4 Hand Embroidery. My ultimate goal is to take on commissions and maybe run a few of my own workshops as I enjoy encouraging others to try stitching. Doing this course has given me the confidence – and the knowledge – to start to take steps into achieving this.”
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