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Felt Making
Skill Stage 4

Advanced Online Felt Course

Advance your felting skills and techniques with our Skill Stage 4 Felt online course. This course has been specifically designed for more experienced crafters and artists who are ready to expand on the techniques they have previously learnt to discover their own unique artistic voice and expression.  

Ideally you will have completed the Skill Stage 3 (or Level 3) Felt course or have demonstrable experience of creating a variety of different projects and pieces.

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Course Features

12 Modules

Work your way through 12 Felt Making modules each designed to teach new skills and provide a better understanding of your subject.

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Advanced Skill level

For Felters with a lot of experience and ideally has completed our Skill Stage 3 Felt Making course.

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Duration

Students are allowed up to 2 years to complete this course. Each module takes roughly 6-8 weeks to complete

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Felt design by Mary Pilsworth
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Course Details

This course consists of 12 modules which focus on getting students to develop their own style and designs, while giving students valuable professional practice. As a City and Guilds accredited course, this is a comprehensive distance learning Felting course. Not only will you teach essential techniques, you’ll also enhance your own creativity and design skills.

Course Modules

There are around 410 hours of course content and materials split across 12 modules. Here’s what you’ll learn:

  • Self chosen design project: Students chose their own design projects
  • Study the history of domestic sheep and properties of various fleeces
  • Learn transparent and bonded techniques
  • Explore different fibres: silk, paper, soluble, and animal fibres
  • Natural dye techniques: Dye, fabric paint and resist technique
  • Create pieces inspired by a contemporary designer or maker
  • Applique and finishing samples
  • Design and create your own felt art panel
  • Explore a range of specialist and advanced techniques
  • Work with Metal Sheet and thread.
  • Experimental metalwork samples along with a written and illustrated study of felting.
  • Create two extensive collections of advanced felting technique samples
  • Professional practice
  • Creation of own design and final assessment pieces

Delivery & Assessment

The 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 410 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 2 years 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, to cover unforeseen issues such as illness, upon production of supporting documentation,  extending the course life to 30 months (2.5 years). The maximum for this extra contingency time is once during the course lifetime.

Aimed At

This City and Guilds accredited Felt course is an advanced study programme aimed at crafters and artists who want to enhance their skills and commercialise their work. 

Ideally students will have a lot of demonstrable knitting experience or must have previously completed our Skill Stage 3 course. At this level students will be able to continue developing personal research and technical skills to form a unique collection of work at a professional level. 

Courses at this level provide students with an opportunity to develop their own individual style, experiment with ideas and develop their technical skills to form a collection of work at a professional level.

If you haven’t previously completed a Level 3 or Skill Stage 3 course then please do check with us first before enrolling onto this course.

Courses at this level again include a Professional Practise module making them great for craft business owners. Whether you teach classes, run a craft store or sell your own products you’ll be taught valuable business and marketing skills including working to client briefs, establishing costing models and how to promote your business and services.

Our skill Stage 4 courses are also great for those with a business ambition. Our course includes an entire module called professional practise, which is aimed at getting you business ready. We teach valuable industry skills to really give you that professional, competitive edge.

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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

“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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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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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

“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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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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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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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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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

“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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