Needle & Wet Felt Hat
Friday 1pm-4pm $55

This will be a fun time felting a handsome hat that also offers a thorough introduction to felting. You will be making a simple cloche style hat by needlefelting wool roving onto a foam hat form. After needlefelting the basic hat shape you will finish the hat using wet felting techniques. The hat can then be further embellished.

The class fee includes foam hat form and six needle felting tool for you to take home, plus the wool needed to create your hat. Judy will have the hat shapers needed to put your hat on to dry over night. You will pick up the hat on Saturday morning at the festival. No special skills or previous experience are required.

Judy Colvin became interested in fiber arts about 20 years ago when she learned to spin and acquired her first fiber producing animals - angora goats. In 1989, Judy and her husband David hosted the very first Big Sky Fiber Arts Festival at their ranch. In 1991 they started raising Shetland sheep and in 1999 added Bluefaced Leicesters to their flock. She discovered that BFL wool felts beautifully and also discovered the art of felting had been going through some amazing transitions. Judy has taken felting classes with Sherry Konya, Chad Alice Hagen, Pat Sparks, and Ewa Kuniczak of Scotland, plus hosted Australian felter Julie Williams for a week of felting.