Designer Needle Felting with a Machine
Saturday 9am-4pm $110

Explore the possibilities of the new needle felting machines. Baby Lock and Janome, as well as lesser known companies, have each produced a machine that is designed especially for needle felting. These machines enable you to create new and interesting fabrics using a wide variety of natural fibers and fabrics. In this one day workshop you will explore the many options that are available with this machine. You will learn which fabrics work well and which ones tend to break the needles. You will make samples using a variety of different fabrics and base fabrics.

Bring any special fabrics, fibers, yarns, laces, ribbons and knits you may want to incorporate into your samples. It is recommended that you bring your own machine to be the most comfortable, BUT the class price includes the material fee of $45 in fabulous materials and the use of a machine if you do not have your own.

Melissa Arnold has been working with textiles for over 20 years. She began as a weaver and spinner and moved full time into surface design in 1990, when she moved to Hawaii where she learned the art of shibori and indigo dyeing from the Temari Center for Asian Arts. She is currently collaborating with Fashion Designer Catherine Bacon, producing textiles for her spring and fall collections. Melissa’s work includes many different processes such as dyeing, devore’, discharge, screen printing, shibori, resist scouring and wool collage. Her work has won many awards and is in the collections of the Nippon Silk Center, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and numerous private collections across the country.