Roz - Needle Felt Teddy Bear Workshop

Roz wants to dance with you!

 

This is a workshop for beginner needle felters. 

What will you learn?

• Needle felt a face, with eye sockets, and felted nose.
• Needle felt pawpads and foot pads.  
• Paint with acrylic paint and shading with pencils.
• Making eyelashes
• Double neck joint, and movable ankles and wrists.

Roz has a rather unusual pattern design and multiple joints (ten articulated points instead of the usual five).  This makes her extra posable and fun to play with.  She is made from batik dyed mohair, and the felting details are added with merino wool.  The pattern for her felt dress and instructions to make it is included.    
To participate in the workshop, you will need some skill as a teddy bear maker, basic bear making techniques are not covered in the workshop.
Here are a few photos I took while making the bear.  It will give you a little hint about how much entertainment you are letting yourself in for when making Roz.

First, get the bear together, and play with poses using all those joints.

Then add the needle felt details, and some paint and eyelashes to make her beautiful.

Finally, raid your stash for some funky felt colours and matching buttons, and make a simple-to-sew dress.

Here are a few photos of bears made at the sneak preview workshop we had last weekend. 

Workshop details:

• Dates available - 13 July, 14 September.
• Duration - 9am till 4pm, at Tin Soldiers Studio in Irene Pretoria.
• Cost - R 470.  This includes the kit and patterns, felting requirements, workshop notes, tuition, lunch and tea.
• Additional felting needles are available at R 18 each.
• This workshop requires pre-sewing.  You need to get a kit from Megan when you book for the workshop and do the homework.  Comprehensive homework instructions are included with the kit.
• The pattern and instructions for the dress is included with the kit, but does not form part of the workshop.  Materials to make the dress is not included.  You will need two 25cm x 25cm squares of felt in the base colour, and scraps for accessorizing.  Also some small buttons and press studs.

On the day of the workshop, please bring along the following:  completed homework, super glue, a foam block, small flat paint brush for acrylic paint no 0 or 1, watercolour pencils black and burnt umber, general sewing supplies.  If you do not have all of the above, or forget something, don't worry, you will be able to borrow from the studio stash.

To book for the workshop, email Megan at megbear99@gmail.com.