Terrific Trims
with Margaret Hall
Create unique trims for your hats, wear as a fashion accessory, or trim your Christmas tree. Look at period hats from the MAG’s textile collection in the war years for inspiration to make your own felted trims.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Make a thin piece of wool felt.
- Understand the difference between pre felt and fully fulled felt.
- Use a felting needle.
- Make several components that can be joined together to form a trim.
Attendees will have the opportunity to view vintage hats from the MAG’s collection, and use them as inspiration to create their own designs. Have festive fun, and the liberty to wear your own creation!
This art sampler is suitable for all skill levels (beginners are welcome). For ages 16+.
*while supplies for this workshop are included with registration, participants are encouraged to bring a large towel and small hand towel, and sharp scissors.
About Margaret Hall
Margaret has enjoyed exploring a variety of textile and fibre arts since she learned to knit as a child. Her more recent passions have been the sculptural properties of wool and enjoying the vast differences of fibre types from various sheep breeds and other fibre producing mammals.
Margaret has been felting for over 20 years and strives to improve her techniques through courses, collaboration and experimentation. She finds pleasure in combining her skills of felting with her other fibre arts skills. Her love of hats has recently taken her to complete a 2 year millinery course and add further to her repertoire.
By teaching and mentoring and collaborating with others she finds a renewed delight in all that is wool.