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:

1. Make a thin piece of wool felt.
2. Understand the difference between pre felt and fully fulled felt.
3. Use a felting needle.
4. 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.

Wet Felting with Surface Textures

with Margaret Hall

This sculptural workshop will introduce you to surface texture on wet felted pieces. We will start with the creation of structurally sound flat felt using the wet felting technique. We will then move to learning 4 surface techniques: attaching silk paper motifs, using stitching to create surface texture, attaching felted pieces and using a resist.

All supplies are included with registration. This art sampler is suitable for all skill levels (beginners are welcome). For ages 16+.

About Margaret R. 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.

Figure Drawing

with Saija Maureen & a live model

For our first MAGSampler of the Fall season, participants will be guided through some useful drawing techniques including composition, measuring, and sighting, all of which will then be applied while drawing a live model (fully clothed). This drawing class will offer short and sustained drawing poses.

All supplies are included with registration. This art sampler is suitable for all skill levels (beginners are welcome). For ages 16+.

About Saija Maureen

Saija Maureen is a Red Deer Polytechnic alumni of the Visual Arts Diploma program, and an emerging local artist. She has been displaying her visual art and handmade jewelry at local events and music festivals since 2015, at events such as Red Deer’s Nuit Blanche, Astral Harvest Festival and Motion Notion Music Festival.

She is an avid lover of the natural world, focusing her painting and sculpting primarily on the theme of bones and plants. Saija is also an art and camp instructor at the Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery.