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Enjoy a monthly felting lesson with fiber artist and children’s book author-illustrator, Hillary Dow. Each session includes a core lesson, during which an illustration of a future book in the Lichendia series is worked on! Lessons are photographed and/or recorded, cut together (front and overhead views), and delivered to your inbox on the fourth Tuesday of every month.

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Base Layer Sky & Sun

Before we dive too deep into the felting lesson: motion lines, the development of the base layer comes first!

Begin with a base layer of core wool and place the sun.

Once the blue wool is covering the remainder of the base, continue adding more yellow wool to build up the ball of the sun.

Continue to build up the ball of the sun.

You can either leave the ball of the sun protruding over the edge of your base, or felt it inward so that it aligns with your edge as I have done here.

I've learned that spending time at this point to firm up the base layer of colored wool makes for a sturdier base over the long haul. A little extra felting and tidying up of the edges now helps with the longevity of how your piece will remain over time. The less you felt the base layer now, the fibers will more easily loosen slightly over time.

Felting a Winged Fairy in Flight

Next, we’ll add a winged fairy, with curly locks, arms, legs, a puffy skirt, and a bend at the knee.

Sun Fairy Flies Into the Sun, needle felting lesson to learn techniques to create motion lines with wool.

Sun Fairy Flies Into the Sun, needle felting lesson to learn techniques to create a figure with wings and motion lines - all with wool!

Keep going in and alternating shades until you have the just the right amount of motion.

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After recording each lesson, I have the footage cut together into a series of videos that everyone subscribed to my felting community has access to until the end of the month. When the month ends, lessons are then available for individual sale or added to the membership portal for paid members of the Felting Master Class. Once lessons move on to paid access I also add still shots of the steps I take to complete final details in the development of the piece. From time to time (when life gets really hectic) a monthly lesson will consist of still images only. As a working mama and entrepreneur, I sometimes need to lighten my load… like while we sell our house, move and settle into our forever home (spring and summer 2022)!

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Hi, my name is Hillary Dow. A few of my many hats include mother, author, artist, family chef, marketing consultant, marketing manager, felting artist in Maine, and oh so many more. I write children’s books illustrated with my wool creations. It is such a thrill and honor to inspire imagination in others. It is so much fun to be a part of helping someone develop their skills and CREATE artwork. Let’s get started!

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