Needle Felting for Beginners 3D Christmas - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

A fun, festive introduction to 3D needle felting. This beginners’ course will teach you the basic tools and techniques of needle felting while you make your own seasonal decorations. You will learn all about the basic tools and materials of 3D needle felting before learning how to felt a smooth, round bauble using wool and simple shaping techniques. Then you’ll move on to creating a cute snowman by joining together felted shapes, and finally, make a small Christmas tree using cone forms and decorative details. This course is perfect for complete beginners and those who have done other needle felting courses.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Identify and use basic needle felting tools (felting needle, wool, and pad)

• Demonstrate proper needle felting safety techniques each week

• Felt a smooth, rounded shape suitable for a Christmas bauble.

• Join two or more felted shapes together to create a simple snowman figure.

• Construct a cone-shaped tree and decorate it with surface details.

• Add simple features and embellishments using colour and fine needle techniques.

Please bring with you to the course:-

• Needle Felting Wool in a variety of colours     

• Needle Felting Needles – these come in different sizes: look for size 38 or a medium.    

• Foam, dense sponge or felting brush to felt onto. An offcut of blue upholstery foam about 15cm square and 5cm thick (6 inches square and 2.5 inches thick) is ideal.  

• If you struggle with grip or dexterity in your hands, a felting needle holder (for single or 3 needles) can be helpful.  

• Small black beads to use as eyes (optional) 

• A drink, notepad and pen

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.