Valerie’s Natural Felt Designs

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Bio Wool Cosy and Travel Mug

Bio Wool Cosy and Travel Mug

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The Wheat Grain Bio Travel Mugs are lightweight and easy to carry, fitting seamlessly into your daily routine. Many cafes welcome these mugs, making it even easier to enjoy your favourite drinks sustainably. Choose our bio travel mugs and join the movement towards a greener planet.
You can purchase my bears at Dippy Doodahs, Hailsham, UNO Art Gallery Seaford when exhibiting , and where I attend Fayres and Shows

Summer Shawl

Summer Shawl

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I make these shawls using Tussah silk hankies, which I laid out over the full length and width of my table. Next
merino wool is added followed by Blueface Leicester and Wensleydale locks,, plus mulberry silk. Once the laying out is completed I damped the shawl and leave it overnight to let the scales on the wool open ready for the felting process. This involves rubbing the shawl with a homemade olive oil soap solution. This helps the wool begin to bind together, one the materials become a fabric I then roll it up and roll it back and forth about 800 hundred times.
It is then laid out on the table and checked that all the fibres have felted/ locked together followed by gently fulling it.

Chicken Egg Cosy

Chicken Egg Cosy

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Chicken egg cosies to keep your breakfast egg snug and warm. Available at Starlings Art & Craft Collective, Bexhill and Dippy Doodahs Hailsham . Wool is naturally insulating and thermal keeping boiled eggs ready to eat. A lovely Mothering Sunday and Easter gifts. Enjoy them!

Sunglass Cases

Sunglass Cases

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These beautiful wool felt handmade glasses cases are strong and robust. They have an invisible magnet to keep the flap closed.  Included is a microfiber cleaning cloth to help keep your glasses lenses smudge free.   
The cases are made over a resist making them seamless
Measurements are approximately 20 x 10 cm  
The are being retailed at £14.50 through Starlings Arts and Crafts Collective and Dippy Doodahs in Hailsham 

Miniature wool paintings

Miniature wool paintings

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Approximately 5 inches square. A mixture of wet and needle felt techniques. I use wool as a painter uses paint. They are full of movement and many different colour fibres. Using lots of different shades of one colour helps to create the hue that I am trying to achieve. Unlike paint when mixing blue and yellow will make green and adding white will lighten wools don’t change colour they have to be patiently and carefully blended. I find this a very magical and relaxing. Each painting has many layers of wool added either by wet or needle felting. This is a process that takes time. These miniature painting and others are available Starlings Art and; Craft Collective, plus Dippy Doodahs

Hi, I’m Valerie

I live in a rural market town in East Sussex, close to both the South Downs and the coast. I am a felt artist and I love making and teaching.  Find out more on my About Me page