Creative Felting & Textile Courses at Diva Design Studio

We really enjoy passing on our knowledge and excitement about colours, textures and techniques. Our courses are brilliant for beginners and more experienced hands alike as well as anyone yearning to be creative who believes they’re not artistic.  Come and have fun and surprise yourself!

Click on any of the following courses for full details and dates.

A New Look At Scarves

Make a hybrid woven and felted scarf in soft, flexible fibres and glorious colours.

Baubles, Bangles & Beads

Learn various techniques to make lush felted jewellery.

Beautiful Bags

Design and felt a seamless handbag, clutch or even a sporran!

Botanical Felting

Taking inspiration from the newly opened gardens at Logie to create a felted “Botanical Painting”.

Christmas to Keep

Create a seasonal heirloom decoration.

Cobweb Scarves

Learn to make cobweb felt and go home with a beautiful scarf you have made yourself.

Dyeing Texture

Dyeing a range of different silk and wool fibre textures then experimenting with felting the textures you have dyed.

Embellish Embellish

A made to measure course for those wishing to learn how to get the best from their embellishing machines.

Felted Flower Corsages

Learn how to make various flower forms that can be used to make a corsage to wear on your coat, hat, bag or in your hair.

Fantastic Felted Hats

Design and make the perfect hat for you!

Felting Feast

Come and play with all our glorious colours and blends of fibres in our beautiful studio.

Felting Landscapes

Come and learn to ‘paint’ beautiful landscapes with merino and silk.

Felted Flower Lights

Felt a fabulous festoon of flowers and attach them to a string of fairy lights.

Felting With Lace

Make a pair of felted cuffs or a fashionable scarf with vintage lace.

Felted Flower Wall Hanging

Create a large flower study in felt.

Felted Table Runners

Make a wet felted table centre or small runner.

Felted Tea-cosies

Make a colourful and warm cover to your own design.

Free Form Crochet

Crocheting ‘outside the box’.

Gnomes

Making small, friendly gnomes from felt and other things.

Hand Spinning for Beginners

From the sheep’s back to yours – well, nearly!

Lights, Lamps and Doorstops

Learn how to felt onto a form such as a vase, lampshade or pebble.

Making Mini Books

Learn to make and decorate several kinds of mini books.

Paint and Stitch

Play with colour and create a picture using paint and hand stitches on fabric.

Playday with Friends

Made to measure day for you and your friends.

Sculptural Felt

Vessels, vases and pots – learn to create three dimensional shapes in felt.

Seasonal Special

Get prepared for Christmas and send gifts and cards you have made yourself.

Shibori – Felt and Dye

Learn how to dye, felt and create unusual effects using the technique of ‘shibori’.

Trash to Treasure

Turn fabric and paper scraps into glorious metallic effect artwork.

Weaving Wishes, Memories and Dreams

Weaving a wall-hanging on a nature loom.

Wild 3D Felting

Weird and wonderful multifaceted forms – pods, pots and sculptures of all kinds.