I am making my first trip to America this year where I will be teaching at the Midwest Felting Symposium in Madison, Wiscosin from July 21st -25th 2010. After the symposium I will teaching a further 4-day masterclass, Dyeing fabrics and fibres to make a nunofelt garment. Please see the website for details and to book classes.www.midwestfeltingsymposium.com

Felting Fashion

My new book was published in May 2009 and has received excellent reviews.It guides the beginner through the simple processes of making felt jewellery and embellishing felt with fabrics to make sumptuous surfaces. For the more experienced felt-maker there are 3-dimensional projects making hats and guiding you through the processes of making seamless garments.Emphasis is put on inspiration and designing your own fabulous jacket or accessory. Patterns and measurements are given as guidance. Felting Fashion is £18.99 and available from me. PP to the UK is £3.00

Summer School in Cornwall August 2010

The summer school is being held near Penzance from 24th-28th August The emphasis will be on dyeing silk chiffon, habotai and other qualities of fabric and wool fibres, using both dip dyeing and shibori [tied resist dyeing] techniques, to create, by piecing and layering, beautiful textured clothing and accessories. Lizzie will instruct and reveal her methods of creating garments.

Midweek there will be a workshop led by Sue Dove, the renowned textile artist, [see her book Painting with Stitches] entitled Artwork for Textiles. Using collage, paint and oil pastels, a simple exercise will be explored, that produces exciting and surprising abstract images. These techniques will then be applied to your own source ideas, exploring and expanding ways to extend your textile work.

The course fee is £285 and will include some silk fabrics and fibres, lunches and an evening social buffet.

Please contact Lizzie for booking and further information.

Creative Felting published by:
Gaia - November 2007 - ISBN 978-1-85675-208-4
Lark Books - January 2008 - ISBN 978-1600592249

This is a book to inspire feltmakers with lots of ideas taken from nature. It is full of colour, with beautiful photographs. There is clear and detailed step-by-step instructions for 10 different felting techniques, to encourage experimentation and embellishment in feltmaking.

For a signed copy send a cheque for £12.99 Plus £2p.p to Lizzie Houghton, 90 Poppleton Rd, London, E11 1LT. Please state who you would like the book dedicated to.

About Lizzie

A love of colour, pattern, textures, and natural forms combined with luxury natural fabrics are Lizzie’s greatest inspiration. She creates ‘one off’ jackets, hats, scarves, cushions and other decorative items, incorporating her printing, dyeing and machine embroidery skills. She is currently experimenting widely with hand rolled felt and Nuno felting techniques with the addition of silks and velvets. She exhibits widely and sells her Wearable Art throughout the UK and Europe.

Lizzie Houghton trained as a Fashion Designer, has a City and Guilds qualification in Creative embroidery. She mostly works with felt making these days and runs her own workshops in feltmaking and dyeing.from her studio in Leytonstone, East London, on the edge of Epping Forest where she lives. She is sometimes available to teach at other venues about the country. This year, 2010, Lizzie makes her forst teaching trip to America to the Midwest Felting Symposium in July.