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May 2025

Triple Taste
  • Participant Experience Level:: Participants should have attended a beginner’s felting workshop or know the basics of felting.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: $30
  • Length of Workshop: 2 days
  • Is kit included in price: No
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday March 7th 4:00pm
  • General bookings: March 15th 8:00am
Workshop

A workshop with Alison Gomes Learn about Colour Harmony, Design Principles ...
03 May
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050

Triple Taste
  • Participant Experience Level:: Participants should have attended a beginner’s felting workshop or know the basics of felting.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: $30
  • Length of Workshop: 2 days
  • Is kit included in price: No
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday March 7th 4:00pm
  • General bookings: March 15th 8:00am
Workshop

A workshop with Alison Gomes Learn about Colour Harmony, Design Principles ...
04 May
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050
June 2025

Solving the Mystery of Wire Armatures
  • Participant Experience Level:: All levels of experience welcome.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: Kit included
  • Length of Workshop: 2
  • Is kit included in price: Yes
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday April 11th 4:00 pm
  • General bookings: April 19th 8:00 AM
Workshop

A workshop with Peta Korb This is a two day workshop Peta ...
07 Jun
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050

Solving the Mystery of Wire Armatures
  • Participant Experience Level:: All levels of experience welcome.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: Kit included
  • Length of Workshop: 2
  • Is kit included in price: Yes
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday April 11th 4:00 pm
  • General bookings: April 19th 8:00 AM
Workshop

A workshop with Peta Korb This is a two day workshop Peta ...
08 Jun
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050
July 2025

Simple Stitches – Infinite Possibilities 2
  • Participant Experience Level:: Preferable to have completed Simple Stitches-Infinite Possibilities 1 Workshop, but not essential as the Innovative Stitches Team are happy to accommodate stitchers at their individual level of expertise.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: 20
  • Length of Workshop: 1 day
  • Is kit included in price: Yes
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: Yes - bring your own felt to stitch
  • Member link: Friday May 9th 4:00pm
  • General bookings: Saturday May 17th 8:00 am
Workshop

Embroidery offers infinite possibilities.  This workshop invites exploration of a ...
05 Jul
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050
September 2025

Linear Expressions
  • Participant Experience Level:: All levels
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: $40
  • Length of Workshop: 1 day
  • Is kit included in price: No
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday July 11th 4:00 pm
  • General bookings: Saturday 19th 8:00 am
Workshop

A workshop with Soosie Jobson These lightweight wraps are perfect for ...
06 Sep
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050
October 2025

Numbats!
  • Participant Experience Level:: All level of experience welcome.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: $50
  • Length of Workshop: 2
  • Is kit included in price: Yes
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday August 8th 4:00 pm
  • General bookings: Saturday August 16th 8:00 am
Workshop

A workshop with Peta Korb This is a two day workshop Join ...
04 Oct
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050

Numbats!
  • Participant Experience Level:: All level of experience welcome.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: $50
  • Length of Workshop: 2
  • Is kit included in price: Yes
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday August 8th 4:00 pm
  • General bookings: Saturday August 16th 8:00 am
Workshop

A workshop with Peta Korb This is a two day workshop Join ...
05 Oct
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050
November 2025

Tote-ally Sharply Squared
  • Participant Experience Level:: Basic felting skills and some experience in using resists required.
  • Approximate materials cost if you had to buy everything: All included
  • Length of Workshop: 1 day
  • Is kit included in price: Yes
  • Is there pre workshop homework?: No
  • Member link: Friday 12th September 4:00pm
  • General bookings: Saturday 20th September 8:00am
Workshop

A one day workshop with Sue Eslick In this one-day workshop, ...
01 Nov
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Alexander Park Craft House
Clyde Road, Menora, WA, 6050
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Helping us to help you

Volunteer Program

What help do we need?

We are always looking for members to help out at both our regular events and especially at external events of which we do at least 2 a year.  We try to attend all large Craft Shows and the Royal Show. Why?  It’s the best way to let people know about us!  This usually entails doing a morning or afternoon shift talking to people about our amazing craft.  It is a very enjoyable thing to do – not only do you get to talk to people about felting you will get to know your fellow volunteers better.

Besides helping at Craft Shows and external type events, simple things like helping to setup tables and chairs, washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen, helping to put things away, sweeping the hall, assisting the Librarian, and generally all the things we need to do at Craft House.

How can you sign up to help?

All of our regular events like Toss n Tell, Tuesdays and Workshops will have a sign-up sheet. Please put your name down for one of the jobs if you are attending that event.

For external events we will have special sign-up sheet under Special Events & Retreats in the Members Area.

What do Volunteers get?

Besides the satisfaction of helping fellow members and contributing to the group we have some rewards for regular volunteers.

  • Morning tea with training and orientation
  • Exclusive Feltwest tote bag to bring to all our events
  • Feltwest Volunteer Name Badge
  • Parking contribution of $15 for external events

Tutor Mentoring

Do you like to teach?

Feltwest also has a Tutor Mentoring Program.  One of the key elements of our Skill Extension Workshops is there are 2 tutors – one senior or lead tutor and second tutor who assists.  This second tutor can also be a trainee tutor being mentored.  This is a great way to become a tutor who can comfortably take the lead in a Skill Extension workshop and ultimately conduct their own workshops.

Why do we do this?

Feltwest is committed to the longevity of our craft for future generations.  Mentoring future tutors is one way we can achieve this. If you would like to join the program please complete and submit the form below:




Feltwest Website – Calendar of Events

Our website is crucial to the running of our organisation – it deals with all our booking processes and communications.  Please take the time to log in to your account (that you created when you became a member) and become familiar with each section of the menu. To log in please select the “Members Area” section and log in.

Our home page has our full calendar of all that is coming up, for example workshops, Toss n Tell, and any meetings. The calendar is made of events – it contains all the information relevant to that type of event.  For example:

Toss n Tell – you find details about the guest speaker, demo, activity etc including a detailed schedule.  It may also include things you need to bring.

Workshops  – besides the usual blurb and tutor bio, dates, times and costs, there will be a booking link and importantly the date and time that bookings open.

Special Events –  we may have special events like Exhibitions or Markets, again it will tell you the important details.

All of these events are mapped out the year before at our Planning Meeting in September

Discovery Days

Play Explore Learn

Starting March 2025

I recently had a wardrobe clean out. Not one of those gentle wafts through the hangers where two, maybe three items are released from their bonds. No, I mean a full dismantling of apparatus followed by ruthless culling. What I discovered is that I had 33 – yes 33 – pieces of wearable felt. Many I had completely forgotten about. A quandary ensued. We invest so much time and energy into making felt that it is very hard to part with it – even if you haven’t worn it for years.

What to do? I always think about recycle, redesign, reuse, reshape, or repair but I needed some design inspiration. Whenever I need design inspiration I usually turn to Japanese culture for advice. And, as usual it didn’t fail me.

Japanese culture as a very long history of recycling; ideas like Kintsugi and Boro. Kintsugi is the art of highlighting repairs of porcelain and china with bold gold, and similarly Boro is the continual patching and re-patching clothing but not hiding it, rather, embracing it. The repaired clothing was often over stitched for strength with beautiful patterns of running stitch – collectively called Sashiko. The idea was born – I am going to redesign my felt.

I then realised I had more than wearables to recycle – I had a stack of samples from workshops , UFOs from good intentions and disasters to learn from.  All waiting to be reborn.  Don’t have a stash of ready made felt?  Not a problem.  Make sample sizes and try out the plethora of felting techniques we know – maybe we’ll invent some new ones!

Throughout 2025 we will do just that: recycle, redesign, reuse, reshape, reinvent, or repair any felt we have in our stashes, along with our growing sample stash.  With some simply hand stitching we will construct a new wearable in the size of your choosing – from a scarf to a jacket you chose.