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Woolie Flower Bouquet

Annette-Shaffer

Annette Shaffer

Dates: 1 day – Saturday, 8/16, 2025
Time:  9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Class Fee: $130.00 / Sauder Village Member $120.00
Level:  Beginner - Students should be comfortable with simple hand sewing and using a cool temp, mini hot glue gun.
Supply Fee:  $50 - payable to teacher ahead at class time

Your kit fee includes a detailed handout, a sewing needle and thread and your choice of all the precut wool strips needed to create and finish your bouquet. Use of a glue gun and all glue sticks also included.

Description:   

Enjoy summer blossoms all year long! In this workshop you will create a bouquet of 9 different, wool flowers. Annette will provide a colorful array of wools for each flower for you to choose from to make this bouquet uniquely your own. You will first learn how to make several kinds of flower centers. Then using the techniques of dimensional quilling, clever cutting, glueing and a bit of hand stitching, you will craft the different flowers, attaching them to the centers you’ve already made. The workshop fee includes your choice of all the wool and supplies needed to make 9, finished stems for this approximately 15” tall bouquet. The fee also includes a detailed handout which will allow you to recreate the flowers as well as reduce or enlarge the flower patterns. The handout also suggests ways to vary the individual flowers.

The woolie flowers created in this workshop can be used in many ways, in vases, pots or arrangements, on wreaths or plaques. They may also be incorporated into rugs, used as pins or to embellish totes, clothing or purses. Annette will share tips on the many different applications. Since each flower requires only a small strip or selvedge edge of wool, these flowers are a great way to transform those leftover pieces of wool into a beautiful bouquet.

Students Need to Bring:

Please bring sharp fabric scissors; also pinking shears if you have them.

Bio: 

Annette Shaffer of Annie’s Wool Works describes herself as a lifelong fiber craft person. She began traditional rug hooking almost 30 years ago but soon evolved into creating shaped, cut out and 3-dimensional hooked pieces. Many of her pieces are mixed media, use additional fiber techniques such as beading, felting and embroidery and incorporate non-traditional hooking materials such as yarns and silks, as well as wire, old bed springs, twigs and other natural elements. More recently she has been exploring free form quilling techniques as both flat and dimensional pieces, as stand-alone pieces or incorporated with hooking and mixed media. She is honored to have been awarded People’s Choice five times in the Mixed Media and 3-Dimensional categories at the Sauder Village Rug Hooking Show. She teaches quilling and dimensional wool workshops through-out the year. She is a founding member and office holder of her local ATHA guild and member and office holder in two other fiber guilds. Annette enjoys teaching and sharing the diverse, creative possibilities of wool with others. Visit Annette’s website, annieswoolworks.com to see her dimensional wool work and the many different ways she has used free form quilling and how it can be incorporated into your wool world.

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