Emerald Curtain Collective Monthly Gathering

This month’s activity: Felted Mushrooms & Critters

Needle felting is a fiber art where a barbed needle is used to sculpt soft wool into shapes one poke at a time. As the needle repeatedly enters the wool, its tiny barbs tangle the fibers together allowing you to build and sculpt soft forms. In this class we will be creating mushrooms, snails, and gnomes that can be added to a plant, a piece of wood, a pin for your hat, or anywhere a little whimsy is needed.

There’s no charge for the class, but donations to help offset costs are warmly welcomed, and you can make one right at checkout.

Space is limited to 20 participants. A free ticket is required to attend. Drop-ins cannot be accommodated.

This month’s host:

Laura Buchanan

Laura is a gardener and a dried floristry artist; trying to capture the fleeting natural beauty of flowers for a moment longer. Gathering flowers at the peak of their glow, as well as after the petals fall–and the seed heads and pods’ beauty of texture emerge. Then drying them into their second life where color softens, petals curl and stems twist.

She also adds to her work elements crafted from wool, felt and paper. Celebrating the softness, texture and imperfect charm of organic materials. A world where nothing wilts, it simply transforms– allowing nature’s impermanence a moment longer.