WHEN Pam Wright and her husband Stewart moved to Tamworth three years ago to be nearer their daughter, Nicole Engert, Pam had some crafty plans in mind.
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“I’d heard about the Craft Shed and my daughter Nicole and I decided straight away we were going to join and take up pottery,” Pam said.
They phoned and spoke to member Prue Campese, who invited them along to the next class.
“In the meantime, we saw 3-D felting, so we came, we saw, we conquered and we’ve been hooked ever since,” Pam said.
Although they haven’t taken that pottery class yet, Pam and Nicole are two of the Craft Shed’s most avid needle felters.
Needle felting is a process which uses barbed needles to interlock wool fibres to form a more condense material.
As such, it’s a wonderfully freeform pastime, so you’re only limited by your imagination in what you can make.
Pam has made the tiny mermaid she’s holding in our photo, to work in with the theme of the annual quilt show coming up at the Craft Shed.
She’s also made a zebra, hats, slippers, shawls and even a replica of the Statue of David.
“It looks just like marble, but when you touch it, it’s of course very soft, being made from wool,” Pam said.
There was a four-day felting workshop over the Anzac weekend from April 21-24 at the Craft Shed.
At the recent annual general meeting of Tamworth Art and Craft, Pam took on the presidency of the organisation, and is now responsible for overseeing the areas of painting and drawing, felting, spinning and weaving, quilting, embroidery, knitting, crochet and sewing.
There are activities at the Craft Shed six days a week – sewing, patchwork, pottery and folk art on Mondays; art, multimedia and woodturning on Tuesdays; embroidery and bobbin lace, pottery and weaving on Wednesdays; spinning and weaving, patchwork and quilting, lapidary, sculpture and felting on Thursdays; felting on Fridays; and woodturning, lapidary, blacksmiths, patchwork and quilting, pottery and bonsai on Saturdays.
Find out more by phoning 6761 2779, or just call in and have a look around.
You’ll be surprised at what sorts of things are being created in that little old tin shed.