Welcome to Woolly Pets - Christine's Creative Wool Needle Felting world! Felt is a textile that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers such as wool together. Needle felting is a popular fiber arts craft and is widely used as a medium for expression in textile art as well as design, where it has significance as an ecological textile.
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Christine has managed her creative and artistic skills into versatile and colorful 2D & 3D wool needlecraft. She is currently the instructor of needlecraft workshop at art schools and community centers, and has many pieces of artwork available. Please see her art gallery , latest Facebook feeds , Instagram and slideshow. Since most of her work is felted animal woolly pets, she forms Woollypet.com and put all about needle felting into one place. She recently just opens her shop at Etsy, we welcome your continuing support!
Come to create awesome wool needle felting crafts and find the joy in your fingertips! It is totally beginner friendly!
Current Project: Pumpkin
Put down the carving knife for carving pumpkins, we are using felting needle and fluffy wool for sculpting this year’s crop for season celebration in full.
Private lesson by Zoom or Google Meet
Project: One felting pumpkin
Cost: $65
Length: 1.5 hours
Starter tools (needles, foam) & wool material are included and will be shipped by USPS Priority Mail (shipping included, US domestic only).
Flexible time arrangement!
Christine Hsiao currently teaches Adults & Young Artist programs of Needle Felting Classes at The Art School at Old Church in Demarest NJ; Needle Felting Clubs at the Tenafly Maugham Elementary School, Tenafly Mackay Elementary School, Tenafly Stillman Elementary School, Cresskill Merritt Memorial Elementary School and the Workshops at the Bergenfield Library, Dumont Library, Glen Ridge Library, Pequannock Library, Tenafly Senior Center, Teaneck Community Education Center, Ramsey Library, Franklin Lakes Library, Englewood Library, Wyckoff Library, Rahway Library, Mahwah Library, Boonton Holmes Library, Ramapo High School and Fair Lawn Library, plus private groups in New Jersey. Christine's workshop at the Teaneck Community Education Center has also been featured in the Teaneck Suburbanite newspaper and the Chinese World Journal newspaper.
She holds a Master’s Degree of Art in New Media and during her spare time she helps businesses develop their digital/visual design and web presence. Fluent in Chinese and competent in both Simplified & Traditional Chinese, she also teaches Chinese club & classes at the Tenafly Stillman Elementary School, Tenafly Senior Center and other private groups in New Jersey. Additionally, she published her first Android app "Cute Cat Memory Game" in the Amazon App & Google Play Stores, in which she designed the visual & graphics art. She recently opens her shop at Etsy, we welcome your continuing support!
Feel free to contact her for more information if you are interested. You are welcome to visit her Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest for more versatile needlefelting works.
Make your own Woolly Pets! We are very excting to release two Needle Felting Kits for the beginners. Kit include wool, needle and detail instructions.
Gnome - Needle Felting Kit for Beginner/Intermediate Level, for Gnome lovers!
Pearl the Unicorn Needle Felting Kit for beginners, Perfect DIY Craft for Unicorn lovers.
Bunny with Carrot Needle Felting Kit - Basic or Complete Kit for beginners.
The Welsh Corgi Dog Needle Felting Kit for beginners.
Daffy The Duckling Felting Kit for beginners, Perfect DIY Craft for Fox lovers.
Rainbow the Unicorn Felting Kit for beginners, Perfect DIY Craft for Unicorn lovers.
Baby Fox Felting Kit for beginners, Perfect DIY Craft for Fox lovers.
Country Mouse Felting Kit for Beginner/Intermediate Level
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Free online video tutorials
Dec 8, 2020 - Ramsey Library
Nov 2, 2020 - Mahwah Library
Sep 30, 2020 - Mahwah Library
Sep 23, 2020 - Franlin Lakes Library
Aug 17, 2020 - Mahwah Library
July 27, 2020 - Wyckoff Library
July 13, 2020 - Ramsey Library
Needle felting with Christine adults and kids workshops at
Ramsey Public Library, Wyckoff Public Library and Mahwah Public Library
Needle felted unicorn and mushroom cottage.
6/25-7/30, 2020
Students in our Needle Felting Creations online class will use accessories to create unique and fun projects, explore their creativity, and develop hand-eye coordination while creating soft and colorful felted creations!
Project: Bunny
Shape wool into a cute bunny using easy step by step method
Teens. Registration required.
Shape wool into a cute bunny using easy step by step method
Registration required.
**** Update 02/08/2020: Class is full ****
Learn the art of needle felting and create your very own bunny!
From wool roving, you will be guided-step by step-through the process of using a felting needle to poke and transform natural sheep wool into fiber sculpture.
Class size is limited. No experience required. All materials are included. Connect with ReFind to reserve your seat around the table.
* 11/24/2019 - The Art School at Old Church - Needle Felting: Reindeer & Snowman
* 11/9/2019 - Rahway Public Library - Snowy Qwl
* 10/19/2019 - Englewood Public Library - Teens Woolly Pets
* 9/28/2019 - Refind - Needle Felting - Pumpkins
* 8/5/2019 - The Art School at Old Church - Blast of Art! Summer camp for children
* 7/24/2019 - Wyckoff Free Public Library - Needle Felting Workshop for Children - A Universe of Stories
* 7/17/2019 - Franklin Lakes Public Library - Summer Owls for Teens
* 7/12/2019 Ramsey Library - Needle Felting Workshop for Teens
* 6/15/2019 The Art School at Old Church Needle Felting Workshop
-- The Garden Gnomes
* 4/16 & 17/2019 Ramapo High School -- Two-day Needle Felting Workshop
Date: 6/15/2019
Workshop at The Art School at Old Church
Have you seen those jovial little men wearing pointy hats running around in your garden? They are said to bring good luck, and perhaps they are in the midst of hiding treasures as we speak.
Join us in needle felting workshop to create those crafty garden gnomes!
Date: January 18 - February 28, 2019
"Our teachers are so talented! Don’t miss the opening of Salon 561 - our faculty show."
Date: 2/26/2019
Needle Felting workshop at Wyckoff library. We made happy feet - black penguins tonight. The little penguins warm up everyone in such cold night. 🐧🐧🐧
Date: 2/5/2019
We were making blue penguins in the snow days. A great night at the Ramsey Public Library for penguin needle felting! Everyone had a blast learning the technique of felting.
Date: 12/21/2018
Girl Scouts of Washington Township were making the penguins ornaments for the Holidays!
Date: 12/15/2018
Time: 2pm-3:30pm
Snowman workshop at Fair Lawn Public Library.
Date: 12/7/2018 3pm
River Edge, NJ
'Tis the season, we were making penguin ornaments!
"Gobble Gobble" Turkey & Pumpkin
11/17/2018 10am - 4pm
We had a great day poking the wool fiber into "Gobble Gobble" Turkey & Pumpkin workshop at The Art School at Old Church at Demarest, NJ.
10/2/2018
Workshop at the Wyckoff Library - A wonderful evening that we were creating the woolly pumpkins. It turns out all the pumpkins have their unique characteristics.
9/29/2018
The time for pumpkin patch and Fall harvest is here. Let's make our own woolly pumpkin.
Needle Felting workshop at Fair Lawn Public Library. We all had a great time felting the cute pumpkins.
Discovery Studio - Rahway Public Library
Date: September 23, 2018 | 2 - 3:30PM
A wonderful experience to learn needle felting 101 at the Rahway public library.
Felting For Fun - Wyckoff library
Date: June 13, 2018 | 6:30PM - 8:00PM
https://wyckofflibrary.org/
A fun evening with lot quack quack ducklings.
Salon 561: Needle Felting Student Work
Date: May 29 - Jul 6, 2018
Location: Mikhail Zakin Gallery, The Art School at Old Church
Last Updated: 2 /10 /2018
Needle Felting 101
April 21, 2018
A wonderful day holding a Needle Felting workshop at Refind studio - Bay Head, New Jersey. We made "Jeffery the mouse".
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 | 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Mikhail Zakin Gallery, The Art School at Old Church
Kick off the Fall with the Art School at Old Church! Salon 561 is an annual show that showcases the wide breadth of knowledge, mediums, and talent of the faculty at the Art School at Old Church. A great opportunity to meet the instructors, who are among many local professional artists devoting their creativity to inspiring students of all ages to experiment, indulge in new experiences, and to grow.
There will be artwork for sale in various mediums in ceramics, jewelry, photography, printmaking and needle felting displayed in the Mikhail Zakin Gallery.
Date: 6/4/2016 | Time: 12pm-4pm
Location: Tenafly Public Library 201-568-8680
http://tenafly.bccls.org/
Join us for an afternoon of colorful Chinese culture events, music, art, crafts and food tasting. Christine will be demonstrating Chinese Tea Ceremony and displaying Chinese style felting (including Chinese Zodiac animals).
Edit: This event was featured on the Chinese World Jouornal newspaper. (Edit: Link may expired from WJ.)
Christine will be displaying the felting Chinese Zodiac animals and others on the International Day at the Tenafly Stillman School.
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