Fairy Wren Needle Felting

• Knowledge of the right wools to use for different projects

• Instruction on the right gauge of needle to use and when

• How to make a wire armature from paper-covered wire for little feet

• Basic body shaping, proportions and how to get a realistic shape

• How to blend wools

All materials and tools will be provided.

• Australian core wool

• NZ Corriedale wools

• Wire

• Pipe cleaners

• Glass eyes

• Wool mats

• High-quality needles,

• Wooden needle holders

• Pliers

• Scissors

There are no pre-requisite skills for this workshop. This workshop is for beginners.

• 3.5 hours of expert instruction from internationally renowned workshop facilitator Dianne Conroy of Wild Woolly in a class of a maximum of ten participants

• All materials and tools required

• A wren to take home at the conclusion of the workshop

• Afternoon tea including a light snack and tea and coffee

• VIP 2-day pass to the Australian Yarn Show from March 8th to 9th at Hotel Realm including:

  • Australian Yarn Show 2025 Show bag

  • One coffee voucher per day (Saturday and Sunday) for barista coffee cart

  • One digital access pass to all the talks on the main stage

Please note that the digital access pass will not be activated until a couple of weeks after the conclusion of the Show.

Di comes from a family of artists, her father an artist and potter, her mother a seamstress, and her grandmother a wedding dressmaker. Surrounded by creative people, Di started making art at an early age.

After moving to Tokyo in her twenties, Di soon established herself with a business in vintage Japanese fabrics. Di’s workshops were waitlisted for many years, where she taught her art of creating wall art, quilts and handbags from vintage kimonos, yukatas and obis. While living in Tokyo for 16 years Di studied needle felting as a hobby with some of Japan's finest teachers. Felted fibres became a passion and continued when she moved to Singapore where her felted art began to take form.

As a fibre artist, Di uses wool and other speciality fibres to create 3D sculptures and wool paintings that explore colour and texture in unexpected ways. Wool is an accessible, forgiving and beautiful art form. Laying straight fibres or tangling them together to create new texture is exciting and rewarding. From its origins as a textile used to produce clothing, to a medium that has created some of the most intricate works of art the world has ever known, it is a form of expression that Di loves to continue to push the limits of our imagination.

Now living in Brisbane, Di runs Wild Woolly where she does commission work, runs workshops and sells felting supplies. Di’s inspiration comes from her love of animals, the details of Japanese art, the lushness of Singapore, and her tropical Queensland garden.