Mouse Workshop

• How to choose the right wool for different projects

• Understanding needle gauges: what to use and when

• Techniques for basic body shaping, proportions, and achieving a realistic form

• How to blend wools for a natural look

• Introduction to wire armature (pre-prepared and supported with a take-home video tutorial)

All materials and tools will be provided.

• Wool mats

• High-quality needles,

• Wooden needle holders

• Pliers

• Scissors

• Australian core wool

• New Zealand Corriedale wool

• Wire

• Pipe cleaners

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

• 3.5 hours of expert instruction from award-winning workshop facilitator Dianne Conroy of Wild Woolly in a class of a maximum of ten participants

• All materials and tools required

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

• Morning tea including a light snack and tea and coffee

• VIP 2-day pass to the Australian Yarn Show from March 7th to 8th at Hotel Realm including:

  • Australian Yarn Show 2026 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 is an award-winning independent fibre artist from Brisbane, Australia. 

Di comes from a family of artists, her father an artist and potter, her mother a seamstress, and her grandmother a wedding dress maker. 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 yrs 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.