Handcrafted in Nova Scotia

Made by hand,
made with story

Needle felting and hand weaving, rooted in craft, time, and the land we live on.

Three of Liz's framed needle felted pieces: a red-capped mushroom house with a small door, a magenta flower blanket stitched onto pink felt with a ladybug button beside it, and a moonlit scene with a black tree above gold sand.

Needle Felting

Painting with wool,
one wisp at a time

Needle felting is using a barbed needle to paint with wool. You draw a picture, then colour it in — not a big blob at a time, but little wisps, worked in slowly until it becomes something.

Liz has been needle felting for about fifteen years. She came to it through spinning and weaving, and it's what she teaches and demonstrates most often now.

A beginner's guide to needle felting

Flat Pictures Sculptural Gnomes Kits
A handwoven sample in blues and violets laid out along a wooden table, with a band of soft white tufts worked into the middle and a long fringe at the near end.

Weaving

Warp, weave,
finish

Liz learned to spin wool first, then to weave. She and Daniel now teach beginner rigid heddle weaving together — and in their workshop, you warp your own loom.

That's the part most beginner classes skip. Warping takes more than half the day, and it's the thing that lets you go home afterwards and weave whatever you like.

Rigid Heddle Warping Plain Weave Hem Stitch Spinning

Workshops

Learning to
weave together

Liz and Daniel teach two kinds of workshop, each with its own dates and its own way to sign up.

A needle felted penguin with an orange beak and orange feet on a bright blue background, blanket stitched around the edge and mounted on a wooden board.

Needle Felting

Beginner needle felting

Held at Sackville Heights Community Centre. You'll draw a simple picture and fill it in with wool, and leave with a finished piece and notes to work from at home.

Dates for the next session will be added here once they're confirmed.

A handwoven sample shading from cream through teal into dusty pink, finished with a long grey-green fringe.

Weaving

Beginner rigid heddle weaving

Five hours, including lunch. You warp your own loom — about two and a half hours of it — then weave, hem stitch, and finish your piece properly.

Everyone's loom is warped to the same length, and Liz works around the room while Daniel sorts out the tangles.

Venue and waitlist details will be added here once they're confirmed.

If neither location works for you, get in touch — workshops can sometimes be arranged elsewhere.

From the Last Workshop

Everyone leaves with
something of their own

Every loom starts the same length, and no two pieces come off looking alike. Liz photographs each one before people go home.

  • A handwoven sample in deep plum with a band of soft teal and grey through the centre, finished with a thick purple fringe.
    Plum and teal, plain weave
  • A handwoven sample in rust, gold and deep burgundy stripes with a long sandy fringe.
    Rust and gold
  • A handwoven sample in warm golds and ochres with a pale cream band woven across the middle.
    Golds and ochres
  • A handwoven sample in magenta and crimson with a row of small white dots woven in a line across it.
    Magenta, with a dotted line
  • A handwoven sample shading through lavender and soft grey, finished with a deep purple fringe.
    Lavender and grey
  • A handwoven sample shading from orange through coral and pink into sandy brown, with a pale pink fringe.
    Coral into sand

Her Story

"Nothing looks terrible.
It's your own masterpiece."

That's what Liz tells anyone in a workshop who looks down at what they've made and apologises for it. She photographs every finished piece before people go home.

She describes her own work as fun and simplistic — simple drawings, made well, and something new every year. "I'm not an artist, per se," she says, which is the sort of thing people who have been making things for decades tend to say.

[ Her full story coming soon ]

Upcoming Markets

Find us in person

September 11–12, 2026

Wool Stock East

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

A fibre market — every vendor there has something to do with fibre. Liz will be demonstrating needle felting across the weekend, working a piece through from blank felt to finished picture.

Dates to be announced

More markets to come

Nova Scotia

Further market listings will be added here as they're confirmed.

Get in Touch

Say hello

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