We are on holiday with our classic camper van...

Hello, lovely makers and creators and generally lovely people... just to let you know that Tigerlily Makes is on Holiday as of tomorrow and will return on the 2nd August.

We will be spending the week in Lily (pictured above) our hired classic camper van, we will be touring the Pembrokshire coast stopping off at Tenby and St Davids... I can see a photo opportunity here with all that lovely coastline.

Look forward to catching up with on our return :)

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Exciting news we are on the move to bigger and better premises...

Hello & welcome from Lisa Marie Olson

Designer/Maker

Good morning lovely makers and creators I know the blog posts have been a little thin on the ground lately, but that's because exciting things are underfoot!!

We are moving (not too far) to a bigger and better premises, this is great news for all you makers and creators as we will be able to run many more courses and offer more places.

Course will range from felt-making, knitting to felt, crochet and textiles with not only myself but our fabulous team of tutors all of which I will be featuring on the blog over the coming months so you can get to know them more.

On another note the website design is complete and is in the process of being built, its is truly fantastic and will have many features for customers to interact with... stay tuned and watch this space.

My thanks to everyone who has been on a Tigerlily Makes course, there are some new course coming up very soon that have not been run before. The aim is to continue to offer a variety of courses to inspire and to help existing customers develop further within their creative journey.

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Felt Flowers course was great fun and look at the stunning makes...

Gaynor's Feltastic Felt Flowers 

Jackie's Splendiferous Felt Flowers

Hi everyone just a quick post to day as in the middle of another fabulous felt flowers course, above are the pictures taken from a recent felt flowers course by the lovely Gaynor and Jackie, I feel that the pictures speak for themselves on this one with their vibrant colours and fabulous styles.

My heartfelt (if you pardon the pun lol) thanks to Gaynor and Jackie for being such great company on the day and being star newbie felt-makers.

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More fabulous felt Jewellery by Chris and Verity....

Morning lovely makers and creators, my apologies for not blogging for a while but I have been busy with some very exiting developments all of which will be revealed over the next month.

That said more importantly today a belated feature of a recent felt Jewellery course and second time course attendees Chris and Verity.  Chris and Verity are a mum and daughter team who share a passion for creative hobbies, though Verity is a textile student and has already carved a niche for herself with some of her fabulous designs.

I will be sharing some time with Verity in the summer to help with a little work experience and support  Verity's creative journey, I am really looking forward to sharing creative time with someone who is as dedicated and passionate about textiles as I am myself.

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Tuti Fruti bag gets a new owner children discover how wonderful felt is...

Well my lovely makers and creators and generally lovely people... I simply could not wait another day to share this latest post with you.

Pictured above is the adorable little lady that visited the boutique with her parents today, the little lady fell in love with the Tuti Fruit children's felt bag.  Whilst they were in the shop lots of other felt items were being tried and tested and went away with not only the bag but a brooch now attached to the bag pictured above and a hair slide.

Thank yo to the lovely parents who allowed me to captured this new relationship with felt.

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Holly's fabulous first time jewellery collection...

Morning lovlies, today's featured maker is the lovely Holly with her fabulous first time jewellery collection.  I particularly like the hair slide as I think the colours Holly chose go perfectly with her hair.

Thank you Holly for being such fabulous company and great makes :) 

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Hannah's fabulous first time felt jewellery collection

Hello lovely makers and creators, today we are featuring the fabulous first time makes of Hannah as pictured above.  Hannah was great company on yesterdays courses and chose absolutely stunning colours and projects.  You can see Hannah with just some of her makes fro  the day.

Thank you Hannah for being such great company and a star first time felter.

More lovely makes from the first timers on their jewellery course over the next couple of days.

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Felt by Gina the road to felt!!

Image courtesy of Felt by Gina

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Hello lovely makers creators and generally lovely people... today I want to share with you the exciting journey of one of my fantastic felt-making ladies.

Pictured above is the stunning work of Gina otherwise known as Felt by Gina, Gina and I met when she booked onto a beginners bag course and I have to say we had such a great day.  Gina was new to felt-making and was also a new mum for the second time but still managed to find time to do something for herself... something I feel that is important for us all to do especially with our busy lives.

Gina fell in love with felt and as a result booked on a further 2 courses to gain a further insight to felt.  From there in a very short time, Gina has been able to develop her felting and her fabulous style to create stunning one of pieces which see sells in her Etsy store, go take a look its a feast for the eyes.

Why not pop over to Gina's blog and read first hand Gina's experience not only of her felt-making days but of her felt-making journey.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Tigerlily Makes gets its Business Portrait Professionally Shot!!

Morning everyone, well I am very excited to share with you a recent extremely positive experience I was fortunate to have when Sara Moseley from Sara Moseley Photography took time out of her busy schedule to provide me with some photo's for Tigerlily Makes Business Portrait.  

If you are even the slightest little bit like me?  You might not find it easy to put in front of the camera, I have to say that I am typically one of these people that as soon as the camera is on I freeze!!  Therefore I rarely take a good photo, no I really don't. There are those that no matter what they are doing they just seem to take a great photo... I sadly am not one of those people, so you can imagine my delight when i received these wonderfully shot pictures by Sara.

I have to say that immediately Sara puts you at easy and by the time the shoot was over I completely forgot that the camera was on as Sara made me feel so relaxed and natural. From start to finish Sara was the consummate professional explaining to me how the shoot would work, whilst at the same time remain so very personable and making me feel at ease.

I am so thrilled with the way they have turned out I might actually be brave and have one up at home... well it would be rude not too!! Lol.

That said I can't praise Sara highly enough and her talents don't stop there, Sara specializes in all sorts of photography.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Lily's Allsorts Children's Felt Necklace Kit

Morning everyone, just a quick one this morning as we are busy, busy preparing our new designs... that said I thought I would give you a sneak peek at one of  our upcoming designs.  Introducing Lily's Allsorts Children's Felt Necklace Kit.  The kit will be available in June and will contain everything you need to make the above project.  This is a really easy project and is aimed at children aged 8 and over.

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5 brand new merino blends just landed in the boutique... get yours before it goes!!

Morning lovely makers and creators and generally lovely people, just a quick not to let you know that we have taken delivery this morning of 5 brand new merino blends.

Blends are extremely popular and great for making scarves so get yours before they go!!

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Fabulous first time Hottie Covers!!!

Chris & Verity on a recent Tigerlily Makes course

Morning lovely makers and creators, well today I am featuring the lovely Chris and Verity a mum and daughter team who attended a recent felt course together.  They both decided to make hot water bottle covers and what fantastic results, Verity is a textile student in Bath and is loving every aspect of her degree. Verity has been practicing all sorts of textile techniques and mediums and loves embroidery and now felt... so I am sure we will see the two mediums being brought to life very soon.

Thank you both for being such great company and for making such fab hottie covers!!

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FELT! by Gina: Fibre Love: Tigerlily Makes... A tribute by one of our felt-makers!!

Image courtesy of Felt by Gina

Well what can I say other than thank you so much to Gina from Felt by Gina for this fabulous tribute to Tigerlily Makes, please visit Gina's blog for the full post on this and get a first hand insight to the Tigerlily Makes experience.

I will be showcasing some of Gina's work and her felt-making journey over the next few days.

FELT! by Gina: Fibre Love: Tigerlily Makes...: "In a previous blogpost, I mentioned the scarf day course that sent me off on my love of creating scarves and wraps. (Now, I know that sprin..."

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Congratulations to HRH Prince William & Miss Catherine Middleton

Image courtesy of The Telegraph

Good morning to all of you on this very special day, I would like to take this opportunity to wish the Royal Couple a very happy day and a very happy life together.  I am just brimming with joy and happiness for the Royal Couple and for our country, this is the dawn of a very special and forward thinking era for our royals and royal heritage.

HRH Prince William &  Miss Catherine Middleton I am so happy for you both and may it long continue as you journey through life together. 

I wish you both happiness and peace and some time to yourselves to enjoy this day.

I will be at home with my family today sharing in the joy of the occasions and feeling incredibly blessed and lucky to be a part of the celebrations.

My love and best wishes to you all and to my family who have always been my rock and my biggest supporters in every aspect of my life.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Spring has sprung and brings a taste of summer...

Images Copyright Lisa Marie Olson Tigerlily Makes

Well today I thought I would share some recent pictures I took of our amazingly beautiful development, this is the view our lovely felt-makers have been able to experience whilst on their courses and whilst enjoying the sunshine over their alfresco lunches.

Heart of The Country Shopping Village is a truly wonderful place to come and spend the day shopping or felt-making, taking in a leisurely lunch allows you time to browse the many wonderful shops we have here including the much coveted designs that Boutique 11 stock.

Come be inspired and set free your creative streak... we all have one!!

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X 

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Jo's Summer Bright-Summer Fresh fabulous first time felted bag...

The lovely Jo is todays featured first time maker with her fabulous first time felted bag.  I just love the summer bright feel of this bag and the flower design which reminds of a little of of the type of effect you get when you make fimo clay beads!!

Thank you Jo for being such great company and for sharing your fabulous first time make with us.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Jo's amazing view from a room...

Introducing Jo's felt-tastic view from a room!! This is the view from Jo's holiday home on the south coast, the family spend many a happy holiday there watching the the boats bob along on the sea and it is that view that inspired first time maker to create the view from their home.

Love the your felt-tastic take on your view from a room Jo, thanks for being such great company!!

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Sara's splendifferous contemporary take on a theme...

Good morning lovely makers and creators, well today we are featuring the splendifferous contemporary picture that Sara based her picture on... taking inspiration from nature and other contemporary pieces Sara sketched an outline of her layout on paper first and used that has her guideline for layout the detail.  

A wonderfully uplifting piece, my thanks to Sara for being such great company and a wonderful picture.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Sally's truly tropical felt-tastic picture...

Hello lovely makers and creators today we are featuring Sally's truly tropical wet felted needle embellished pictures.

Sally has a regular spot abroad which she likes to visit and has taken many pictures of her favorite vista and it is this view that she based her picture on.  I think you will all agree that Sally has captured the essence of the scene.

Thank you Sally for choosing to come on another Tigerlily Makes course and for being such great company, you picture is stunning.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Dawns plum plumptious first time felted bag is plumerific...

Hi lovely makers and creators and generally lovely people, today we feature Dawns beautiful plum bag with a fab contemporary grey spot detail on the front.

Thank you dawn for being such great company and your first time felt bag is felt-tastic!!

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2011 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

First time felt-makers heartfelt lilac dream of a bag...

Morning lovely makers and creators, just thought I would share another fabulous first time make from one of our recent courses, introducing Rebecca's heartfelt lilac dream bag.

My thanks to Rebecca for being such great company and for doing such a great job on your felt-tastic bag!!

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Big Green Fair Today at Whittington Village Hall

Hi everyone, just a finally reminder that I am exhibiting at The Big Green Fair Whittington today I look forward to seeing many of you there. There will be lots of fabulous eco friendly makers, creators, foods and products.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Fab day making lovely felt bags with old blogging friend and lovely ladies...

Hello lovely makers and creators, well today I am very excited to share with you a lovely lady that I had known via blogging for over a year and finally got to meet!! Yay.  Meet Vicky AKA Blush-Dolly

Vicky is a very talented and inspirational paper crafts designer and designs for the likes of Pink Petticoat and her designs are amazing.  It is through our love of paper crafts that we met and have stayed in touch ever since.

Well on Wednesday 13th April Vicky broke her holiday to come and spend a day felt-making and what a day it was, it was so lovely to be able to spend the day with such a warm and friendly person and share a creative passion with another who is just as passionate as I am about creating and making.

Please visit Vicky's blog and support our UK talent, and if you see something you like why not commission Vicky to create a truly inspirational design for you.

I think you will all agree that Vicky's bag is truly beautiful and yes this was the first time that Vicky had ever felted, great job Vicky.  Thank you so much for your lovely company Vicky.

Stay tuned over the next few days for more felt-tastic first time makes.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

1st Birthday Charity Fundraiser was a feltastic success part TWO!!

So as promised here is the last of the pictures from our felt-tastic charity fundraiser my thanks to Mary pictured at top and Sally for helping support the day.

as you can see there was lots going on as well as an array of fabulous prizes which are still being collected nearly a week on!!

Next event is Newborough Well Dressing and then the fabulous Susan Crawford and her vintage knits.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

1st Birthday Charity Fundraiser was a feltastic success part one!!

Well what can I say, we couldn't have picked a better day for our 1st Birthday St Giles Charity Fundraiser, the weather was absolutely glorious and people made the most of enjoying the sunshine.  It was an incredibly full and busy day packed with demo after demo, the lovely Mary from Crazy Mary Crafts did a fabulous creative stitched textiles demo whilst Sally Williams from hug knitting wowed everyone with her lovely knitted eg cosy demonstration. I of course got to do what I love and share demonstrations on my passion felt-making.

We also had the pleasure of fabulous spinning demonstrations by the lovely pat who sat all day amazing passers by.

We raised a fabulous amount of money for the charity and Tigerlily Makes supported the charity further by donating a percentage from the days takings.

everyone enjoyed the complimentary nibbles and the day was rounded off with a champagne and cupcake reception whilst we handed raffle prizes over to new owners.

Thank you to all who volunteered their help and to all the lovely people whom came and supported the charity.

Will be back soon with more pictures and news from the day.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

1st Birthday Charity Fundraiser

just a quick reminder to say don't forget our fabulous 1st Birthday Charity fundraiser for St Giles Hospice this Saturday 9th April.  A full fun packed day of free demonstrations including, felt-making, knitting and creative stitched textiles, with glorious raffle prizes including not one but 2 hand felted designer bags by Tigerlily's own designer Lisa Marie Olson, a knitting kit by Hug Knitting, creative stitched textiles prize from Mary Halbert and he much coveted stitched daisy pictures, a hamper and a star prize of a one night free stay (subject to availability at the 5 star award winning guest house The Old Rectory Broseley and more!!

Come and share in the day, get your raffle ticket and join us for a complimentary Champagne reception at 5pm whilst we draw the raffle.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Dont forget our fabulous felt-making kits...

Just a quick reminder that we have replenished stocks of our fabulous felt-making kits and there is a special 10% discount off all felt-making kits this Saturday in celebration of the 1st Birthday Charity fundraiser.

We will be adding to our fabulous range of kits over the coming months and hope to have the complete range in place for this years Clothes Show Live.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Fab first time felt-makers and fab first time bag...

made at a Tigerlily Makes workshop by a fab first time felt maker

A huge thank you to the lovely first time felt-maker who made this lovely bag on a Tigerlily Makes workshop, please see the website for detail on how you can make your very own.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Fabulous first time felted bags from fabulous first time felt-makers

made at a Tigerlily Makes workshop by a fab first time felt maker

A huge thank you to the lovely first time felt-maker who made this lovely bag on a Tigerlily Makes workshop, please see the website for detail on how you can make your very own.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Fab first time felt-makers and fab first time bag...

made at a Tigerlily Makes workshop by a fab first time felt maker

A huge thank you to the lovely first time felt-maker who made this lovely bag on a Tigerlily Makes workshop, please see the website for detail on how you can make your very own.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.

Tigerlily Makes Fabulous Hand Felted Bag Give Away...

Hi lovely makers and creators, don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to be the very new and proud owner of one of Tigerlily Makes fabulous designer hand felted bags.  Make sure you pick up this months copy of Simply Homemade to enter the competition and be in with a chance of winning this fabulous prize.

Yes thats right just enter the competition and you could be the winner of the Dilly Dally Hand Felted Bag designed and created by Tigerlily's Lisa Marie Olson.

Thank you for taking the time to visit Tigerlily Makes The Felt-making Blog Lisa X All content and design work, including text, photos, etc are © copyright 2010 Lisa Marie Olson owner of Tigerlily Makes (unless otherwise stated and named whereby copyright resides with said named person)and cannot be copied without prior permission from the copyright owner.