Finished Makes From Our Fabulous Felt Slipper Course

It is will great excitement I bring you today's blog post, live from the top of Tigerlily Towers!

You may remember our slipper course from last month and the great fun we all had making our slippers, well luckily I can now share some makes from that day.


Laurie had never felted before, but wanted to learn how to felt as she has her very own flock of sheep! Yes her very own flock of sheep. Laurie and her husband have a farm in Staffordshire as well as having another day job on top. Keeping sheep on their farm meant that the fleece was generally going to waste and so Laurie put her thinking cap on as to how to best utilise this. Laurie came on the course having never done any wet felting before, she had dabbled in needle felting but not wet felting. I think I shall let Laurie's slipper do the talking and you can see you for yourself what beautiful things can be achieved in felt, having not had any previous experience.

Laurie's Finished Slipper - there is another to match! 

Another lady that came on the course was the lovely Amanda a very experienced and accomplished crafter. Amanda had wanted to make slippers for such a long time and had even had a go at felting some before she came on the course, but felt (if you pardon the pun) that they weren't quite right. So after a few emails, Amanda decided to book on the course and the results are fabulous. Amanda chose a beautiful colour combination and has finished them with suede slipper soles. 

Amanda's Slippers

Thank yo so much to both ladies for letting me share your wonderful creations on my blog. It was a great fun day and I am delighted you have found a new craft. 

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Christmas Gift Idea's Get ahead now!

Hello my lovely makers, creators and all round lovely people! Well we know its only August, but already I am preparing Christmas stock and getting set for the festive season, so with that in mind I have decided to offer you all a 20% discount on any products in the Tigerlily Makes boutique.

This will be a great way to get started, with either one of our fabulous kits to treat yourself or for you to make and give as a gift, or to give a kit as a gift for the maker in your life.

With so many kits to choose from you won't be stuck for choice, alternatively you could give the gift of a felt-making course buy buying a course voucher valid for 12 months. Simply quote CELEBRATE_20 at the check out to receive your automatic discount.

But for now I will leave you with a sample selection of videos more info about our ranges.

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Glorously Glorious Hand Felted Slippers made by Katherine on a lovely felt making day

Well hello and welcome lovely makers, creators and all round lovely people, today I have a very special share with you... I want to share a pair of hand felted slippers made by the lovely Katherine on a recent Tigerlily Makes felt slipper course.

Katherine has recently found a love of felting so has already enjoyed some of the benefits at home, but nonetheless wanted to give the art of felted slippers ago. As our slipper courses are very popular, I was in the position of getting extra requests for the course, so I decided to run a private slipper course from my home in the midlands. There were just 4 of us including myself and it was a brilliant day of lovely felting with wonderful company and beautifully finished slippers. 

We had lots of my finished slipper samples on display for people to look at for inspiration, colour combinations and just general shapes so you can imagine the fun we had when we were all trying to decide shapes, finishing embellishments and colour combinations!

I have blogged previously about Shelly's and Sally's slippers, but now I can share with you the finished slippers by Katherine. Katherine is an amazing woman, she has a full time job, carer to hubby, good friend and all round crafty person. Katherine also suffers from joint problems that can be really painful and sometimes it can take a while for Katherine to finish her projects, but finish them she does and with great style.

So below is Katherine's finished pair, lovely colour combinations were chosen and Katherine went for one of my favourite styles the dolly shoe style, she then finished with some handmade flowers that were available to take with her on the day and accompanied them with this beautiful felted leaf duo that she made at home, which I think compliment the slippers beautifully. I have tended to add leaf detail to nearly every one of my felted projects and after seeing Katherine's leaves... I may well just have to take a leaf out of Katherine's book (if you pardon the pun) and add some leaf type detail to a pair of my slippers. But just take a look at these beauties for yourself.

But for now keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep felting!

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Tigerlily Makes Feltastic Courses...

Hello and welcome to the latest segment of the Tigerlily Makes blog. Here at Tigerlily Towers we are always busy preparing for our shows, retailers or our courses. So today's blog is a video blog to talk about just two of our popular courses, what you can expect and the type of projects you could be making very soon on one of one day felt making days.

But for now keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep felting!

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Slippertastic Slipper Course today all ready to go

Hi lovely makers creators and all round lovely people, just thought I would drop by and share a lovely pic of our creative space.

This is all set up and ready to go for our private slipper course today.

Three lovely ladies will be arriving shortly for some felt slippertastic fun, with lovely teas, cake and lunch to keep us all going I am sure we will make great things.

Have a great day!

Happy Eggstraordninary Easter!

Wishing you all a very, very happy Easter. Put your feet up, drink tea, grab yourself some eggstraordinary eggs & egg cosies and indulge in some wonderful R & R.

So with the "Bella Blossom Slippers", the "Very Properly Done Egg Cosies and copious amounts of tea, we all here at Tigerlily Makes hope you have everything for a warm, woolly, cosy and fully felted Easter break.

Handmade buttons by Skye German at Button It.

In  the meantime keeeeeeeep felting!

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Spot light on our slipper courses :)

A very good morning to you, wonderfully warm, lovely and generally all round wonderful people.  This morning I thought I would direct the spot light o our feltastically fabulous and very popular slipper courses.

Are slipper course have been growing in demand since the launch of my slipper designs, the fact that this beautiful ruby slippers can be really worn and are incredibly comfortable and warm is really appealing. They can can be made in a whole variety of styles and colours and are just adorable to have perfectly poised in situ.

Our slippers are also becoming popular with our brides to be and I have actually made a number of pairs for real life brides, hens are choosing to come on the courses so that they can make their very own unique and handmade by them pair.

Course last a day, cost includes all materials including a pair of slipper lasts in your size that you get to keep and re-use again. We also have lots of fun, drink tea and eat lots of cake. for more info on our feltastic slipper course just head over to our slipper course page :)

But for now keeeeeeeeep felting!
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Don't forget our feltastic courses!

Evening peeps, just thought I would stop by with big cheery and fully felted waves and let you know about our courses.  Are courses are for all levels and absolutely no experience is necessary, as there is no sewing, knitting, stitchery or crochet required to create wonderful peices like the ones pictured. Check out our courses page for more info :)

But for now keeeep felting :) x
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Tigerlily Makes Plumb Twist Collection

Today I bring you the plumb twist collection, these rich berry shades when added with just a little colour from the sweet candy range will add a new dimension to your project.

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Nautical Shades Compliment Sweet Candy Tones & Feeling with Felt Group

Nautical shades of denim, navy and blue are todays theme and will marry themselves with some of the shades from the previous post.

Tonight is the first Feeling with Felt group, please feel free to turn up to the social monthly group to develop your projects, costs just £5.00 including refreshments, materials will be additional and cost will vary depending on what your working on.  Time £6.30 - 9.30pm

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Designing new slippers

Hi everyone, only a quick one today as am in the process of making my new slippers, will be back over the next few days with a sneak peak!!

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Purple Passion Felted Bowl gets lots of attention...

Hi everyone, well we have seen the end of week 3 and we are now at the start of week 4 in the felt boutique. I thought I would share with you a felt bowl that I made as a sample for custom orders, though it has been getting rather a lot of attention in the boutique and I am sure that I could have sold it several times over. almost everyone who has come in has commented on it and asked if it is for sale.

I guess I thought when setting up the shop that people would be more interested in making it... which they are, but there has been a large number of people expressing a sincere interest to purchase a felted item.  So with that in mind I have been busily making in anticipation of my official opening, sneak peeks to come on those later.

Well its actually my day off today, but I am at home busy doing admin and boring stuff so that I can create when I return to the boutique tomorrow :)

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