Felt workshops of summer 2026
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Future Feltmakers Wacky Wishlist 1.-3.8.2026
Teachers: Elina Saari and Oona Jakku
Location: Korpikoti, Lahti
Price: 370€ both workshops 730€ (price includes teaching and accommodation at Korpikoti)
Participant amount: Workshop is almost full. 4 participants will be taken in on the workshop in order of registration, with 3 additional participants placed on the waiting list.
Materials: Needlefelts Ohukainen and Jääkarhu + merino and silkmerino tops (off-white and hand dyed)
Do you really want to learn feltmaking? This course makes it possible!
The course is designed for enthusiastic beginners—those who want to dive into a new hobby and dare to throw themselves into it wholeheartedly. And even though the course is aimed at beginners, more experienced feltmakers will also gain plenty of new ideas. For example, Elina has previously taught stemmed felt flowers and floral headpieces only to international private students.
Elina’s teaching style does not involve making sample pieces. Instead, you jump straight into feltmaking head first, and the course projects are unique, functional textile items.
The first day is all about flowers: after learning a basic flower, you move on to creating stemmed felt flowers and a floral headpiece. On the second day, you explore three-dimensional forms by making a sculptural felt wine cooler. On the final day, you will create a stunning and truly unique felt hat.
The projects are designed to progress so that each newly learned technique can be immediately applied to the next piece.
You don’t need any previous experience in feltmaking—we only ask for enthusiasm, an open mind, and a sense of humor. After this course, you’ll be very tired, very happy, and very proud of yourself and your beautiful felt designs. And you will probably have laughed more than you have in a long time!
Does this sound like your kind of thing? Will you come alone or with a group of friends? Don’t wait too long—Elina’s courses usually fill up quickly.
After this course, you’ll already be ready to join the next one, “Felted Beanies and Smoky Cauldrons”, which starts immediately afterwards!
Felted Beanies and Smoky Cauldrons 4.-6.8.2026
Teachers: Elina Saari and Oona Jakku
Location: Korpikoti, Lahti
Price: 395€ both workshops 730€ (price includes teaching and accommodation at Korpikoti)
Participant amount: Workshop is FULL, but 3 additional participants can be placed on the waiting list.
Materials: Superfine merinoknits, needlefelts Ohukainen and Jääkarhu and merinotops (off-white and hand dyed). Material list will be updated before summer.
On this course, we felt beanies and gloves!
The beanie bases designed by Elina are made of exceptionally fine merino wool, and through feltmaking we transform them into incredibly beautiful hats. These hats feel like beanies rather than traditional felt hats—they don’t itch even on the most sensitive scalps, they are durable, and they are easy to customize exactly to the wearer’s wishes, as sizing is never an issue.
On the “Felted Beanies and Smoky Cauldrons” course, you will felt both beanies and gloves in off-white as well as in colors. The off-white sets will be hand-dyed on the second day of the course.
More information about Korpikoti
Korpikoti is located on the shore of Lake Vesijärvi in Lahti (Kiikkulankatu 35 A, 15950 Lahti). Based on previous course feedback, Korpikoti has proven to be an excellent venue for felt making. It is a distinctive Art Nouveau villa with plenty of accommodation space and somehow reminiscent of the previous course location—perhaps because of the atmosphere, the path down to the lakeshore, and the wood-heated sauna.
Accommodation at Korpikoti is in twin rooms. The rooms are equipped with beds, mattresses, duvets, and pillows—please bring your own bed linen!
The kitchen at Korpikoti is well equipped so to keep things running as before, please bring easy-to-prepare food. Disposable tableware is also recommended if you prefer not to do dishes. Everyone is responsible for cleaning up after themselves and making/bringing their own food.
As the nearest grocery store is less than one kilometer away and Lahti offers plenty of takeaway food options, we don’t expect meals to pose any major challenges.
Sign up for for summer workshops
Felt Factions workshops in Finland
For over 10 years time Felt Faction has organized international summer felt workshops in Orimattila, Finland. Typically felt workshops take place at the end of July. People call these workshops an once in a lifetime experience as they take place in an idyllic Finnish scenery; middle of a forest and by a beautiful lake.
Saunas are heated every night and you are accompanied by a bunch of likeminded individuals all crazy for felt making. Also Elina’s style of teaching is rather unique – she and her team throw themselves into feltmaking frenzy and nobody leaves the felt workshop without fabulous designs to show and the knowledge of Elina’s techniques.
Would you like Elina to teach in your city?
If you are planning to organize a felt making workshop and wish to invite Elina to give master classes please feel free to enquire:
aki.leppanen@feltfaction.fi
