Current Members

Liz is an artisan Feltmaker with a love of colour and texture. Focusing on traditional feltmaking techniques, her work combines art with a love for making wearable useable items. Embracing the dexterity of working with fibre she finds transforming a sheep’s fleece into fabric endlessly fascinating. 

 Liz has a love for making, her inspiration and motivation is defined by strong colour combinations and colour blends. Using hand dyed wool, silks and hand spun yarns adding fine detail, her work is characteristic of artisan felted work.  She has a desire to make innovative and original artwork with a tactile dimension, favouring the unique with a contemporary and fun approach.    

Instagram @everything_felt 

Lynn is perhaps best known as UpandDownDale in the felt making world; creating wet felted textile art, embellished with free motion machine embroidery, hand stitch or both! Within her work she uses a combination of natural materials that include wool, silk and linen.    

Living by the sea and surrounded by the North York Moors National Park, Lynn's artistic focus is currently on the natural minutia of her surroundings, such as the delicate patterns and intricacies of moss and lichen or limpet shells found on the beach.    

She frequently returns to her first love, landscapes, and can often be found with her camera chasing the light after a good storm. 

Lynn is a member of S.E.W and the IFA 

Instagram @UpandDownDale

Designer Feltmaker Vivienne Morpeth creates unique hand felt Art Wear and interior art pieces. Using British fleece, merino wool and hand dyed silk fabrics, she specialises in Nuno felting and felting with raw fleeces. Her rich felt textures and colour tones in both wet and dry felting draw inspiration from the coastal landscape and vast open skies around her studio in North Lincolnshire. With 30 years felting practice, a member of the International Feltmakers Association, Vivienne teaches and exhibits extensively throughout the UK and Europe, previously awarded an Arts Council funded residency and British Travel Award to felt in Australia, she accepts commissions and workshop invitations.  

Instagram @Vivienne_morpeth

Textile Artist Sue Wood creates needle felted artworks using merino wool tops as her drawing medium. She discovered the tactile quality and its versatility whilst studying for her Degree in Textile Design.  Sue then combines a range of textile experimental techniques, hand stitch & free machine embroidery, along with eco-botanically printed fine wool fabric and paper to enhance and complete each artwork.  

With an inherent love of the natural world having grown up on a Yorkshire Dairy farm near the coast, Sue continues to take inspiration, and copious photographs, on her daily dog walks. Currently her favourite subjects are Hares, many bird varieties and more recently Highland cows.

Instagram @Suewood308

Cath is a spinner who loves converting raw fleece into beautiful yarns; she also dyes, felts, weaves and knits. She loves sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm with others, inspiring them to explore fibre. 

Since establishing Beechwood Crafts in 2019, Cath has developed a reputation for fun and informative courses delivered in a beautiful setting. Since lockdown her tutoring has expanded across the world on Zoom.   

Raised in Macclesfield, a silk town in the foothills of the Pennines, Cath moved to Yorkshire when she married so considers herself an honorary Yorkshire-woman. Fabric and fibre provided relaxation for Cath throughout a career in the NHS.  A love of history inspires her collection of antique spinning wheels, and she loves the connection her crafts have with nature and history.  

Sue is co-author of 'Inspired to Spin' ISBN : 978-1-399961028

Instagram @Beechwoodcraft

Guest artist 2024.

Olga is an artisan Feltmaker and a great supporter of slow fashion. 

Her scientific background allows her to focus upon optimising methods for producing a very high quality felt. A material suitable for creating beautiful hats and comfortable durable foot ware. 

She loves experimenting with combinations of different types of wool and making the wet felting process more efficient. The shape of Olga’s hats are achieved from a specific layout of wool fibres and the density of the felt. The hats are not artificially stiffened, they are naturally wind and shower proof. Olga’s slippers are super warm and hardwearing.

Instagram @seamlessmillinery

Guest Artist 2024

Sue is a shepherdess, spinner and woolcrafter. She learnt to knit at school then really started knitting when at home with her three small children. Living on a farm led Sue to learning to spin on a drop spindle with a bought in fleece. This progressed to a spinning wheel and a Jacob sheep, the rest they say is history! Sue now has a flock of Jacob and Jacob cross sheep, much of the wool is spun in a local mill. The best fleeces are kept for hand spinning. The colours are kept natural producing lovely shades of cream and grey.
Previously Sue has worked with a London based men's fashion designer producing handspun, hand-knitted sweaters. These were exhibited at Mens London fashion week.
Garments are all hand knitted by Sue. She also supplies beautiful aran weight hanks and wool tops that are perfect for felting projects and spinning.