I am back again from a wonderfull teaching tour to Humanita Art Center in Switzerland.The title of the course was "Dogs in sheep-clothes".
Walter and Maya Stenz owns Humanita Art Center and it is a wonderfull place to teach. It is lying in a narrow valley down at the Italian border and the buildings are the original stonehouses, that are completely restored inside and then there is a beautiful wooden house for the courses.
The place is a hotel too and they have also frequently music events.
Maya herself is a very good feltmaker, who has started her own felteducation at the center, where she teaches herself and where international known feltmakers come and teach as a part of this education.

Maya Stenz, Who also joined the course.

For nearly one year I have worked with a new book, that has the working title "FELT -easy and fun".
I have been asked many times to write a book that was made for beginners, who wants to have something easy to start with  -and for children, who with this book will be able to sit and make the models when they work from the instruction photos.
The idea behind the book is, that the models are build up in a very simple way, but they are although very sweet and the funny thing is, that you can move the parts of the model around and that way you can make all kinds of variations of each figure, so you can even make theatre with them when you place them or play with them, because they are very movable and that way they look so much alive.

The book will be published in the autumn and will be translated to English later.

My editor Claus Dalby from Klematis Publishers is making the photos for the book.

Example of the variations of the polar bear.