Felting Workshop RSVP Website: Wool Packs, a Table Cap, and a Needle Line

A felting workshop breaks when the studio set eight places and eleven people are waiting for a wool pack, or when someone who said maybe arrives after the needles are counted onto the pads and expects a kit that is already at another chair. Wool, the seat each person gets, and the needles they may use are set before the first poke. The studio does not open another kit because a friend decided to come after the fiber order closed. A maybe does not hold a wool pack.

You can create a felting workshop RSVP that fills the seats the studio will set, records who will use a needle pack, and stops when those seats are full.

Ask what the studio will actually lay out

Call the studio before you send the link. Confirm this block is needle felting, not wet felting, because the supplies are not interchangeable. Write down how many seats they will set, how long the block is, and what is in the pack. If they will run eight seats for two hours, with one foam pad, a small batt of core wool, and a merino pack in the four colors they ordered, that is your cap. Ask the needle: a common beginner kit is three 38-gauge needles per person, counted out and counted back.

A seat is one person felting. Ask whether a friend who will not felt can sit in the room, and whether that person still counts toward the table limit. Pick one rule and write it on the page. A visitor does not take a needle from someone else's pad.

Ask the price and the last time you can cut the count without paying for wool the studio already pulled. If they will not resell an opened pack, print that rule. The project is one small piece from this pack, not a second figure.

Set a capacity limit on people who will felt, not on everyone who was invited. When the last seat is taken, the form should say the workshop is full. If the packs are already labeled, a late friend is not in this block.

The needle line is a list, not a wish

Ask the instructor which needles a beginner may use and which stay in the tin. Put that list on the page. Each person confirms they will use only those needles, keep them in the pad when they are not in the hand, and put a broken needle in the sharps tin rather than the trash. A lace needle, a reverse needle, or a request to wet-felt a hat should not appear on the form. If the studio runs a second block for people who already felt, that is a second list with its own table cap. Do not mix the two when the pads are already set.

People who want a different animal, a larger sculpture, or their own unwashed fleece should not take a beginner seat. You need a yes to this pack and these needles before the wool is bagged. Write the studio's age minimum next to the question. A younger guest does not share a parent's pad.

Sitting still, and a guest who is not a maybe

Needle felting means sitting at a table for the block, with the pad flat and the other hand out of the poke line. Ask about access needs the studio can actually meet: a chair with a back, a pad they can raise, or more light. If they cannot change the setup, say that before anyone claims a seat.

If you allow a guest, track a plus-one separately. That person needs their own seat, their own needle-line yes, and their own pack. One form that hides an extra felter will blow the table cap and the wool count. Say that on the page. A partner who picks up a needle is a second seat.

Collect an arrival time that matches the count-out, not a vague morning. The window might be 9:40 to 9:50 for a 10:00 start. Write what happens if someone is later than that: the pack goes to a standby who is already in the room, or it stays closed and the late person does not felt.

The moment the wool list is locked

The meeting point is the studio door the instructor named. Put the host's phone on the page. A screenshot of the invite is not a pack. The instructor matches names to the eight kits on the table.

Tie your deadline to the fiber order, the day the studio pulls wool and will not add a ninth pack. A common lock is five days before the block. After that, a late yes is a call about a cancellation, not a promise of another kit. Standbys do not have wool until you write back. A maybe does not hold a wool pack.

Export the list the morning you lock: attending or not, needle-line yes, party size, arrival time, access note the studio agreed to, and phone. A felting RSVP is finished when every seat has a named person, the pack matches wool the studio already pulled, and a late car knows whether they are felting or going home.