Woollen animals and figures will go on show as part of a special hobbies exhibition this summer. Mandy Smith, from Tipton, enjoys needle felting, or sculpting with wool, and is taking part in Come As ...

In large-scale, immaterial site-specific installations, she uses light and sound, void and reflection as core ...

Needle felting is one of those cool crafts that can yield incredible, lifelike masterpieces—or fuzzy, misshapen blobs of wool ...