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Another Exciting Announcement!

Posted on by under Felting Book

After six months of hard work, sending off 12 boxes of equipment, samples and felting supplies, there is a cover for my book. The book, published by Creative Publishing int’l, will be available in August of 2012 and it’s already listed on Amazon. If you would like an autographed copy, I am making a list so I know approximately how many books I will need to order. There is no obligation to buy, but if you’re interested, please e-mail me at info(at)purplepomegranate(dot)com. Include CPG Felting in the subject line of your e-mail.

It is really exciting seeing the book come together. Having never been through the process before, it has been an eye opener. Thanks to everyone who helped out with the book, I really appreciate all your assistance.

Announcements, announcements, announcements…

Posted on by under Felting and Fiber Studio

The Felting and Fiber Studio

Three of my online friends and I have started a new website that is all about felting and fiber. Ann, Karen, Zed and I have begun a new venture together. There is lots of information on the site already and we’ll be adding loads more. We’d love to have you check it out and let us know what you think. 
I’ll still be posting here but we’ll be holding fun challenges and giving away free stuff and having fun fiber parties at The Felting and Fiber Studio so don’t miss it! Just click on the button above and it will take you right to the new site. Come join in all the fun 🙂

Felted Bag for New Tablet

Posted on by under Felt, nuno felting

 Here’s the finished bag that I started with my local fiber art group last Friday. I used Merino and hand dyed silk habotai. I had also put some silk under the flap but pulled it off as I didn’t like it. The bag started out white but I had a request to dye it dark green.

 Here’s a close up of the silk nuno felted on the front flap. It is more green than this photo shows.

And here’s the tablet that’s going to be in the bag. We’ll just mainly use it for traveling. The others in the group haven’t finished their bags yet but I’ll show you photos of those next month.

Squirrel Update

Posted on by under Felt

I posted earlier about the squirrel attacking my felt bird house. I took the bird house down and finally got around to repairing it. This is what was left of the hanging strap. It was double thickness felt made around a resist and you can see how the squirrel had almost chewed through completely.

I cut off the strap and then sewed a very small loop back to the bird house. Then I hung it back up on a metal hook. It’s been up for several days now and it doesn’t appear to have been attacked again. Hopefully, it will make it through the winter. I have my doubts that any birds will nest in these but I thought I would give them a try and see what happens. I’ll let you know if any birds take up residence.

 We have a forecast for another La Nina winter which means a long, cold, snowy winter is upon us. We have had a few days with a skiff of snow but nothing heavy yet.

It is supposed to snow this weekend with valley accumulations. So we’ve got the snow shovels ready. I think I need to go visit Karen in Australia :0)

November Felting Party

Posted on by under Felt, nuno felting

 We had another felting party today. The photo above is from October’s felting party and Paula was making a scarf with pencil roving and winding it around the bubble wrap. She said it took her between 6-8 hours to lay out. She then covered the pencil roving and bubble wrap with plastic and rolled it. Since it was so long, she could only roll one half of it at a time.

 But look at the result! Isn’t it gorgeous? I really like the result but I don’t think I have the patience to make one. Perhaps a smaller one to add to the front of a bag or notebook cover…

The project we worked on today was an idea I had about making nuno felted flowers. I have made lots of felted flowers before but thought it would be interesting to use the wool to hold numerous layers of silk petals together. I made the bottom left, top center and bottom right ones. Paula made the other two. They are really quite easy to make. We used prefelt cut in small circles layered between the petals of the flowers that include a variety of silks as well as some netting. Now to add a pin back and I’ll have several quick and easy nuno felted flower pins.