Category Archives: Felt

Thank You’s

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I received this lovely felted index card holder from Zed before Christmas. Isn’t it gorgeous? She used a variety of fibers and parts of it have a wonderful sheen.

 This is the back side and the colors are so yummy.

 She has used blanket stitch around all the edges. I am using it for keeping all my notes from my hand and stitch course. Perhaps I’ll be able to stay more organized now. Thanks Zed, I love it!

 Then I got two skeins of merino yarn from Nanci, my co-worker. The yarn is absolutely gorgeous.

She put on the container, future rock, trees, bark and leaves. She knows what I like! Thanks Nanci!

I got another fiber related gift but I didn’t get a photo of it yet, it just arrived last night. So that will have to wait until a later post. Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays!

Posted on by under Felt, Felting and Fiber Studio, forum

These are a couple of felt scrap ornaments that I made at the last minute. I did add a little loop of ribbon at the top for hanging. They use the same technique as the Felt Scrap Bowl Tutorial that I posted on the Fiber and Felting Studio. Please do check out our new virtual studio and if you’d like to join our forum, just click on the forum button in the sidebar. We welcome anyone interested in any kind of fiber arts as we just aren’t limiting members to felting.

Thanks for stopping by my blog this year, I appreciate all your kind comments. I hope that you have a wonderful holiday season. 

Felted Bag for New Tablet

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 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

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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

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 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.