Category Archives: Felting Book

First Time Felting

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I was honored when my publisher for The Complete Photo Guide to Felting contacted me and said they were creating a new book from my first book. It’s called First Time Felting.

I just got my advanced review copy in the mail and it’s exciting to see my name on another beautiful book. The bulk of the book is about needle felting but it also has information on wet felting and nuno felting too. So if you’re a beginner and want to learn about felting, this is the book for you. You can pre-order the book now. First Time Felting will be out in September and I hope you will see it in a book venue near you!

The Quarto Group has an entire series of First Time books so take a look if you’re interested in learning something new!

 

Finishing Off

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I have been going through my stash of items that I have made but haven’t completely finished or that just need labels. I am getting them ready to sell at my store. (By the way, we have a brand new website, if you’d like to check it out http://purplepomegranate.com/) I also have a few projects that need some hand stitching and I started on one of those.

 This one is called Avalanche Creek and is made with lots of different fibers. It has been wet felted and needle felted. The inspiration was from a photo I took in Glacier National Park. It was made for an example in my book, The Complete Photo Guide to Felting.

This piece is called Roots. It was made entirely on my Janome needle felting machine. It was also made for the book but sadly, none of the fifteen projects I developed for the book were included. I guess I’m too long winded. I had hopes that they would publish the projects separately but I haven’t heard anything from the publishing company about it. Roots also has a variety of fibers, yarn and fabric.

 Here’s a couple of closer views.

This was fun to make, I really enjoyed adding all those yarns on top.

 Here’s the hand stitching project. It is a nuno felted book cover. The threads are the colors I am going to use. I thought it needed a little brightening up.

Here’s a closer view. Chain stitch around the prefelt orange pieces. I think this is going to be a kind of paisley design. I have lots more stitching to do on this as I’m going to cover lots of the white.

Beyond Nuno – A Guide to Using Fabrics in Wet Felting

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One of my partner’s at The Felting and Fiber Studio, Zed, has recently released her first e-book called Beyond Nuno – A Guide to Using Fabrics in Wet Felting. 

You can check out the book on Zed’s personal blog and download the book instantly. Zed has really outdone herself with this book. The photos are absolutely fabulous and you can zoom way in to see the details plus the book is full of very useful information about how various fabrics work with wool. This book doesn’t give you a few projects with minimal instructions, it provides very detailed ways to use a variety of different fabrics in felting so that you can explore these ideas easily and add them into your repertoire. Go check it out!

Artistically Speaking Talk Show

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Exciting news! I’m going to be on the Artistically Speaking Talk Show this weekend, Sunday October 28 at 6:30 pm ET. Rebecca Parsons is the host of the show and every week she talks with a different artist about their art, their life and what inspires them creatively.

I will be talking about felting and my book The Complete Photo Guide to Felting. If you can’t catch the show when it’s on the air, don’t worry. You can listen to the show at any time. Just go to the link above and click on the episode for October 28th. There are lots of other broadcasts available for listening if you’d like to hear what other people are doing in their creative lives. If you are able to listen to the live show, there is a chat room section where you can ask questions or talk to others about felting. So come join in the fun!