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An Old Piece and a New Piece
I only realised yesterday when I started to plan my blog post, that all my photos are still on my old hard drive. I was looking for another felt scrap piece that I recently started on when I came across … Continue reading
Posted in natural wools, Wet Felting, Wool
Tagged alpaca, Black Welsh Mountain, Bluefaced Leicester, collage, felt scraps, gotland, jacob, Lincoln, Manx Loaghtan, merino, natural. yorkshire, silk noil, wet felting, Zwartble
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Felt Cuffs in Progress
This week I am working on a few cuffs. These will have bubbles in them so they have to start out really long as when I put the marbles in them to get the bubbles they shrink fast. These are … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Nuno Felting, Prefelt, Wet Felting, Wool
Tagged felt, felting, nuno felt, prefelt, silk, Silk throwsters waste, wet felting
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Felted Flowers
It has been busy around here as we are starting at a new Farmers’ market this weekend and we have been getting ready. This was difficult because they hadn’t sent us any thing about being accepted until a few days … Continue reading
Posted in Needle Felting, Uncategorized, Wet Felting, Wool
Tagged felt, felt flowers, felting, flower pins, grab bag, needle felting, wet felting, wool
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OHS Conference
Here are some more pictures from the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners Conference. It was a really nice venue with tons of good food and really nice rooms this is the courtyard where there where two magnolia trees in full bloom and … Continue reading
Posted in Fairs and Shows, Uncategorized, Wool
Tagged felting, OHS, ontario handweavers, spinning, vendor mall, weaving, wet felting
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Future Felting
Future felting comes from lambs. Here are some of this years lambs outside enjoying the spring sunshine. Most of our lambs were born in the winter so they are not tiny anymore but they are very cute non the less. … Continue reading
Posted in Sheep Farming, Uncategorized, Wool
Tagged animals, calf, felt, goose, lambs, sheep farming, wool
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A Fiber Nest
I was planning on posting about my friend Paula’s recent trip to New York City and her visit to several cool fabric shops. But Paula got distracted and didn’t get the photos sent to me. Instead, she sent me photos … Continue reading
Bird Houses are Moving Along
Bird houses are moving along. After I cut the holes I rolled them a little I put them in to some pantyhose tops for a trip through the dryer to get some of the fulling done. They have balloons inside … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Dyeing, Wet Felting, Wool
Tagged bird houses, dyeing, felt, felting, merino, merino wool, romney, wet felting, wool
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Threads and Yarns
Around this time last year I was still doing the Take A Stitch Tuesday challenge. I struggled with it, and didn’t always enjoy it, but I did like what I produced when I used some felt offcuts from a piece … Continue reading
Posted in Mixed Media, Other Fibers, Spinning, Wool
Tagged cat cave, drop spindle, fabrics, inspiration, natural fibres, natural wools, spindle, spinning, stitching, thread, yarn
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The History of Felt
I was actually supposed to present my first video today but after staying up half the night and still not getting the video completed, I decided that the video debut will have to wait. Hopefully, I will get it uploaded … Continue reading
