Meet The Supplier and a Giveaway
Meet the Supplier
Q-3 Three types of fibre you can’t live without?
Angelina fibres, I did not think I would like this fibre until I started using it and now love the bit of sparkle it adds. Also merino pre felt, and wool tops, especially dyed merino.
Q-2 Two tools you use all the time?
Twisted felting needles because they felt evenly throughout your piece and leave a smoother finished surface. The other tool has to be my Janome sewing machine, I love to be able to make practical but beautiful things like blinds and bags with cotton and linen fabrics.
Q-1 One fibre art technique you love the most?
Wet felting, both pictures and 3D forms. I enjoy the creating, and rinsing off the soap to see the final piece is great. Even if it’s not quite how you expected there is always something a little bit lovely about what has been made.
What is your business?
heidifeathers is an online felting supplies business
What kind of items do you sell?
We sell wool bundle mixes, needle felting kits, wet felting kits and drop spinning kits, pre felt bundles, nepps, glass eyes, felting needles, dyes, dyed tussah and mulberry silk fibres, scarves, angelina fibres and other felting tools, basically we are a one stop shop for felting.
What do you think makes your business different from similar ones?
We offer lots of colour! Lots of mixed items such as wool bundles, silk bundles, and pre felt bundles, giving you variety so you don’t have to choose. We stock a lot of felting related fibres, tools (including an extensive range of felting needles). We offer all the supplies you need so you can experiment with felting. We care about the customer and are always willing to offer help and also care about stocking good quality items.
What can you make with your kits?
Our kits all come with instruction. The needle felting kits come with a 24 page booklet with 6 projects and wool for plenty more. The wet felting kit has 3 projects and some other basic information about wet felting, again there is wool for lots of other ideas and we include a template and instruction for making a purse. The spinning kits explain how to spin wool tops in to two ply yarn using a drop spindle.
Where are you located?
We are an online business based in the Cotswolds
Where can we find you on the internet?
www.heidifeathers.com, also on etsy at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/sweetgorgeousthings and ebay http://stores.ebay.co.uk/heidifeathers
GIVEAWAY:
Heidi Feathers is offering a very generous prize for a giveaway. Because of the size and subsequent postage costs, this giveaway is only available for postage within the UK. That doesn’t mean you have to live in the UK to enter though, feel free to enter as long as the recipient is in the UK 🙂
The prize is a complete Wet Felting Kit. Zoe from Heidi Feathers says “The kit is a high quality wet felting kit which is fun and easy to use for any age, with everything you need to start wet felting (besides warm water)” The kit contains: 200g of the finest soft merino tops (21 Micron) in 20 beautiful colours including pinks, blues, greens, orange, yellow, greys, browns, purples, reds, black and white; one large piece of bubble wrap; one large piece of voile; one light weight rolling pin; one small cloth; one block of pure olive oil soap, and one bamboo rolling mat 45cm x 30. It also includes a 3D re-useable template for making a purse and instructions for three felting projects to make: A bead, a picture and a purse.
All you have to do to enter, is leave a comment to this post. Check back on Thursday 5th June for the winner to be announced, and please leave a comment on the announcement post so your details can be passed on to Zoe.
Thanks a lot to Heidi Feathers for answering our questions and for the very generous giveaway 🙂 Please have a look at the sites and the great variety of products.
47 thoughts on “Meet The Supplier and a Giveaway”
Great to find someone in the UK who sells such a broad range of colour prefelt, can’t believe I haven’t come across Heidi Feathers before! Thanks to the feltingandfiberstudio, as well, your posts are always useful and informative.
Thanks go to the forum for bringing Heidi Feathers to our attention. Lovely shop with gorgeous stock! I didn’t know that there were twisted felting needles – fascinating.
I’ve bought items from Heidi Feathers before. Their items are great and are always sent out promptly so you don’t have to wait too long for your goodies. Lovely to learn a little bit more about the shop here 🙂
No fair! I’m in the US so I’m not eligible.
I am not eligible for the giveaway, as I live in the U.S., but this looks like a good supplier.
I can’t open first two links (ebay link is fine) to Heidi Feathers shops unfortunately!…Thanks for an interesting post!
Thanks for pointing that out, Felicity, all fixed now! 🙂
I’ve bought from Heidi Feathers before and can attest to their quality. I’d love to win this! This would be Fate nudging me to try wet felting 😀
An interesting interview and always good to find more UK suppliers. I love wet felting although haven’t done any for a while. I must make an efforr and get back to it!
Best wishes
Ellie
It’s always fun to find a new felting supplier on-line, which is my preferred way of purchasing felting supplies. Like Lyn, I had never heard of twisted needles for needle-felting. If I win, I have a designated UK resident!
The ebay link worked ok for me but not the other two. All the fibers look great. The colors and weight of the prefelt look especially nice. the kits are a great idea for someone who wants to give wet felting a try. I’m in the US and have these supplies, but would be happy to let one of my UK friends have the prize if I were to win. 🙂
great to find a new-to-me supplier, thanks so much for the headsup, and the very generous give away
Thanks for the comments 🙂
Anyone outside of the US is welcome to enter and nominate any of the UK residents who enter for for the prize!
Im really glad to have found this shop. I’ve wanted to experiment with wet felting for a while, it’s nice to know a good supplier for everything I would need. This giveaway is awesome and so generous. I’d love to have ago at making a purse!
I’m moving to England! I could have it sent to my fiancé for me! I’ve ordered from Heidi Feathers too and it’s been fast service to the US. Hope I can win!
Gorgeous colours and the whole assortment is … ah, why don’t I live closer?
Don’t put me in the drawing but I just wanted to say thanks to Heidi Feathers for such a lovely giveaway. Good luck to all you UK residents 🙂
Love her bright, strong colors and good information
Your all in one dyes look really interesting, really keen to give those a try as they open up lots of dyeing possibilities. Thank you FFS for bringing another great UK supplier to our attention 🙂
Teri, I won’t even say what I thought ‘FFS’ stood for, but it took me a minute 🙂
Thanks for doing this generous giveaway and telling us about yourself and your business.
What a great giveaway. Hadn’t heard of Heidi Feathers before but will be having a good look – already taken with the hand dyed silk tops.
Thank you all for your kind comments. It’s good to see some of you who already know about Heidifeathers and it’s always good to meet newcomers, both to felting and Heidifeathers. Good luck with the giveaway and we wish you all the best for your felting futures.
What a lovely kit – the rolling mat looks far sturdier and more useful than the little flimsy sushi mat I use.
It’s always good to hear about different suppliers, especially ones that stock silk fibres — thanks for the interview.
It’s great to find a new supplier, thank you so much for this post and for hosting such a lovely giveaway. xx
love to be able to give this a try
Thanks for entering and checking out heidifeathers 🙂
Lovely giveaway, would love to give this a try with my daughter
I did not even know about wet felting.I would love to try it.
this looks like an amazing giveaway would love to try it for my work as an autistic support worker, they would love it!
Such lovely vibrant colours and everything that’s needed to try a new craft.
This is something that I have only just start4ed dabbling in but it’s really fun. Thank you for the opportunity to win such an amazing kit.
sounds so good 🙂 would love the chance to be able to try!
What a nice kit!
What a wonderful give away! Like so many others, I’d not heard of Heidi Feathers, but having looked at her site, I’ll certainly be visiting with my credit card next time! 🙂
Good luck Heidi Feathers, looks like this will generate lots more custom for you! 🙂
This seems wonderful! Would love to win and try out felting.
This looks amazing, I love what you can do with felt.
Fabulous, I have crocheted with wool and then felted in the washing machine, but this looks a lovely kit I’d really like to try
Thanks for the comments 🙂
There’s still a couple of days to go.
The colours in this kit are sumptuous. Your blog has given me loads of new ideas. I love what you’ve done with the scrap pieces. I quilt and it reminds me of scrap quilting- both a great way to recycle and prevent waste.
Thanks Frances 🙂 You’re welcome to come and join us on the forum and share your work, we’d love to see it.
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Oh gosh this is something high up on my list to try, please count me in – thank you x
What beautiful colours in that kit, i have never done felting before (well only once when i knitted a handbag and felted it in the machine) loved that
Beautiful kit, would live to try this method. Thanks for a great blog too.
oh no hope i am not to late to enter, fashionably late? what an amazing giveaway and a great interview. 🙂
No, not too late, I’ve not had my breakfast yet! I’ll post a comment when I’ve written down all the names saying when it’s ‘closed’ 🙂
OK. The Giveaway is closed now, I will announce the winner shortly on today’s post. Thanks for all the interest and the entries 🙂