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Giveaway—Beyond Nuno PDF e-book

Giveaway—Beyond Nuno PDF e-book

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coverAs a big Thank You for all the support I’ve had since I started felting and blogging, I’m giving away a copy of my new PDF e-book called Beyond Nuno. It’s all about using different fabrics in wet felting, why and how they felt the way they do, how different effects are achieved etc. I hope to show that there’s more to nuno felting than just ruffled silk scarves and that it is possible to control the outcome of nuno felting. For more details you can read the full blurb on Craftsy or my blog.

You don’t need to do anything special to enter, just leave a comment on this post. If you’d like to spread the word through your blog or facebook etc, it would be very much appreciated but it isn’t a requirement. I will randomly draw the winner 8 days from now on Monday 4th March 2013, so please check back to see if you’ve won and leave a comment on the announcement post so I can contact you with the download information.

compilation of pagesGood Luck!  🙂

This Giveaway is now closed, to see the winner, please click here.

Giveaway Winner

Giveaway Winner

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Thanks a lot to everyone who entered the Bits and Pieces Giveaway this week, it was really nice to see all the great comments 🙂  The lucky winner is …..

Congratulations, Isabell 🙂  Please can you leave a comment on this post so I can contact you for your postal address, thanks a lot 🙂

I’ve been having a clear out lately and have spent a lot of time going through smelly dusty bags and boxes from the loft. Most of them contain 20 years of birthday and Christmas cards, clothes I’ll never wear again but can’t bear to part with or cassette tapes from around 1983-1987 🙂  But I got a really nice surprise when I opened one of the bags and discovered 5 huge silk scarves, each about 43 inches square! I think I’ll be doing some nuno felting fairly soon!

I’ve been thinking about Karen’s 4th Quarter Studio Challenge about the Weather recently which isn’t hard being British, apart from tea it’s what we think about most 🙂  I saw this cloud this morning and thought I’d take a photo to add to my collection.

I haven’t quite decided what I’ll do yet, but we often have 4 seasons in a day here, so I’m spoilt for choice 🙂

Giveaway-Bits and Pieces

Giveaway-Bits and Pieces

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I thought it was time I did another Giveaway 🙂  I’ve gone through my stash of embellishment fabrics, fibres and scraps and put together a package that should give you plenty of choices for adding extras to your felt creations. These are some gorgeous metallic novelty yarns/fancy fibres. There are 5 different ones each about 3 metres long.

There are also some shorter lengths of novelty yarns in all different colours and types.

These gorgeous crinkly fibres are from another novelty yarn that I unravelled. I used a lot of them in this piece here.


There are some pieces and scraps of silk:

Organza

Gratuitous supermacro of organza 🙂

and synthetic fabrics

There is also some Cotton Noil

And some natural fibres and top, Top L-R Egyptian Cotton fibre, Crimped Viscose fibre, Bamboo Fibre. Bottom L-R: Flax, Ramie, Banana top.


If you’d like to win this fabric and fibre giveaway, simply comment on this post. I’ll announce the winner Next Sunday, 21st October. Please can the winner comment on the announcement post within 2 days so I can contact you for your postal address, thanks a lot 🙂

FORUM
Most of our readers know about our Forum, but if you don’t, it’s a community of felting and fibre artists from around the world who get together to chat and ask each other questions about anything felt, fabric or fibre related…or chat about the usual things like the weather 🙂  We love reading the comments here on the blog and visiting the blogs of anyone who posts and has a link to theirs, and it’d be nice to be able to keep in touch more and build more community links. We’re all interested in the fibre arts, so if your interests are felting, mixed media, spinning, weaving, freeform crochet or something else we need to know about, come and join us, share photos of what you’re working on, ask for advice, give help to fellow fibre artists, meet friends and have fun!

And the Winner is… Plus Felting Around the Web

And the Winner is… Plus Felting Around the Web

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I know you’ve all been waiting on pins and needles to see who won the book give away for The Complete Photo Guide to Felting. I used a random number generator. There were 58 entries and the number chosen was 49. That number corresponded to Linda Whitmore’s comment. Linda, please e-mail me your snail mail address to info at purplepomegranate dot com (I spelled it all out to avoid spammers, but write it like a regular e-mail address). Linda, I need to hear from you within 48 hours. If I haven’t gotten your response by that time, I will re-draw for another winner. I want to get the book in the mail to you by Monday at the latest. Thanks to everyone who entered the give away. I wish I had 58 books to give away so each of you could have one. It’s nice to hear from everyone, I hope you’ll comment on our regular posts more often too. 🙂

And just to make this post a bit more interesting, I have included some fun stuff I’ve found around the web in the last couple of weeks.

Tutorial for adding eyes and ears (needle felting) by krex

Information from Diane about Wool Moths

GalaFilc’s Sunflower Scarf and Bag

Bure Bure’s Felt Derby Style Shoes

Ikonium Studio’s Student Work

Jane’s Felted Geodes

Jana’s Resist Dyeing

Claire Moynihan’s Bug Balls

Plastic Utensil Sculptures by Carlos Bonil

Yarn Bombed Airplane

Win The Complete Photo Guide to Felting

Win The Complete Photo Guide to Felting

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I’m hosting a give away of an autographed book to thank all you faithful readers for your support. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment. I would really appreciate it if you would spread the word about the give away by posting about it on your blog, Facebook or some other online forum. But you don’t have to jump through any hoops to win. Just leave a comment.

I will randomly draw a name a week from today on August 23rd so check back then to see if you’re the winner. There are no restrictions on where you’re from either. I’ll send the book to anywhere in the world. You’ll need to get me your snail mail address so if I don’t here back from the winner within 48 hours, I will draw another winner.

Even if you already have the book, don’t feel shy about entering. You could always donate it to your local library or give it as a gift. Also, if you’ve read the book, I’d really appreciate it if you would post a review on Amazon or other book sites.

Good Luck! Drawing Completed – Winner is Linda Whitmore

Giveaway Winner and some Texture photos

Giveaway Winner and some Texture photos

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The winner of the notebook giveaway is….. Mattie! 🙂 

Thanks to everyone who joined in and left nice comments.

Textures

I’ve been working on a project about using ‘other’ fibres in felting and noticed that ‘texture’ has been a common theme lately. I thought I’d post some photos showing different textures from wet felted pieces I’ve made. This first piece is green organza which was used as a base:

This is the top, strips of organza over blocks of coloured Merino:

This is another organza base, a slightly stiffer gold:

This is a piece of cerise organza:

This is a close up of silk in textured nuno felting:

This is a blue-green piece of textured felt, made with lots of layers and inclusions and felted mostly in the washing machine:
 
And lastly, this is a piece of texture felt using reds, pinks, oranges and yellow shades:
 

Do you have any photos of textural felt? How do you like to create it? Do you like to add to your felt to create texture with stitch or other fabrics and fibres? I’d love to see photos of your work 🙂

Giveaway

Giveaway

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We thought it was time for another giveaway!

A few weeks ago I did a post about a piece of felt I’d made with lots of natural fibres, with the intention of making a notebook cover out of it. Well, I’ve finally made the cover 🙂 So if you’d like to win a notebook with a handmade, hand sewn felt cover, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post.

This is the front of the book:

Back:

And inside:

The notebook is lined and a standard A6 size, which is about 4.25 x 6 inches.

The competition ends next Tuesday at 10 am UK time. I will announce the winner sometime on Tuesday, so please check back then, and if you have won, please leave a comment on the post so I can contact you for shipping info. Thanks a lot and Good Luck!

Our First Giveaway

Our First Giveaway

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Our First Give Away

We’ve decided to have a giveaway in celebration of our new Felting and Fibre Studio and also just for fun! To enter and win this fibre pack you need to leave a comment on this post for one entry. Competition will be for 1 week and the winner will be announced by random number draw.

The pack contains just over 100grms of Fibre

Some hand dyed and carded small batts

Romney Fibre

Merino Roving

Natural Merino Roving

Merino Silk Blend

Natural Silk Noil

Silk ribbon

                        This is a fun pack to use in your fibre arts.

Competion will end on  Sunday the 16th at 9.00pm Australian Time