January 2013
2 posts
October 2012
2 posts
1 tag
10 simple felting tutorials for kids and adults
10 simple felting tutorials from salihan crafts please click here
7 tags
Felted Baubles Kit
The latest kit from heidifeathers is a bit a christmas theamed one, felted baubles! These are very simple to make but lovely to look at and make great gifts for yourself or others. The kit includes instructions with photos, the wool and angelina fibres to make 4 of these simple but eligant decorations for your christmas tree.
September 2012
1 post
6 tags
A Guide to Felting Needles
If you would like more infomation on which felting needle to use or buy please see my guide to felting needles http://heidifeathers.com/pages/a-guide-to-felting-needles
August 2012
3 posts
3 tags
How to make a felted button
This is a very useful needle felted item. Buttons are useful for so, so many crafts. If you wet felt purses or bags what better finishing touch than a beautiful needle felted button! See my poppet blog for simple instructions
4 tags
How to make a felted cat cave! (with spikes!)
I like the feting and fibre studio blog by a small group of felters giving tip and infomation on fibres tecniques and some tutorials as well. So click here to find out how to make a cat cave
3 tags
Felted mushrooms
The lastest customer makes I would like to share with you are by Fibre artisan Adrienne Brown To see more of her work please see her etsy shop
July 2012
1 post
2 tags
Simple Spinning
When learing to spin with a drop spindle I found these videos by theartofmegan very good and easy to follow. She goes through from drafting, spinning, to making balls and plying. See my shop for a simple drop spindle spinning kit
June 2012
1 post
4 tags
Kids Easy Finger Pupets
Below Is an easy wet felted make for kids of all ages. From blog Whip up by guest blogger mossy. Finger Puppets
May 2012
1 post
How to make friends...
Today I have started to make a needle felted person, I am currently unsure whether it is male or female. I will post a picure when it is complete. In the mean time I have found some enchanting figues from Mel Larsen
Making your own felted friends is a great starting point for 3D needle felting. I love my customer Amanda’s little friend
very cute!
April 2012
9 posts
7 tags
Wet felted flowers
I have now launched my theamed colour packs of merino wool bundles which are ‘serenity’, ‘playful’ , ‘toy box’, ‘animal’, and ’blooming’ colours availiable here. One website which I love is rosiepink which has some beautiful pieces (see pictures) including info on felting, (wet and needle) spinning and sewing and how to combine all of...
4 tags
How to make a needle holder for your felting...
How to Make a Needle Holder for Your Felting Needles.
You will need:
an empty spice jar, washed, with label and lid removed
a piece of loose woven fabric such as linen or cotton, test to see if a felting needle will go through fairly easily
a piece of string approx 12” in length
approx 5g of wool roving - any colour you like
a washing up sponge (scourer removed) or...
5 tags
Flowers made with the Clover Hani Ami Weaving Loom...
Flower made on a clover hani ami weaving loom the flowers made are using hand spun wool and silk . This was a first attempt at using the loom and it was both easy and enjoyable to use. There are pleany of knitted items which one or more of these flower will add some beauty.
3 tags
Amazing Felted Animals
Needle felting is a very easy hobby to start, it’s not difficult to learn and is very addictive! It’s also a great stress reliever repeatly stabbing at something to then be left with a little piece of creative art. I love these amazing needle felted animals I found at http://www.creturfetur.com/ it show what can be done with some wool and a few felting needles. For started felting...
4 tags
Natural Wool and Needle Felting
I am very excited about a new products which is inspired by the beautiful work of victor dubrovsky
A mix of natutral wools to make felted animal with.
2 tags
How to make a felted bear...
While surfing all things felted I found an american site, danielles place.com, which has several ‘how to’ tutorials for both needle felting and wet felting which I thought I would share. I will also pop the link in my new tutorials blog. It includes how to make a needle felted bear, duck, giraffe. Wet felted purse, vessel and some projects which have a mix and needle and wet felting....
3 tags
Felted Friends
As you will find with my needle felting kits they come with instructions for 3 felting projects. However there is wool for plenty more! Here are a couple pictures of felted friends which have been sent to me.
The various felted friends are by Jo Hughs and the little cat is made by Brian Teho click here so see him on etsy.
I would love to see more customer makes so please do send more links...
3 tags
Felted Broach
Hello and welcome to my blog, I will keep you up to date with new products and infomation, fortnightly. I will also share examples of things you can make with the fibre and supplies I sell so please pop by or follow me for your up dates. I was recently asked about making felt broaches and have found this beautiful example by Lisa Jordon See here for more of her work on flicker. To get started...
