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thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:47:21 -0500

My daughter first piece of felted art, she is nearly 2!

thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:43:23 -0500

My daughter first piece of felted art, she is nearly 2!

10 simple felting tutorials for kids and adults

thestitchedbutterfly — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:37:37 -0400

10 simple felting tutorials from salihan crafts please click here

Felted Baubles Kit

thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:54:02 -0400

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.

A Guide to Felting Needles

thestitchedbutterfly — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:52:26 -0400

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

How to make a felted button

thestitchedbutterfly — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:54:04 -0400

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

How to make a felted cat cave! (with spikes!)

thestitchedbutterfly — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:46:58 -0400

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

Felted mushrooms

thestitchedbutterfly — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:37:55 -0400

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

Simple Spinning

thestitchedbutterfly — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:09:38 -0400

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

Kids Easy Finger Pupets

thestitchedbutterfly — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:04:52 -0400

Below Is an easy wet felted make for kids of all ages. From blog Whip up by guest blogger mossy. Finger Puppets

How to make friends...

thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:28:53 -0400

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!

Wet felted flowers

thestitchedbutterfly — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:13:18 -0400

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 these crafts in your work.

How to make a needle holder for your felting needles

thestitchedbutterfly — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:34:12 -0400

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 similar sponge

You will also need scissors, a cup of warm water, soap, a small towel and a piece of see through or thin fabric such as voile/cotton/netting (a piece large enough to cover the whole jar).

1. Cut a round piece from the loose woven fabric, big enough to cover the top of the jar and be tied on with the string.

2. Cover a flat surface with the towel, place the jar on its side and cover with small pieces of the wool roving including up to the top (or neck). Cover with the voile (sheer fabric) and wet down with some warm water. Turn the jar slightly and cover the next side with wool making sure it overlaps with the wool now on the jar. Cover with the voile and wet down- make sure all the wool is wet. Turn the jar and repeat until the jar has been covered with wool

3. Wrap the jar in the voile and hold in your hand and then rub a bar of soap over the voile and jar (or use washing up liquid) then rub up and down all sides of the jar with your free hand for about 30 seconds.

4. repeat step 2 and 3

5. Turn jar on to the open end and cover the bottom with wool, this should over lap the sides which already have wool on them. Cover the bottom with the voile, soap the end, and rub for 30 seconds.

6. repeat step 5

7. repeat step 2, 3 and 5 using up all the wool you have left

8. The jar should be covered with the wet semi felted wool. Wrap in the voile, rub on more soap (if needed) and rub all the sides and bottom for about 1 or 2 minutes.

9. Remove the voile and continue to rub the sides and end with your hands until the wool is firm and stays in place.

10. Rinse under a cold tap to remove the soap and pat the excess water off onto the towel. Leave to dry over night

11. Stuff the sponge in to the jar.

12. Cover the top of the jar with the fabric, tie your string in a loop, place the loop over the fabric and around the neck of the jar, tighten, loop around neck again and knot off. Cut off any excess.

13. Push you needles through fabric and into the sponge below. Done!

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Very simple little felted birds

thestitchedbutterfly — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:47:18 -0400

Very simple little felted birds

Flowers made with the Clover Hani Ami Weaving Loom

thestitchedbutterfly — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:48:00 -0400

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.

Amazing Felted Animals

thestitchedbutterfly — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:52:37 -0400

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 kits, merino wool and more click here

Natural Wool and Needle Felting

thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:40:38 -0400

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.

How to make a felted bear...

thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:52:32 -0400

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. click here for your felted projects. For wool for your projects we now sell 150g in any 6 colours of your choice .

Felted Friends

thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:38:00 -0400

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 to your felted creations. For wool and other felting supplies click here

Felted Broach

thestitchedbutterfly — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:19:00 -0400

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 with needle felting this is an ideal kit