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Feltmaking Fabulous Wearables, Jewelry & Home Accents (Weekend Crafter) Chad Alice Hagen 80 pages, Paper $14.95
It’s amazing that such simple materials—wool, soap, hot water—can result in fabric as infinitely varied in form and color as felt. The key is playful experimentation and this creative guide, which reveals exactly which wools to use, the effects of using hard versus soft water, and how to agitate the wool. Twenty colorful projects range from an inviting rug to a rolled Spiral Bracelet to slippers.
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Felting by
Hand 90 pages, Paper $14.95
The author says this book is written with the American craftsperson in mind. She has researched the felting qualities of sheep breeds available in the U.S. and lists sources of fleece and carded wool specifically suited for felting. How to choose domestic wools for specific felting projects is clearly explained. There are ample photographs and illustrations to show the beginner through the steps of making felt wearables. There is a chapter for kids’ projects. Full-size fold-out patterns for most projects are contained in the book.
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How We Felt Designs and Techniques from Contemporary Felt Artists Carol Huber Cypher 144
pages, Paper Felt artist Carol Huber Cypher takes readers behind the scenes in search of the techniques and inspirations that define the best contemporary feltmakers. In this beautifully photographed book, images of signature works by admired fiber artists are complemented by in-depth information on creating their unique effects.
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112 pages, Paper $9.95 Internationally-known felt artist Chad Hagen shows just how simple, good-looking, and varied feltmaking can be, as she guides you through the basics of making more than a dozen spectacular hand-sculpted hats. Here are 15 patterns with endless variations, all in classic shapes, and transformed into unique fashion statements with fanciful touches and exquisite embellishments. Berets have 'wings,' snoods come with long tails just right for scrunching up, and caps feature soft felt spikes or long "dreadlocks" to tie in knots. Even the most traditional designs, such as pillboxes and brimmed hats, sport whimsical tiny safety pins or beads and buttons. For those who prefer not to start from scratch, there's even advice on jazzing up store-bought hats.
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pages, Hardcover with Jacket Felting is hotter than ever, and scarves are fabulous first projects for crafters to try. The simple process yields infinitely varied results, with rich colors, forms, and visual appeal. Created by two internationally-known designers, these 20 spectacular boas, wraps, shawls, and stoles are beautiful, wearable art. Ranging from understated elegance to simply outrageous, they come with easy-to-follow instructions, helpful how-to photos, and templates, when needed. An introduction covers all the basics, and the projects build a repertoire of skills as readers progress through the book. The standouts include a scarf with lacy designs snipped onto the felt surface; a wrap inspired by the delicate hues in Monet’s water lily paintings; and a pretty dip-dye novelty yarn party scarf.
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Felt Frenzy26 Projects for All Forms of FeltingHeather Brack and Shannon Okey128 pages, Paper $21.95 This is not your ordinary felting book! Felt Frenzy explores all the major techniques of felt making, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needlefelting, and “recycled felting”—turning salvaged wool sweaters into useful felt pieces—plus ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results. Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, Felt Frenzy is packed with 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations so readers can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice.
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Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads 25
Artful Designs 128 pages, Paper $21.95 Felt-bead jewelry is fashionable! It’s showing up on runways, specialty stores, and galleries around the globe. Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads offers a contemporary and artistic approach to this popular craft—and then takes it a step beyond through beaded embellishment. No other hand felting book is as comprehensive, as Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads includes both needle-felting and wet-feltmaking techniques covering flat, flat with a resist, 3-dimensional, use of armatures and mediums, color, inclusions, shape, and texture. These techniques are taught step-by-step in a friendly and accessible manner through the creation of beautiful objects of personal adornment. You’ll learn how to make the felted equivalent of lampworked beads, turquoise focal beads, mokume gane look-alikes, and so much more.
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Simply Felt 20 Easy and Elegant Designs in Wool Margaret Docherty and Jayne Emerson 128 pages, Paper $24.95 Now you can bring the highly sought-after handcrafted style of felt into your wardrobe and home décor - this book promises to make it simple, and oh, so beautiful. Authors Margaret Docherty, an expert felt maker and teacher, and Jayne Emerson, a textile designer, have teamed up to present the fundamentals of felting: choosing fibers and colors, making flat felt and boiling felt, and stitching felt. They also cover the more advanced process of inlaying other fibers to vary felt design and texture. The felting techniques are demonstrated with 20 beautiful projects in a range of contemporary colors; projects include a cozy cloche hat, a charming child's jacket, warm slippers, delicate scarves, square and inlayed throw pillows, and an exquisite, long-lasting rug. Each project is presented with simple, step-by-step instructions and illustrations, and offers alternative samples and suggestions that help you to create your own designs.
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Needle Felting Art Techniques and Projects Anne Einset Vickrey 60 pages, Paper $17.95 This book provides an introduction to needle felting, an exciting new method of creating fiber art. All you need is some wool fiber, a foam work surface, and a felting needle to create flat or three-dimensional works of art. The book is designed to guide the beginner through simple projects, but it also has useful information for the experienced needle felter. The five specific projects increase with difficulty as you work through the book.
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Timbre Ridge Farm Marlene & Carl Gruetter 1116 Township Road 217 Scottown, Ohio 45678 740-256-1866
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