These artful flowers have such life and feeling! It is wonderful how much support our community LIVING FELT FRIENDS provides for each other!
“I want to sincerely thank you ladies for your support and encouragement and for bearing all my posts. I am ready for my market this friday. Wish me luck!!!!
PS: this was so challenging and I am so happy with the result. I hope you like it too.”
– Luna Mora, Dubai
Ruth posted this wonderful hat adorned with the flowers she felted during our live felt-a-long last Wednesday. Aren’t they fabulous?!
– Ruth Dykstra, Illinois
Last Wednesday we had a lot of fun wet felting flowers during our fb LIVE broadcast! Already a few of our friends are sharing the flowers they felted along with us!
Even more are showing up as people watch the replay. You can too, right here on youtube.
Felting Simple Cards & Pictures with MC-1 Batting
Catch it live on Living Felt Friends
This little felted runner would brighten up any room!
“Spring is in the air here in PA (still snow on the ground from the Nor’easter though). I made this table runner with the beautiful Merino Top… from Living Felt.”
– Judi Francis, Pennsylvania
Felting With a Point
Ann got our needle felting realistic pets tutorial, some wool, and felt…and look what she is up to! We love how creative and talented our friends are!
“This is my first needle felting project. I am going to make it into a little purse.”
– Ann Dworzynski Frischkorn, Oregon
These Easter Eggs are truly mini works of art! Look at the gorgeous shading…like little paintings.
“Just completed my three little Easter eggs and I just love the way Living Felt batts felt so easily!”
– Melissa Brown-Dallke, Kansas
This wonderful photo album is an heirloom piece celebrating many generations. See below for more detail on the making of this piece.
“Tried something new as a gift for my daughter’s wedding. Felted old stuff from Moms, Grandmas and Great-Grandmas for a photo album.
I took this picture so Amelia can identify the different things and, who’s they were, in the cover.
Lay out of pieces over three thin layers of roving. I added bits of wool between them… just like Marie has taught in her Nuno felting video.”
This is how it looked once wet felted
Anna top stitched and included the initial of each person from whom the piece came from in the design, and added embellishments from the jewelry and notions.
– Anna Repke, Illinois
Join us for a fun, interactive gathering of friends!
Last week we celebrated our 14th B-Day LIVE with friends, dyeing fibers!
Catch the Broadcast Live or watch it later
in our fb group: LIVING FELT FRIENDS
Scenes from our last broadcast:
Living Felt turned 14 on March 14th this year! Many thanks to our friends for felting with us and keeping our community warm, friendly and growing!
Marie discussed “why dye” and shared a few things from her own stash that she has hand dyed. These locks were dyed with Jacquard acid dye in a kettle, the color is Lilac.
We looked at basic set up and safety of your work space, person and tools. We discussed heating methods such as solar dyeing, a stove top pot, electric kettle and microwave. We forgot to mention the importance of a thermometer…get one in the food gadgets aisle of your local grocery. We also discussed a few ways to apply dye, and how to prepare your fabric or fiber.
We applied dye to silk fabrics for microwaving with squeeze bottles and pipettes. Anne used natural food coloring which will produce a mild color and may not be very color fast, but fun and safe for kiddos.
Marie used Jacquard Acid dyes in Sapphire, Navy and Black on Margilan Silk yardage. The “acid” is just food grade white vinegar.
Next we “sprinkle dyed” locks with the acid dyes. You can do this for low immersion dyeing as we do in our kettle, or for the microwave, or even solar dyeing.
This is the silk we dyed during the broadcast. Notice how the colors go from Sapphire to Navy to Black…it was so easy!
Marie decided to wear it and keep it for her stash.
See the full broadcast in our group LIVING FELT FRIENDS under VIDEOS.
This one is not on Youtube yet, but we will get it up soon….then it will be under WOOLY WEDNESDAY PLAYLIST.
