I have been loving felt ever since putting together 60+ felt projects. Here are a couple of coin purses made from old sweaters, with Sizzix cut wool shapes needle punched for embellishment. These projects are super easy, and what better way to use old sweaters? I have scoured tons of garage sales lately and found
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Inspired by this week’s felt project round-up, I gave needle felt jewelry a go. I played with this briefly to add dots to this felt mushroom a couple of years back, so am a novice to this technique. It is very easy to pick up, and pretty quick for small jewelry projects like this. As
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This was quite a surprising round-up to put together. I guess I thought of felt as a winter craft supply, but not so. Spring and summer projects everywhere are using the stuff. With needle felting, you can easily “paint” in 3D with roving wool, creating anything you can think of. Or grab some salvage wool
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Here is what I have been working on… I can’t stop knitting!This is the first time I have ever knitted two items at once on the same circular needle. I feel like a real knitter now. These are a simple k2 p2 ribbed pattern knit with peruvian wool and lightly machine felted. I will from
It is crunch time folks, and I am knitting myself right into an arthritis diagnosis. I do this every Christmas. Handmade mania with an emphasis on wooly treasures to temper the winter freezes.My nephew wanted fingerless mitts and here is what I came up with (after making 3 oddly shaped gloves I would rather forget).
My friend Megan is a mushroom farmer, so I always keep an eye out for mushroom crafts to whip up for her. These are the felt mushrooms I made from a free pattern I found at kathrynivy.com. They were fun to make, and fulfilled my need for instant gratifications, as they did not take long.
