This needle felted dragon is awfully life-like for being a mythical beast! The work is quite impressive! From the artist, tallydragon, on deviantart.com: He is made out of natural wools from the Iron Horse Farm, a local fiber farm, and the Flying Ewe, a fiber arts website. He has a wire understructure through most of […]
I think it’s fairly clear that the craft world is in the midst of a trend. A trend almost as big as bird silhouettes, almost as big as the skull and crossbones, almost as big as the octopus. It’s the mustache, and it seems to be, ahem, growing on everyone. From ‘Nifer’s amazing pieces of […]
Ancient wisdom advises not to judge a book by its cover, but in the case of Felties by Nelly Pailloux, the sheer adorableness you see on the cover is very much indicative of what’s inside. Squares of felt always invoke images of grade school art class for me, and Pailloux has a way of taking […]
Let’s take a trip to way back in the day, October 2006. I had just begun experimenting with tutorials. I was making a Halloween costume for myself, and thought that I would just snap some quick pictures of the process and throw them up on Flickr. It was my first “self-published” project. The costume was […]
Moxie recently posted some of her new work for the Plush You show in October. Her art is created with needle felting, and her technique is unparalleled. This plug is a boutonniere, part of her series on the subject. It’s a great take on the traditional red rose! Her Apoca-Galapagos series of creatures having evolved […]
It’s Rachel’s birthday! Happy Happy Joy Joy! In that spirit, here’s are three stunning garlands that if I would love to use to decorate her house!
It’s a simple Ashford Flick Card. I have had my eye on a pair of $60 hand carders for a while, but this flick card was less than $20, so I went for it. The card is basically a brush with thin, sharp, bent teeth. I found the tool at my local feed store, not the craft store.
