HOW TO – Make a Felted Flower Brooch
The Knitted Blog shows us how to use a cookie cutter to make a perfectly-formed needle felted flower brooch. Related: • Felted Brooch Tutorial • Needle Felting Tutorial
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Stephanie Metz’s Exquisite Felt Art
Stephanie Metz makes these incredible felted artworks of skulls, humans, and other animals. Via BoingBoing.
Choosing the Right Yarn for Felting
Knitting Daily has a great article on how to choose the right yarn for your felting projects. From the article: Sheep and other animal fibers are scaly–picture a fish’s scales covering each fiber. When you dunk wool into hot water and swish it around, these scales open up, sort of like lots of little umbrellas […]
Amy Long’s Fiber Art
I had the opportunity last night to visit Amy Long’s MFA thesis show in fibers, and I must say I was very impressed. She uses crochet and hand felted wool to create these unique and very evocative forms. The show will be up until the end of the week in Tempe, AZ. More photos on […]
Felted Plant Cozies
Now that it’s April, I’m itching to fill my home with plants, plants, and more plants. I’m always looking for offbeat planters and these felted plant cozies by Papaver Vert look are definitely giving me ideas. The felted wool paired with the fresh green of the leaves is a wonderfully organic-feeling match. Felted Plant Cozies
Win a Monster Eyeball Pincushion
Felting in Fibrespace will be giving away one of these creepy-cool monster eyeball pincushions in a random drawing on Monday, April 7. Just head over to the blog and leave a comment–and be sure to check out the rest of her colorful creations while you’re there. Monster Eyeball Pincushion
Suvi the Felted Monster
From the CRAFT Flickr pool, user LicoriceTree made this little redheaded cartwheeling monster named Suvi. I love the talons!
