felting anyone.....

A friend sent me this website

http://www.spierhead.com/feltbyroz/

Enjoy

Els

This library fan is loves the Library Coat.

--
Jan in MN

"Els van Dam" wrote in message
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A friend sent me this website

http://www.spierhead.com/feltbyroz/

Enjoy

Els

Els van Dam wrote:
A friend sent me this website

http://www.spierhead.com/feltbyroz/

Oh, wow!

Higs,
Katherine

"Els van Dam" wrote in message
...
A friend sent me this website

http://www.spierhead.com/feltbyroz/

Enjoy

Els

She certainly does detailed work! Wow.

Shelagh

In article , "Shillelagh"
wrote:

"Els van Dam" wrote in message
...
A friend sent me this website

http://www.spierhead.com/feltbyroz/

Enjoy

Els

She certainly does detailed work! Wow.

Shelagh

Shelagh, my daughter arrived today from Toronto. When I showed her a
project I am working on at the moment, felted poodle hair, she told me
that right now felted articles are in Mam. I have to smile, having done
it for year and years, but heads go up when it is picked up by the fashion
industry.

Well off to do some more embroidery on my felted piece. I am using the
lovely photographs in the last National Geigraphic for inspiration. The
blue and green Octopus one.

Els

Els, was the felting actually done from just poodle hair? Will the finished
product be wearable or displayable?

I will have to look for this National Geographic. I've been hearing on the
radio that Dan Buettner (sp?), who is a Minnesota adventurer, has a featured
article in the most recent NG.

--
Jan in MN

"Els van Dam" wrote in message
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In article , "Shillelagh"
wrote:

Shelagh, my daughter arrived today from Toronto. When I showed her a
project I am working on at the moment, felted poodle hair, she told me
that right now felted articles are in Mam. I have to smile, having done
it for year and years, but heads go up when it is picked up by the fashion
industry.

Well off to do some more embroidery on my felted piece. I am using the
lovely photographs in the last National Geigraphic for inspiration. The
blue and green Octopus one.

Els

In article ,
"The Jonathan Lady" wrote:

Els, was the felting actually done from just poodle hair? Will the finished
product be wearable or displayable?

I will have to look for this National Geographic. I've been hearing on the
radio that Dan Buettner (sp?), who is a Minnesota adventurer, has a featured
article in the most recent NG.

Hello Jan,

Indeed I did use pure or only Noah's dog hair for the felting. I had
tried Otto's sander last fall to see if indeed I could make it work. He
let me do this, but just barely....LOL So I bought my own little sander
for $9.00 and used it on getting the piece better felted. It did work
very well. The piece became a lot smaller. Because it still smelled very
much like a smelly dog. I put it in a big dye pot of sudsy water and
boiled it for a while, that helped the felting as well as got rid of the
smell. I than thought, while I had the pot going of putting in some dye
and dyed the whole thing a lovely ocean green. That same day when I did
my grocery shopping a picked up the new National Geographic and saw this
fantastic picture of an Octopus. Now that the piece is nearly dry, I will
get my embroidery threads and beads out and will shape it in a bowl or
basket shape stitching it with fancy stitches and adding the beads. A fun
piece that sort of has a life of it's own. Felting lends itself very well
for this kind of adventure. I have made another basker from felted
strips, that I wove together with at the bottom one of the circles I teach
kids to make with the use of a margarine lid, some sudsy soap in an
recycled spray bottle, a bit of fleece left over from a spinning project,
with the use of a large storage container lid and a car matt. You fluff
the fleece into a large cloud. Shape it into the margarine lid. Spray it
with the soapy water. Turn the lid upside down and tuck in the bits of
fleece sticking out. Put your dry hand firmly on top of the margarine lid
and while pusing hard, make circular movement to the count of 50. Turn
your fleece ciircle over and do the same with the other side. Rince and
dry and you have the start of a little basket or little pouch or bag.
Naturally you can add a nice kumihimo braid to it, or some beads or dry
felting. It is a great start to more felting adventures.

You are correct JanDan Buettner has an article on New Wrinkles of Aging,
in the latest N G

Els