NEW! Creative Felting

Color, color, color, that is what Creative Felting is all all about. Discover your own creativity with the ancient art of felting. Creative felting will show you step by step instructions to teach you how to felt the easy way. Experiment with different fibers and techniques and with blending and contrasting a whole range of colors. Watch your fiber come to life with Creative Felting and watch vibrant color combination and textures appear in your projects. Creative Felting is an inspiring book for all of us who are color challenged (and don't know it) Filled with great color combos to copy or explore.

How We Felt, Designs and Techniques

Beginning with an iconic project, the technique of felting around a ball that artist Beth Beede made famous and taught throughout the world, the book continues with more than 20 artists and highlights diverse forms, including hats, capes, a dress, bags, slippers, jewelry, rugs, pillows, a curtain, an ottoman, and other decorative pieces, plus vessels, hanging installations, a felted chess set, and other art forms. How We Felt showcases other artists and provides further ideas to spark the fiber artist’s imagination. Readers are encouraged to use the examples and instructions to inform their own creative endeavors. In addition to practical information on creating the pieces shown, each project is accompanied by biographical information and insights into the artist’s own inspiration.

Felt Frenzy, 26 Projects for All Forms of Felting

This is not your ordinary felting book! Felt Frenzy explores all the major techniques of felt making, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needle felting, and “recycled felting”—turning salvaged wool sweaters into useful felt pieces—plus ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results. Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, Felt Frenzy is packed with 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations so readers can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice. You’ll find instructions for the ever-popular felted bag, but it doesn’t stop there—learn to make felted flowers, hats, jackets, scarves, wool sneakers, even a nuno felted skirt. As an added bonus, you’ll find “design ideas” scattered throughout the book to give your projects an extra creative boost; these suggestions help integrate felt into other fiber arts, from embroidery to shibori.

Simply Felt, 20 easy and elegant designs in wool, Margaret Docherty, Jayne Emerson

Starting with an old thrift shop sweater or a bag of raw wool you can create handsome, durable fabrics for striking wearable or home decor. All it takes is soap, water and a bit of scrubbing and rubbing. Simply Felt will teach you how to make felt from old knitted fabrics, make felt from raw wool and other fibers, how to felt by hand  or washing machine, how to created flat fabrics or sculptural shapes. Find out how to enhance your felt by inlaying fibers for color and texture effects, easy step-by step instructions. 128 pages.

The Art of Feltmaking, Anne Einset Vickrey

Basic Techniques for making Jewelry, Miniatures, Dolls, Buttons, Wearables, Puppets, Masks and Fine Art Pieces. The Art of Feltmaking demonstrates how to use the natural properties of wool to make delightful, one-of-a-kind felted items. The techniques are so simple that even kids can join the fun. To get started all you need are wool, hot, soapy water and your hands. 144 pages.

Feltmaking by Hand, Anne Einset Vickrey

Subtitled The Basic Process this video is perfect for all who would like to learn how to felt with soap and water. Feltmaking is a simple technique requiring very little equipment, which produces warm woolen wearables like hats, slippers and mittens that are fun to wear, and they make great gifts. You will learn how to choose the best wool, how to prepare fleece for felting, & how to make your own patterns. You will be given complete instructions for making a felt hat & ideas for lots of other projects. A great craft for all ages. 51 minutes. "This is an excellent video...well organized... clear & concise" HANDWOVEN MAGAZINE

Videos and DVDs are non returnable once shrink warp or seal in broken.

Needle Felting by Anne Einset Vickrey
  

Even if you have never heard of needle felting before, this book is for you. Let Anne Einset Vickrey show you how to create whimsical dolls and sculptures, and also lovely works of art. Imagination is the only limit to what you can create. Needle Felting gives useful information as to the tools, and how to choose an appropriate felting needle. The two methods for creating felt are also explained. The five projects begin with the very simple and progress into three dimensional objects. Spiral bound.

NEW! Ashford Needle Felting Starter Kit

Here is everything you need to get started! The Ashford Needle Felting Starter Kit comes complete with the Ashford Book of Needle Felting, which will give you confidence to create your own unique and beautiful felted works of art. The book covers materials, equipment, techniques and provides all the pattern templates.
The Ashford Needle Felting Starter Kit includes 4 types of needle, 15 colors of fiber, foam block, washaway fabric and The Ashford Book of Needle Felting by Barbara Allen.

NEW! Colonial Felt-by-Number Kits

Create a felted work of art with our  Colonial Felt-By-Number Kits. Transfer creative iron-on designs to garments, accessories or home décor items of your choice. Then, all you do is “paint” the picture using our colorful wool fibers and felting needles. Kits comes complete with iron-on transfers, guide sheets, a foam block, 2 felting needles and wool. $19.95 each

NEW! Ashford Needle Felting Kits

Cute, cute cute! These Ashford Needle Felting kits are easy and fast!  Choose from a friendly and cute Beagle or set of three flirty butterflies. Both kits come with everything you need! The Butterflies kit comes complete with fiber, felting needle, felting pad and instructions. The Beagle kit comes with fiber, wire and instruction.