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ANIMAL FELT, Birgitte Krag Hansen.
Felted animals are the subject of this new book by Birgitte, who shows a large
number of models, all made using the felting needle. The first animals are
so simple that they can be made by beginners and throughout the book the various
techniques are extended so that the book is also of value to experienced
felters. The step-by-step photographs of the book show how the wool is
made into the most charming animals, such as frogs, owls, dogs, cats, kangaroos,
bears, monkeys, seals and relief and wall hangings of eagles, tigers and polar
bears, among others. ISBN: 8764102718. 117 pages. 9 3/4'' X 9
7/8'' hardcover. $69.00 #139625
THE
ASHFORD BOOK OF NEEDLE FELTING, Barbara Allen.
Explore the unlimited potential of needle felting. Create your own adorable figures, beautiful flowers and scenes, striking jewellery and embellishments all in flat or sculpted felt. With just a little wool, a felting needle and this book you can create unique, beautiful felted works of art. If you haven’t tried needle felting, here is a book to inspire you. Barbara, a popular teacher and author, explains and illustrates all the techniques, materials and equipment needed. For each project there are step-by-step instructions and full colour photographs of each process. There are projects for beginners and skilled felters and each project builds on the knowledge gained. By the book’s end you will be experienced and confident to create your own masterpiece or try one of Barbara’s beautiful gallery pieces. The book provides all the pattern templates for the projects. 112 pages, full color.
$24.50
BEGINNERS GUIDE TO NEEDLE FELTING,
Susanna Willis.
Susanna Wallis demonstrates how to create wonderful pictures and three dimensional objects using wool and simple felting techniques. Learn how to make charming cards, pictures, jewelry and figures from wool. Simply, clearly explained techniques, step-by-step photos and six inspirational projects. ISBN: 1844482510.
64 pages. Softcover, 8'' X 10." $17.95
The
Big Book of Needle Felting,
Kay Kaduce, Judy Jacobs, and Rona Horn.
Kay Kaduce, Judy Jacobs, and Rona Horn show you how to needle felt with style and abandon in The Big Book of Needle Felting. Artists extraordinaire, they share their inspiring ideas for creating one of a kind projects for amazing clothing, purses, jewelry, flowers and home decor. Needling has never been more fun! The talented designers are also ingenious recyclers, using repurposed wool for many of the projects. Old sweaters, blankets, and coats garnered from closets or purchased inexpensively at thrift stores are all transformed into unique jackets and colorful accessories that are never short on compliments.
See how easy it is to master the techniques for making felted fabric, embellishing with yarn and beads, and felting shapes, balls, roses and more. Plus enjoy the extensive chapters featuring techniques and projects for creating needle felted jewelry for yourself or friends and family. The book features both dry and wet felting techniques with over 300 how to photos and instructions for more than 50 beautiful, soft, colorful, and innovative projects to make mastering this popular new craft fun for all.
ISBN: 1601406584. 8.5'' X 11'' softcover, 136 pages.
$24.95 #169399
COMPLETE FELTMAKING, Gillian Harris
The complete guide covering 2 and 3-dimensionmal felting, knitted felting, and
needle felting through a series of delightful projects. 160 pages, softcover.
$24.95 #139506
DESIGNER NEEDLE FELTING: Contemporary Styles, Easy Techniques, Terry Taylor & Candi Cooper.
Fiber artists, crafters, quilters, and sewers have all embraced the art of needle felting—the popular technique of using a barbed needle and wool roving to create sheets of felt or embellish fabric. This colorfully illustrated guide shows just how easy it can be to get eye-catching results on everything from wonderful wearables to whimsical home accessories. A thorough basics section explores the variety of fibers, yarns, and threads employed in needle felting, and the foundation materials that work best. Find out how to do both single and multi-needle felting, as well as felting with a machine and shaping three-dimensional forms. Thirty unique projects include a Lollipop Bag, Glamour Sweaters, Graphite Pillows, and an adorable “Pigs Can Fly” ornament.
ISBN: 157990999X. 8 3/4" x 10 1/4" hardcover, 128 pages.
$24.95 #139614
FAST,
FUN & EASY NEEDLE FELTING: 8 Techniques & Projects — Creative Results
in Minutes, Lynne Farris.
This volume includes complete illustrated instructions for eight distinct
needle-felting techniques - from embellishments on woollen fabric, creating
appliqué and stained-glass effects, to the use of buttons and beads in
dimensional projects. ISBN: 1571203974. 48 pages. 8 1/2'' X
11'' softcover. $14.95
#169313
NEW!!
FELT EASY AND FUN, Brigitte Krag Hansen.
With a little wool, a felting needle and your imagination, needlefelting little animals is fun and easy.
All the animals in the book are based on the same basic two-dimensional shapes. The individual
parts - body and head, legs and arms, ear and tails - are needled separately and
assembled at the end. This method makes the animals easy to make, and there are many ways to vary them.
The complete, step-by-step pictures and explanations make the book easy to use for everyone who likes to needlefelt, including children.
Published by Forlaget Klematis. ISBN: 8764104532 7 3/4'' X 10 3/4''
hardcover. 77 pages. $60.00 #139404
FELTED
LANDSCAPES: A How To Booklet for Creating Needle Felted Landscapes, Rita
Blocksom. Discussion of how to plan and work a needle felted landscape. 19
pages. Self Published. 8.5" x 5.5" spiral-bound.
$10.00 #659127
FELT FRENZY: 26 Projects for All Forms of Felting, Shannon Okey.
Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, this project collection explores all the major felt making techniques, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needle felting, and "recycled felting," as well as ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results. With 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations, crafters can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice. Instructions are given for felted bags, flowers, hats, jackets, scarves, wool sneakers, and even a nuno felted skirt; while fiber types, tools for getting started, and the four major techniques needed to create these projects are also all covered. Armed with plenty of information and the authors' can-do spirit, crafters will find it easy to add felting to their repertoires.
128 pages. 8 1/2" x 9" Softcover. ISBN: 1596680091 $21.95
#139507
FELTING,
Ondori.
A variety of small projects with step-by-step illustrations for wet felt
techniques. Japanese text. 56 pages, softcover. $7.50 #169071
NEW!!
FELTIQUE:
Techniques and Projects for Wet Felting, Needle Felting, Fulling, and Working with Commercial Felt,
Nikola Davidson & Brookelynn Morris. Feltique shows you how to master this versatile material step by step. In one simple guide, you’ll have everything at your fingertips to create charming projects using a variety of felting techniques: wet felting, needle felting, fulling, and sewing commercial felt. More than 45 unique projects offer quick and simple designs for beginners as well as fun and challenging endeavors for experts, and the techniques are perfect for creating everything from warm and fuzzy clothing to useful household items.
160 pages. Published by Random House. 8 1/2'' X 10 7/8''
hardcover. ISBN-10: 0307406997. $27.50 #139876
FLEECE DOG: A little bit of magic created with
raw wool and special needle, Nobuko Nagakubo.
Needle felt palm-sized dogs. This 80 page book has step-by-step photos showing
how to make 20 popular breeds: Labrador Retriever,
Miniature Dachshund, Shiba Inu, French Bulldog, Wirehaired Fox Terrier, Siberian Husky, Chihuahua, Miniature Schnauzer, Pomeranian,
Papillon, Dalmatian, Catalan, Sheepdog, Bernese Mountain Dog, Scottish Terrier, West Highland White Terrier,
Afghan Hound, Toy Poodle. ISBN: 184533289X. 7 1/2'' X 8 1/2'' paperback.
$22.95 #169312
FUN FELT
Small, fun projects from penguins to bags with instructions for needle and wet
felting. Step-by-step photos and illustrations. Japanese text. Great
inspiration! 82 pages, 8.25" x 9" paperback. $26.00
#169324
FUZZY FELTED FRIENDS, Saori Yamazaki. (Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts)
Say Hello to your new best pals. These felted friends hail from Japan—homeland of all things cut. Inside you’ll find over 25 translated patterns that combine the appeal of authentic Japanese content with the ease of English instruction.
Cheerful photographs, step-by-step directions, and helpful how-to illustrations make it easy to whip up both water and needle felted projects. No knitting involved; simply treat raw wool fibers and detergent to create these little creatures. Cute and cuddly—they’re also useful. An elephant cozy warms a tea kettle; a whimsical bird mobile adorns a nursery; wee mouse pincushions hold your needles while piglets, giraffes, zebras or sheep carry all your gear in hand totes and pouches.
ISBN: 0811860663. Softcover. $14.95 #169339
HANDMADE FELT BOOK, Ondori.
Step-by-step photo felting techniques for bags, hats and more. Artistic,
elegant new designs, combining both wet and dry felting techniques. Japanese
text. 88 pages, paperback. $26.00 #169271
LEARN TO NEEDLE FELT;
24 Easy-to-Felt Designs! No Washing Needed! Carol Wilson Mansfield.
ISBN: 1590122097. 8 1/2'' X 10 3/4'' softcover. 16
pages. $10.95 #139591
LITTLE FELTED ANIMALS:
Create 16 Irresistible Creatures with Simple Needle-Felting Techniques, Marie-Noelle Horvath.
Create your own menagerie of adorable miniature animals with this completely irresistible collection of projects. Using simple needle felting techniques, basic tools and some wool roving. Marie-Noelle Horvath shows how to transform fluffs of wool fiber into crazy-cute critters that will melt the heart. Sixteen projects span old favorites such as dogs, cats, mice and birds to the more elusive fox, baby seal, brown bear, and penguin. You won’t be able to urge to bring every one to life.
ISBN: 0823015041. 64 pages, softcover. $12.95 #139636
MAKING FACES: Using Wet and Dry Felting
Methods, Pat Spark.
This exciting new book by a respected teacher and author shows how to combining
the sculptural possibilities of the felting needle with traditional wet felting
for complete control of three-dimensional forms. 63 pages. Black and
white photos and illustrations. Spiral bound softcover. ISBN:
0975369814. $18.00 #619207
MAKING FELTED FRIENDS: 25 Fun Wet- & Needle-Felted Toys & Gifts, Sue Pearl List Price:
Crafters everywhere are discovering the joys of feltmaking. Working with fleece roving is fun, tactile, and easy for all ages and levels of crafters. The 25 irresistible projects in Making Felted Friends show how creative it can be to work with this colorful, malleable medium using wet and needle-felting techniques. From cats, dogs, and penguins to snakes, dinosaurs, and monkeys, all the favorite animal friends are covered. Many start with a simple armature, which is wrapped with fleece roving. Then, with the addition of a bit of soap, water, and elbow grease, most projects can be made in several hours. Felting invites embellishment, and these projects make the most of it with brightly colored spots, stripes, spikes, and beaks that offer the imaginative crafter opportunities for sculpting one-of-a-kind creatures. Playful and cuddly to hold, some of these fuzzy felted friends make perfect toys. Others are designed to add a decorative touch to a tabletop or mantel display. Whether given as gifts or kept for entertainment and inspiration, the comical critters in this original felted menagerie are sure to become friends for life.
127 pages, 8 1/4" x 10 1/4" softcover. ISBN: 1580176852. $17.95
#139594
NEEDLE FELTED ACCESSORIES: 18 Projects for Neelde Felted Jewelry and Purses,
Amy Barickman.
ISBN: 0975491822 8½" X 11" Softcover $19.99 #139523
NEEDLE FELTED FASHIONS: 10 Unique Projects to Create and Customize Wearables, Amy Barickman.
ISBN: 0975491806 8½'' X 11'' Softcover $19.99 #139522
NEEDLE
FELTING:
Art Techniques and Projects, by Anne Einset Vickrey, with Patricia Spark and
Linda Van Alstyne. The book we've been waiting for! Detailed instructions on needle
felting and it's varied techniques. Starts with an explanation of felting
and the tools and materials available, and works through five specific projects,
with ideas and details for many more explained and illustrated. Covers the
principles of flat work, sculpture and mixed wet/dry techniques. Black and
white pictures with illustrations throughout. 60 pages. ISBN:0961905328. 7
1/4" x 8" softcovered
spiral bound. $17.95 #479001
Needle
Felting: Simple Techniques, Beautiful Projects, Linda Lenich & Jennifer Kooy Zoeterman.
Get a complete introduction to the hottest new craze in wool crafting--needle felting. Learn all the basics, and then try your poke-and-punch skills in five fun projects.
ISBN: 1564777685. 32 pages. 8½'' X 11'' softcover $14.95 #139521
NEEDLE
FELTING: 22 Stylish Projects for the Home & Fashion, Amy
Barickman, Indygo Junction. Start with wool - then go wild! Needle felting is easy to learn and fun to do, and the results are stunning. Choose or reuse wool fabric, then add yarns, roving, and novelty fibers. Wet and dry felting, hand and machine techniques give endless choices for
cool clothing, bags, jewelry, pillows, and more. Nearly two dozen projects plus an idea gallery from five top designers mean needle felting is sure to be the next crafting craze.
ISBN: 1571203796. 8 1/2'' X 11'' softcover. 80
pages. $24.95 #139450
NEEDLE FELTING BY HAND OR MACHINE: 15 Projects Using Easy-to-Learn Techniques, Linda
Griepentrog& Pauline Richards.
Machine felting is one of the hottest things in fiber arts, building on the rich history of hand felting. With top sewing manufacturers adding felting accessories to their lines, a practical how-to guide is a great first step to enjoying this exciting craft. In this guide you'll discover the history behind this popular practice, which involves a piercing process with barbed needles to embed the fibers into the base. You will be inspired by the exciting projects and 200+ color photos and illustrations in this book, as you use your hand or machine to create felted items for your home, wardrobe or to give as gifts.
ISBN: 0896894851. 128 pages, softcover. $22.95 #139513
NEW FELT: Using the Felting Needle, Birgitte Krag Hansen.
This book presents new ways of felting both humans and
animal figures, and describes how to build up a face. There are also a number of
variations of relief pictures and theatre puppets. This book is well illustrated
with instructive work procedures and pictures of finished work. It is written
both for beginners and those wishing to develop work further. All the sections
also include simple examples that can be made by children about 10 years and
older. English text. ISBN: 8779058779 107 pages, 9 3/4'' X 9
7/8'' hardcover. $65.00 #169158
NOT YOUR MAMA’S FELTING: The Cool and Creative Way to Get it Together, Amy Swenson. The art of felting, the process of working wool fibers together to form
felt, is the ultimate in craft creativity because not two items turn out exactly
alike. The first book to cover knitted or crocheted felting, needle
felting, and wet felting, Not Your Mama's Felting will have you creating
fashions, accessories and gifts that will have your non-felting friends asking,
"How did you do that?" Fun and funky, this guide includes the
essentials: all about fiber, the tools of the trade, wet felting, needle
felting, fulling and dyeing; pattern and step-by-step instructions for
approximately thirty projects, including an assemble-your-own wallet kit, a
bad-boy hoodie, a loopy boa, a chunky bead necklace, needle vases, and more;
tips to customize each design; basic knitting crocheting instructions so that
even non-needleworkers can make all of the projects. Does the smell of wet
sheep turn you on? Long to escape to your own private yurt? With Not
Your Mama's Felting, you'll be a felt-loving material girl in no time.
ISBN: 0470095180. 207 pages. 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" softcover. $14.99
#139524
PIXIE
FELT: Using the Felting Needle, Birgitte Krag Hansen.
Now in English! This book is about pixie needle
felting and a follow up to the previous book by Brigitte Krag Hansen - New Felt:
using the felting needle. To felt pixies is one of many subjects where the
felting needle is most suitable. The barbs of the needle make it easy to create
simple and more detailed faces and bodies of the wool, and you only need very
few materials to get started. With the felting needle you don't have to use
water and soap at all. This book is well illustrated with step by step pictures
of the process as well as finished pixies. It is written both for beginners and
for more experienced felters. Children from about nine or ten will be able to
use the book on their own or with some adult help. Lots of new ideas for little people and little animals. 72 pages,
hardcover. ISBN: 8764100308 72 pages. 9 3/4'' X 8 1/4'' hardcover.
$49.95 #169129
QUICK AND CLEVER FELTING:
25 Stylish Projects Using Felt Applique, Needle Felting, Laid Felt, and Other Easy Techniques,
Ellen Kharade.
Discover felting the quick and clever way with over 20 fun and fabulous projects. Each project can be completed in a day with a lasting impression in designs easily adaptable to your own style. Essiential easy-to-follow techniques include needle felting, wet felting, fulling and using ready made felt. Colorful designs range from beautiful jewellery, bags and cushions to quirky toys and slippers.
ISBN: 071532716X. $19.99 #139627
SWEET NEEDLE FELTS:
20 Projects to Wear, Give & Hug, Jenn Docherty.
ISBN: 1600610390. $19.99 #169369
Uniquely Felt: Dozens of Techniques from Fulling & Shaping to Nuno and Cobweb,
Christine White.
In Uniquely Felt, Christine White, a professional teacher and feltmaker, gathers
her considerable knowledge of the craft to write the comprehensive guide to all
things felt. She describes the equipment, explores concepts and theories of
felting, and thoroughly covers all felting techniques, including traditional,
needle, three-dimensional seamless, nuno, cobweb, carved, and Beede ball.
And then there are the projects — handsome, indestructible bags; nuno shawls
that marry soft wool fibers and wispy silks; bright picnic blankets and plush
bath mats; lacy curtains made with impossibly sheer cobweb felt. Every project
is striking in its fabulous depth of color and purity of form. There are no
stitches, no seams, and no signs of woven cloth — just a wonderful, flowing
piece of textile art. The process always begins the same way, but the
fibers make the felting journey unique every time. This book is the ultimate
guide to that magical adventure. ISBN: 1580176739. 8 1/4" x
10" softcover. 312 pages. $24.95 #139623
WATERCOLOR
FELT WORKBOOK: A Guide to Making Pictorial Felts Using Wet and Dry Felting
Methods, Pat Sparks.
This workbook is intended to help you learn the technique
developed by Pat Spark, called "Watercolor Felt". Ms. Spark calls her
method by this name because she uses concepts from painting, and applies those
concepts to feltmaking. The result is felts that are visually similar to
watercolors, but which are totally made of dyed fiber. There is no actual
painting involved, unless you consider the placement of each individual colored
fiber as "painting" with the fiber. The process involves the use of
both the traditional, wet felting method and needle felting, also known as the
dry felting method. Following Ms. Spark’s instructions with these two felting
methods, you will be able to create your own pictorial felts. Don’t know how
to draw? Don’t worry; Ms. Spark has included methods for working from
photographs to create your images. The workbook is divided into two sections.
Section One describes basic felting information. Section Two is a series of
samplers that will take you step by step through the various needle felting and
wet felting methods you will need for doing the process. The samplers are
sequential, with each one building upon the techniques of the last so that you
will methodically gain the expertise needed to make the pictorial felts. All
pictures and illustrations are in black and white with 4 pages of colored
pictures showing the samplers you will make with a photograph of the flower or
leaves at the top of the page and the finished felt piece at the bottom of the
page. 56 pages, 8 1/2'' X 11'' spiral bound softcover.
ISBN 0975369849 $29.00 #139452
WOOL PETS:
Making 20 Figures with Wool Roving and a Barbed Needle, Laurie Sharp.
Learn how to sculpt wool roving with a barbed felting needle to make three-dimensional figures and animals. Using only wool, a needle, and a foam pad you can create birds, bugs, giraffes, trolls, penguins, and mermaids. No need to cut or wet the wool: just shape and needle it, adding details as you go. With superb photography and easy-to-follow instructions, Wool Pets explains the techniques and gives you the tools to make your own freeform figures. Make them into mobiles, ornaments, or fashion accessories. Arrange them in shadowboxes or perch them on dressers and windowsills. These adorable pets are always irresistible.
ISBN: 1589233859. 8 3/4" X 10 1/4" hardcover. $19.95
#139633
Needle Felting, Sheep: A Flock of Sheep with the Felting
Needle by Suzanne Pufpaff...$5.00 for
pattern #399001 (comes with
three felting needles)
Needle Felting, Bears: Little Teddy Bears with the Felting
Needle by Suzanne Pufpaff...$5.00 for
pattern #399003
(comes with
three felting needles)
Needle Felting, Llamas: Simple But Elegant Llamas with the Felting
Needle by Suzanne Pufpaff...$5.00
for pattern #399002 (comes with
three felting needles)
Suzanne
Higg's Needle Felted Hat Directions...$5.00 for pattern. #439001
These are do-it-yourself workshops created by felter and wool
sculptor, Marie Spaulding. Created with the complete beginner in mind, but
useful for anyone who wants to learn to work with carded wool and felting
needles. Marie designed these instructions to help people who are not near
workshops or who want to try needle felting
Whether you are into felting, spinning, or other crafts, you'll love how easy
& fun it is to needle felt.
The full color booklets -- with over 70 color photographs (not
drawings) will
guide you step by step...very clear, and very easy to read.
You can make a cute needle felted dog in just one afternoon! Finished dog is 2 3/4" tall from legs to top of back, 3 3/4" tall from legs to top of head, 2 1/2 long from chest to rear.
No prior experience needed!
These are do-it-yourself workshops created by felter and wool
sculptor, Marie Spaulding. Created with the complete beginner in mind, but
useful for anyone who wants to learn to work with carded wool and felting
needles.
The full color booklets -- with over 70 color photographs (not
drawings) will guide you step by step...very clear, and very easy to read.
Over 60 color photographs lead you step-by-step through the process of making
a cute little string-jointed bunny with poseable ears!
No prior experience needed!
These are do-it-yourself workshops created by felter and wool
sculptor, Marie Spaulding. Created with the complete beginner in mind, but
useful for anyone who wants to learn to work with carded wool and felting
needles.
These are do-it-yourself workshops created by felter and wool
sculptor, Marie Spaulding. Created with the complete beginner in mind, but
useful for anyone who wants to learn to work with carded wool and felting
needles. Marie designed these instructions to help people who are not near
workshops or who want to try needle felting without investing a lot of money.
Whether you are into felting, spinning, or other crafts, you'll love how easy
& fun it is to needle felt.
The full color booklets -- with over 70 color photographs (not
drawings) will guide you step by step...very clear, and very easy to read.