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NEW!!
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 #
NEW!!
ANIMAL MASCOTS MADE OF WOOL, Ondori. Japanese text. Lots of bears, lady bugs. bunnies, sea otters, and more charming friends and their toys using the felting needle and step by step graphic instructions and patterns.
ISBN: 9784277563109. 72 pages. 8" x 8" softcover. $20.00
#169332
NEW!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.
$25.00 #139506
NEW!!
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
NEW!
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
NEW! 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 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
NEW!
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
NEW!!
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
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NEEDLE FELTED ACCESSORIES: 18 Projects for Neelde Felted Jewelry and Purses, Amy Barickman.
ISBN: 0975491822 8½" X 11" Softcover $19.99 #139523
NEW!!
NEEDLE FELTED FASHIONS: 10 Unique Projects to Create and Customize Wearables, Amy Barickman.
ISBN: 0975491806 8½'' X 11'' Softcover $19.99 #139522
Needle Felting, Hamanaka.
Needle felting, combined with wet felting, covering simple projects including
small animals, cup holder, journal covers, and more, with clear step-by-step
photo instructions. Japanese text. 48 pages. Paperback. $12.00
#169265
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. Covered
spiral bound. $17.95 #479001
NEW!NEEDLE FELTING BY HAND OR MACHINE, Linda Griepentrog.
From sewing machine manufacturers, machine felting is explored through exciting
projects for self and home. 128 pages, softcover. $22.95 #139513
NEW!!
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
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
NEW!!
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
NEW!!
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
Suzanne
Higg's Needle Felted Hat Directions...$5.00 for pattern. #439001
Suzanne
Higg's Needle Felted Purse and Bag Directions...$5.00 for pattern. #439012
Needle Felting, Sheep: A Flock of Sheep with the Felting Needle, by Suzanne
Pufpaff...$5.00 for
pattern (comes with
three felting needles) #399001
Needle Felting, Bears: Little Teddy Bears with the Felting Needle, by Suzanne
Pufpaff...$5.00 for
pattern (comes with
three felting needles) #399003
Needle Felting, Llamas: Simple But Elegant Llamas with the Felting Needle, by
Suzanne Pufpaff...$5.00
for pattern (comes with
three felting needles) #399002
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 needle felting is.
The full color booklets -- with over 70 color photographs (not
drawings) will
guide you step by step...very clear, and very easy to read.
Beary
Best Friend...$10.00
Supplies you will need to complete a bear:
Wool, approx.
1/2 oz - 1 ozfor body
Wool, small amount of color accent for paws
Black thread
Black beads or wool for eyes
Waxed floss for joints; may
also use dental floss or button thread
3 Felting needles: 36,38,40 gauge
Foam worksurface and 5" X 5"
Bamboo Skewer
Darning or Doll needle
Sewing Needle
Scissors
Just
Ducky...$10.00
Supplies you will need to complete a duck:
Wool, core wool for duck head, body & wings,
1/4 oz.
Wool, fluffy for covering body
Wool, orange for legs, feet, bill & wing color
Wool, small amount of black for eyes & shading
in mouth
Mielke's
Fiber Arts, LLC
NEW!!
NEEDLE FELTED ACCESSORIES: 18 Projects for Neelde Felted Jewelry and Purses, Amy Barickman. 
NEW!!
NEEDLE FELTED FASHIONS: 10 Unique Projects to Create and Customize Wearables, Amy Barickman.
NEW!!
NEEDLE FELTING: Simple Techniques, Beautiful Projects, Linda Lenich & Jennifer Kooy Zoeterman.
New
Felt:
NEW!!
NOT YOUR MAMA’S FELTING: The Cool and Creative Way to Get it Together, Amy Swenson. 
