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I just purchased some roving from Matahari Spinnery and many rovings are on sale at great prices.  They also sell spinning equipment and yarns.  Check out this site.  The ordering is a tad different, but it is simple enough.
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Felt It!

August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment

Felt It!
by Maggie Pace
 
You should be forewarned before diving into this book that felting has been known to cause addiction. The 20 quick-to-knit projects presented here are only going to help add to your sudden desire to felt all your knitted items.   The above pictures are a few samples of all the goodies inside this [...]

If you are apprehensive about jumping into felting, you may wish to consider a felting kit.  Maggie Pace started Pick Up Sticks! in 2003 and is still serving us felters needs.  At Pick up Sticks you can purchase some very charming felting kits.  There is also a section titled FELTING 101 A Pick Up Sticks [...]

6.5tsts

August 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

I found Alison’s blog at 6.5tst.  Alison lives in Sidney Australia and is an Architect, but more importantly a mother, wife, crafter and an amazing designer and knitter.   In my humble opinion, Alison is an accomplished photographer.  I spent an hour just looking at her photos on FLICKR.  She has a creative eye that invites one to [...]

Since I have been writing for Craft Gossip I have been experimenting more and more with felting.  This pendent was knit with KNIT PICKS Palette 100% wool yarn in white.   After knitting it, I put a piece of a bamboo skewer vertically and one horizontally and then hand felted it in the sink to control [...]

NEEDLE FELTED WINGS

August 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

I located this tutorial on needle felted wings on Alpaca.com .  Go and take a look around this site, as they have many interesting supplies and ideas.
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My friend Carol Caldwell and I created this scarf together.  She machine knit it and I did all of the relief work and the felting.   It was fun and I think we ended up with a pretty cool scarf.  To see larger pictures go to Carol’s Blog.
Regards,
Linda

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FeltWEST

August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments

After visiting what seemed to be a hundred felting sites, I happened on FeltWest.  Just sit back and look through their collection of wonderful felted items.  This site is filled with worthwhile articles also.  Enjoy and let me know what you think.
FeltWEST is a non-profit organization aiming to:
Promote the making of quality felt in Western [...]

Heart Felt

August 18, 2007 | 2 Comments

This is an excellent site to pickup roving, yarns and patterns.  If any of you have been lusting after Noni bags patterns, Deb has them all on her site.  At Heart Felt Knits they are dedicated to bringing you quality products and unique specialty items for all your knitting, crocheting and felting needs Deb also has [...]

This felted scarf is so lovely and the pattern is free from:
Berroco
I really want to share it with you.   If anyone makes it I will show it here.
Regards,
Linda
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