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SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE

2010-10-11T16:04:00.002-08:00

September - Elements - Express an element such as earth, air, water, fire. Again, the form can be whatever you like.

judelicious
Title: Earth & Fire
Dimensions: Um, size 8-10 (Australian!)
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted merino panels, feather-stitched together by hand
Date Created: Autumn, 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

Tess
Title: Earth.
Materials and technique; wet felted pot hand dyed wool silk sari silk waste and earth toned button for embelishment.
dimensions 5 inches high
Date made 2009 completed in 2010
artist: Tess

WhingingNinja
Title To Fly
Dimensions The hanging bit of the ornament is about 6 inches long the butterfly itself is
about three inches wide and probably about two or so inches tall Techniques & Materials Used wet felting and needle felting and a litlte sewing and threading.
http://indigoinkcreations.blogspot.com/

MTRuth
Title: Coastline
Dimensions: 5"x7"
Techniques & Materials Used: recycled sweater, mixed breed wool, Wensleydale locks, embroidery thread; machine and hand needle felted, hand embroidered
Date Created: August 2010
Artists Name: Ruth Lane
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

coraldee
Juniper, a female Basset Hound
almost 3 inches to the top of her head, about 4 & 1/2 inches from the base of the tail to the end of the nose
a Polyfil body needle felted over a wire armature and then colors are applied and felted to finish the color of the dog and for final sculpting of more prominent features.
http://flickr.com/photos/corkys_latest/
http://coraldee.etsy.com/
http://corky-coraldee.blogspot.com/

LittleCuddlers
Title - 'Cloud 9'
Dimensions - 5"x3"x3"
Techniques & Materials Used - Oval core with little balls of different sizes attached all over it with a final whispy layer-white wool from unknown origins, grey roving, blue roving- needle felted sculpture
Date Created - 9/9/10
Artists Name - Karen aka LittleCuddlers

loulou
Title: Conversation on world peace
Dimensions about 15'' tall
Techniques & Materials Used needle and wet felting
Date Created: spring 2010
earth and water (represented by the globe)
air by the dove
and fire by the desire and the will of changing things
Artists Name: Louou

fleurdefibre
Title: SOLAR
Outside dimensions: 19 1/2" by 16 1/2"
Completed: June 2010
Wet felt.
Fibres: Dark Romney, Finn (yellow), Merino, sari silk, bits of wool yarn, hand dyed wool fibres
I included a close up of the piece to better see the movement of colours.
What better illustration of life, light, fire than our own sun! Inspired by recent pictures of the sun from space.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fleurdefibre
http://picasaweb.google.ca/fleurdefibre

butterflygirl
I have just started to experiment with wool. I bought a beautiful piece of hand dyed wool and I decided to create a wall hanging with a small piece of it. I used some turquoise and magenta wool roving to create a butterfly with a swirling flying trail to represent flight in the air. I beaded and added yarn scraps as a border and beads to the butterfly. I then used yarn to attach it to a drift wood branch to hang it.

medievalfelter
Earth
Made with natural colored Icelandic wool.
http://www.wanderingsheep.com/blog1/

AUGUST CHALLENGE = EXPRESS A MOVEMENT

2010-08-30T16:32:00.001-08:00

August - Movement - Express a movement such as jumping, dancing, running etc. Again, this can be in any format that you wish.

Title The Bobtails job
Dimensions 3 x 4 . 5 inches
Technique and materials used.....wet felted with various merino fibe and hand dyed mohair from my Angora goats, little bit of hand embroidery and machine stitching.
Date created August 2010
Artist Tess.

Title Exploding stars
Dimensions 2 or so inches wide, and about four inches long
Technique and materials used.....Merino wool roving, silk blend merino and BFL for the "stars" wet felted over a resist made from bubble wrap.
Date created August 31st 2010
Artist WhingingNinja AKA Jess
http://indigoinkcreations.blogspot.com/

July challenge - Feelings

2010-07-26T16:50:00.000-08:00

loulou
Title Here comes the bride
Dimensions about 12''
Techniques & Materials Used wet and needle felting, merino
Date Created june 2010

jjb
Techniques and materials: All beads and the cross were needle felted, with Norwegian C-1 batt. The thin cord wrapped around the cross was wet felted. It is all strung together with silk beading thread. It also includes gold tone beads and one gold filled St. Francis medal.
completed on June 15th, 2010
Created by jjb
http://www.etsy.com/shop/FeltLikeHelping
FeltLikeHelping.etsy.com

June Challenge- Felt an Abstract

2010-07-26T16:32:00.000-08:00

patdixie
Title: Welted Waves
Dimensions: 19" x 16"
Techniques & Materials Used: Merino, falkland, silk carrier rods, wool neps, silk, wool yarn
Date Created: February, 2010
Artists Name: Pat Moore (patdixie)

medievalfelter
Lorna Rankin
www.wanderingsheep.com/blog1/

fleurdefibre
Title: "Fire under the Snow"
Dimensions: 13.5 inches by 18"
Fibres: Dark Romney, Targhee/Rambouillet, Finn, Angelina, silk, and other local wool from mixed breed sheep
Wet felting, with needle felting for details.
Completed June 2010.
Inspired by volcano eruption in Iceland.....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fleurdefibre
http://picasaweb.google.ca/fleurdefibre

MTRuth
Title: Hot Topography
Dimensions: 11" diameter
Techniques & Materials Used: mixxed breed wool, merino, Wensleydale locks, various embroidery threads; wet felted, hand embroidered
Date Created: May 2010
Artists Name: Ruth Lane
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

Feltfinland
Title: Floor mat
Dimensions: 2m x 1.5 at start. 1.5m x1.4m at end
Techniques & Materials Used: Prefelt core, Needlefelted finn wool mix, prefelted rectangles of assorted green wool!
Date Created:June 2010
Artists Name:Amanda Heikkinen
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

Tess
Here is my entry for this months challenge.
title: "Moroccan Fantasy"
Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches.
Techniques and Materials used: Merino fibre, hand dyed Mohair locks, hand dyed Silk carrier rods, hand dyed cotton scrim. Wet felted and machine embroidered.
Date: 20th June 2010.
Artist: Tess.

karenrao
The Green
68cm x 74cm
Wet and needle felted
Merino 64 wool and bamboo
March 2010
http://karenrao.com/

christiewn
Title: Untitled
Dimensions: Approx 30 x 40 cm
Technique & materials: Wet felted merino wool with silk hankies and trapped threads. Felted in one large piece, then cut into sections and felted further. Embellished with buttonhole stitch, beads, thread covered washers and kumihimo braids. Inspired by the colours of the sunset at sea.
Date created: Completed June 2010
http://www.panachelace.com.au/

May Challenge

2010-05-22T18:48:00.002-08:00

May - Sculpture - Felt a sculpture - this could be almost anything as long as it is in a sculptural format i.e. 3 dimensional.

Tess
Title; "Normie Knobs"
dimensions; 5 inches
technique and materials used, needlefelted using merino and spun wool.
Date; 2009.
artist: Tess

Feltfinland
Title Bald eagle
Dimensions Approx 15 x15 cms
Techniques & Materials Used - Finn wool, locks of unknown origin plus a few teeswater locks. Needle felted
Date Created 02 05 2010
Artists Name Amanda Heikkinen
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

Grazim

http://www.grazim.etsy.com/
http://www.artfire.com/users/Grazim
http://www.feltingbygrazim.com/

karenrao
'Pimp my Toaster'
West Pier
May 2009
approx 18cm x 12cm
Merino wool - wet felted

Kaza
This is a pic of Li'l Benny, my son when he was about 3yrs old,
http://www.karensfeltworks.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felting_fever/
http://fibreforyou.bigcartel.com/

Felted World
Title - Richie
Dimensions - 12" Tall
Techniques & Materials Used - Needle felted wool over a wire armature
Date Created - May 2010
By - Robert Egbert
http://www.feltedworld.com/

zed
Title: Felt head
Dimensions: 6.5 inches tall
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle felted, carded lambswool and English 56s
Date Completed: 28th May 2010
Artists Name: zed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01
http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/

loulou
Title: The cat lady
Dimensions 15 inches
Techniques & Materials Used needle and wet felting of merino
Date Created spring 2010

DooflinkyDolls

Title: Cecily, Serpent of the Sherbet Sea
Needle and wet felt combo
NZ Corriedale, Merino, small bit of wire in tail
Completed: May 28, 2010
http://dooflinkydolls.blogspot.com/

APRIL CHALLENGE Portrait or Self Portrait

2010-04-13T16:44:00.003-08:00

This months challenge is to Felt a figure or a flat felt piece in the portrait form - this can be of another person or do a self Portrait,

Kaza
100% needle felted
Hand dyed Merino lambswool
Made 19th of Feb 2010
Karen
http://www.karensfeltworks.blogspot.com/
http://www.kaza.etsy.com/

Grazim

Feltfinland
Title Man in the Moon
Dimensions 24cms diameter
Techniques & Materials Used Needlefelted using Finn wool and short fibred carded Merino
Date Created April 2010
Artists Name Amanda Heikkinen
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

loulou
Title A visit from aunt Rosa
Dimensions 18 ''
Techniques & Materials Used neddle and wet felting + a bit of up-cycled wool
Date Created spring 2010
Artists Name loulou

Tess
title: "Tinx" over the stable door.
Dimensions: 12 x 9
Techniques and materials used: Merino fibre and wool, Mohair locks. wet felted background with needle felted sculpted head.
Date; 30th April 2010.
Artist: Tess.

MARCH CHALLENGE, MONOCHROMATIC

2010-03-08T13:08:00.004-09:00

March - Monochromatic or Black & White - Felt something with a monochromatic color scheme (all one hue with a variety of tones in that hue) or felt something in a black and white color scheme.

patdixie
Title: White on white
Dimensions 12 inches x 12 inches
Techniques & Materials Used Wensleydale locks and roving
Date Created October 2009
Artists Name (forum username or real name) Patdixie - Pat Moore

Feltfinland
Title Felted seat pads
Dimensions approx 35-38 cms square
Techniques & Materials Used Finn wool, made to prefelt stage. Needle felted detail using black pre yarn(? pencil roving), final wet felting.
Date Created February 2010
Artists Name Amanda Heikkinen (FeltFinland)
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

Dunsire
I used Merino tops for the felting and it is on a bought A4 size piece of wool mixture felt, through trial and error I've found that wool mixture holds it shape far better than pure wool felt for the way I make these pictures.
The picture is A4 in size.
I've just titled it Cherie.
I used a size 36 felting needle throughout but this doesn't mean you can't use a finer one for details.
I blended loads of variations of white, grey and very little black to create the picture.
Hugs Joyce
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunsire/
http://joyce-feltlike-it.blogspot.com/

karenrao
Monotone Rockpool
48h x 58h cm approx
January 2010
Merino wool with miscelleneous threads (picked up from charity shops)
All wet felted
Karen

loulou
Title: The graduation
Dimensions : about 15''
Techniques & Materials Used : neddle and wet felting
Date Created: spring 2009
Artists Name: loulou

Tess
title: The three pots
Dimensions: 6 x 7 inches.
Technique and materials: All wet felted with chunky prefelts for added texture, mixed breed white fleece, Mohair locks from "Evie" and coloured Dorper sheep fleece.
Date: 11 March 2010.
Artist: Tess.

kidnme
Koala Bear
2 3/4 inches tall
needle felted C-1 wool
March 2010
by Kidnme

angelab
It's called Stingray (just because the shape makes me think of one)
Wet felted in natural Merino fibres

Shepherdess
Title: Water Bottle Cozy
Materials: Hand dyed merino wool and silk hanky, ribbon, stone beads
Technique: wet felted
Date: March 23, 2010
Name: Ann McElroy
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

zed
Title: Monochrome
Dimensions: 12 x 7 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted using merino, bamboo, ramie and cotton noil
Date Created: Saturday 27th March 2010
Artists Name: Zed
http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01

WhingingNinja
Title Terry the terrier
Dimensions about an inch and a half long and an inch or so high
Techniques & Materials Used merino and alpaca wool all hand needle felted
Date Created March 27th 2010
Artists Name WhingingNinja

Fee
Title: Spring Scarf
Techniques: Wet felted Masham with acrylic and lace
Date created: March 21 / 2010
Artist's name: Fee
http://s494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/mydogxena/Felting/?action=view&current=52ba1d80.pbw&t=1245168454

janekiwi
Monochromatic
Black and White Soft Touch Scarf
128 x 21 cm
Nuno felted merino wool and second hand scarf
29 march 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38927746@N03/

FEBUARY CHALLENGE

2010-02-23T13:22:00.004-09:00

February - Warm Colors - Felt something with the warm side of the color wheel - reds, yellows, oranges etc.

loulou
Title poppy scarf
Dimensions 48''
Techniques & Materials Used needle felting, merino and silk hankie
Date Created January 2010
Artists Name loulou

karenrao
'Rosy Rockpool'
20 x 20 cm
Wet felted using merino tops and miscellaneous threads
Feb 2010
Karen Rao

WhingingNinja
Technique
all hand needle felted using merino and corriedale (sp) wool as well as some mohair
for the gray color

Shepherdess
Title: Holiday memory
Dimensions: approx 10"x12"
Techniques & Materials: wet felted background, needle felted pop outs. prefelt base with merino colours added and no name sheep curls. The core wool for the needle felt is coriadale and the colour is merino.
Date Created: December 2009 and January 2010
Artists Name: Ann McElroy

CreturFetur
Title: Exquisita the Alebrije
Dimensions: 5 1/2" x 2 1/2" x 7"
Techniques & Materials Used: Core and Corriedale top wool, needlefelted
Date Created: Finished yesterday, Feb 10 '10!
Artists Name: Lety R-Z (Cretur Fetur)
Optional Link: http://creturfetur.blogspot.com
http://creturfetur.etsy.com/
CreturFetur

zed
Title: vessels
Dimensions: aprox 3-4 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: wet felted, merino, bamboo, fancy fibres, silk, soya bean fibre, silk noil
Date Created: 12th Feb 2010
Artists Name: Zed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01
http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/

patdixie
Title: Coloured waves
Dimensions: 15" x 21"
Techniques & Materials Used: wet felted, pre-felt backing, merino, polworth, silk carrier rods, degummed slik cacoons, wool yarn, silk and wool nepps
Date Created: January 16, 2010

j eanm
Title: License Plate
Dimensions:12" X6"
Technique:needlefelted-fleece-prefelt
Created: August 2009
Artist: Jean Melton
http://www.picturetrail.com/jeanym
http://flickr.com/photos/11734102@N08

Tess
Title; Baby Birds.
Dimensions: 4 inches across.
Techniques and materials Used: Dorper fleece Mohair locks and handspun yarn needlefelted into a nest, merino wool and silk throwers waste for birds beaks and a few feathers.
Dated finsihed 25/2/10.
Artist; Tess.

hilltopbeader
Rosy Nuno Felt Clutch
9 1/2" x 6"
Nuno felted with Wenslydale roving, bulky wool yarns and silk fabrics
on cotton gauze
Artist: Arlene Watson

janekiwi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38927746@N03/

Fee
Title: "Organizer" (with pockets)
Dimensions: 5 x 15 inches
Techniques and materials Used: Corriedale wet felted (some needle felting)
Dated finsihed 28/2/10.
Artist: Fee

viltk
Title: "Vessels for felted eggs"
Dimensions: 14 cm high and diameter 33cm (5.51 inch and 12.99 inches for his diameter)
Techniques and materials Used: Merino fleece and pencilroving, wet felted
Dated finsihed 28/2/10.
Artist: Viltk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/viltalakim/
http://www.viltalakim.etsy.com/

JANUARY 2010 CHALLENGE

2010-01-26T14:30:00.005-09:00

January's Challenge is to use Cool Colors,
Felt something with the cool side of the color wheel - blues, purples, dark greens etc.

ingermaaike1
Title Purple deep winter slippers
Dimensions size 37 eu
Techniques & Materials Used wetfelting and nuno felting around a resist
Date Created 09-01-2010
Artists Name IngerMaaike

Jasmine
Title: Floating in the Moonlit Sky
Dimensions: 20cm x 25cm
Technique: Making very loosely felted prefelt. When pre-felt dry, peel it in half carefully to make an even finer pre-felt. Needle stitch the detail into the pre-felt. Lay picture down on bubble wrap. Added layer of silk nuno gauze to the top (to enhance snowy feel to the picture). Nuno felted.
Materials: White merino, pre-dyed 70% merino/30%silk blended wool, silk nuno gauze, felting needle.
Date made 12/1/10
http://natureswhispers.blogspot.com/

Living Felt
Title: Ocean Nuno Felt Scarf
Dimensions: 6" x 53"
Techniques & Materials Used: Nuno Felt, Merino + Merino Silk Blend + Silk Chiffon Scarf
Date Created: 01/2010
Modeled by my husband, Rodney Gene.
Created by: Marie Spaulding
http://feltingsupplies.livingfelt.com/
http://livingfelt.wordrpress.com

MTRuth
Title: Burgundy Slippers
Dimensions: size 9
Techniques & Materials Used: Merino and silk; wet felted around a resist
Date Created: 01/16/2010
Artists Name: Ruth Lane
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

coutureuse
Title : Blue CD
Size : CD
Technique : felt + silk + rayon scarf punched with embellisher + embelissements (beads, hand dyed lace)
Date : 18th january 2010
Artist : Coutureuse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coutureuse/

Tess
title ;Your favourite colours
dimensions: 7 x 6 1/2.
technique; Wet felted with machine embroidery
Materials, Merino, fancy wool yarn, kid Mohair locks from my herd, silk, black plaited cord and vintage button closure.
date finished 22/1/10.

karenrao
Summer Wave
152w x 72h cm approx
Freehanging Wall Art using wet felting and needle felting
May 2009
Karen Rao
http://karenrao.com/

Fee
Title: Small Purse
Dimensions: 10 x 6 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: Corriedale and Merino, wet felted
Date Created: Jan 22 / 2010
http://s494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/mydogxena/Felting/?action=view&current=52ba1d80.pbw&t=1245168454

loulou
Title The graduate
Dimensions about 12 inches/30cm
Techniques & Materials Used wet/neddle felting
Date Created may 2009
material merino
artist name loulou

MirlyElfie
Title: hat
size: approx. 12"
materials: merino
method: wet felted around fabric resist
artist: Mirly
started and completed 1/29/10
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mirlyelfie

Feltfinland
Title: Deep sea
Dimensions: 70cms x 50cms
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted using Finn wool and Norwegian C1 for the base, design using merino, silk, yarn, wool neps, finn and gotland locks, felt beads from Ruth!
Date Created: 30cJanuary 2010
Artist Amanda Heikkinen
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland

http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

Shepherdess
Title: post card and 2 trading cards
Dimensions: 4x6 and 2.5x3.5
Techniques & Materials Used:wet felting, machine felting, and hand stitching. felt, silk and thread
Date Created:January 2010
Artist: Ann McElroy
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

December Challenge

2009-12-15T13:34:00.003-09:00

December Challenge is all about the Seasons, Your favorite season, all four seasons or perhaps representations of the seasons of life.

fleurdefibre
Wet felt.
About the size of a tennis ball.
Wool, mohair, metallic yarn, wool yarn.
Made in November 09.

fleurdefibre
Autumn Colours felt ball
About the size of a tennis ball.
Wet felt. Fabric core. Chained linen, crochet and embedded on the fibres.
Colours are from wool yarn, woven on the surface before felting.
Crochet linen bead.... extension of the linen on the ball.
Made in October '09, in the peak of the Fall colours!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fleurdefibre
http://picasaweb.google.ca/fleurdefibre

brattyblueeyes
Mr and Mrs Claus
Needle felted with Dorset wool
Each 11 inches tall

Shepherdess
Title: summer sunset
Dimensions:10x12
Method: wet felted using a prefelt base. using icelandic batt. Not sure which long wool breed the curls are.
Made: Dec 12 2009
Artist: Ann McElroy
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

MTRuth
Title: Christmas Ornaments
Dimensions: 3" diameter
Method: Wet felted over plastic whiffle balls with bell inside, needle felted designs, yarn hanger - mixed breed wool, merino, commercial yarn for hanger
Made: November and December 2009
Artist: Ruth Lane
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

Tess
Title: Snowflake the little Alpaca Cria.
Dimensions: approx 5 inches
Techniques and materials used. Needle felted with whiter NZ merino, glass beads Xmas themed fabric, wool stuffing gold thread for halter.
Date created: Dec 2008.
Artist: Tess.

Tess
Title: "The little Drummer Boy"
Dimensions: approx 6 inches
technique and materials used: Needle felted Aplaca fibre from Sarah's herd, glass bead eyes embroidered, Xmas themed cushion stuffed with wool fibre and drum.
Date created: Dec 2008.
Artist: Tess.

jeanm
Here is the elf I used on a greeting..... not time to do another right now. He is about 2" by 2" ....all needle felted and created December 20th.
Jean
http://www.picturetrail.com/jeanym
http://flickr.com/photos/11734102@N08

Feltfinland
Title Robin
Dimensions approx 15 cms long and 10 cms high
Techniques & Materials Used :Entirely needle felted using Finn wool and Norwegian C1
Date Created December 2009
Artists Name:Amanda Heikkinen - FeltFinland
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

November Challenge Entries

2009-11-03T15:17:00.006-09:00

Lets go on a magical journey through the world of faeries and fantasy.

Ben Mcfuzzylugs
Title
Felix the Sea horse/ Dragonfly
Dimensions
Approx 6 inches (not the wooden prop)
Techniques & Materials Used
Needle felted onto a wire tail with Angelina wings
Date Created
2/11/2009
BenMcuzzylugs (Pam)
http://benmcfuzzylugs.blogspot.com/

The Enchanted World
Feltfinland
Title Not from this planet!
Dimensions Approx 8"/15-20 cms tall including pot
Techniques & Materials Used Needlefelted using Finn and Norwegian C1 wool, felted yarn
Date Created October -November 2009
Amanda Heikkinen
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

Rosiewildwoman
I have a fascination with pods and find their life process from beginning to end a magical journey. The "Sprouting Pod" emerged as I played with the wool and I inserted the sprouts into a felted "taco like" shell and then added some beads and wire and attached the the creation to a colorful headband. It is a kick to wear. My inspiration also came from the "Fascinator Hats and Head pieces that I have been researching.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildwomancreations/collections/72157621745245215

kategreg
title : little elf (brooch)
Dimensions : 3 inches
Techniques & Materials Used :wool needle felting
Date Created : september 2009
http://katelovegreg.blogspot.com/
http://handmadebyvicky.blogspot.com/

Dunsire
My Nymph is now complete and she stands 14" or 35.5 cms high when standing. The Nymph and Robin are made from Merino tops and the forest floor is some wool fancy spun I bought by whim. I lay a piece of bought felt on a block of packing material and felted the forest floor onto that. The rocks are a mixture of 15 year old wool and some black and grey Merino.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunsire/

DooflinkyDolls
Name: Gilbert
Created: Sept 2009
Size: roughly 4" x 7"
Material: NZ Corriedale, small amount of Merino and Coopworth/Silk Noil Blend.
Joyce C.
http://dooflinkydolls.blogspot.com/

oddfae
Name: Handstand
Created: Nov 2009
Size: 6" tall
Material: NZ Corriedale, Merino roving
http://oddfae.blogspot.com/
http://www.oddfae.etsy.com/

brattyblueeyes
This is Zoad! And he is looking for love... XOXO
Title: Zoad
Dimensions:10 inches high
Techniques and Materials: Needle felted with N 1 wool
Date: November 2009

oiolin
Title: Dragons in love.
Dimensions: He is 8cm high, She's 7cm.
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle felting. Dyed wool.
Date Created: October 2009
Artists Name: oiolin (Maria Voznesenskaya)

October Challenge

2009-10-22T21:01:00.006-08:00

October Challenge is anything from the sky above to the ocean's below.

Kaza
Garden of Flowers
All needle felted using Corriedale, merino, gotland, viscose nepps and my spindle spun coil yarn.
Measures approx 10inch by 6inch,
http://www.kaza.etsy.com/
http://www.karensfeltworks.artfire.com/
http://www.karensfeltworks.blogspot.com/

MrsG2003
Title: Fishies
Dimension: 6" x 10"
Date completed: Spring 2009
Techniques: Needle felted
Materials: alpaca fleece (of course)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31272800@N05/

mlmtf6
Title: Splashy IV award
Dimension: 8" x 5" approximately (I forgot to measure but it's a cigar box)
Date completed: Spring 2009
Techniques: Needle felted, collage
Materials: wool roving, paper, pearls, seashells, pewter face, etc.

Jasmine
http://natureswhispers.blogspot.com/2009/10/climate-change.html

zed
Here's mine:
Title: Sea and Sunset
Dimension: 9.5" x 18"
Date completed: 17th October 2009
Techniques: textured felt-sewn into netting and felted in the washing machine
Materials: merino, wensleydale, Bluefaced Leicester, organza, silk scarf, silk hankies, carded icelandic, lambswool, English 56s
Artist: zed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01
http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/

Tess
Title: Ingers Homespun.
Materials: homespun wool, Merino fibre, wool neps glass beads, and plaited homespun for the strap.
Techniques used. slightly needlefelted homespun into shapes and laid it all out for wet felting. Some free motion machine embroidery, embelished with glass beads.
dimensions , 6 x 5 1/2.
Artist: Tess
Dated completed: October 09.

loulou
''Ovo'' is the name
18'' (45cm) in height
Completed in early spring 2009
Needle and wet felting are the techniques
merino and silk are the material

MirlyElfie
Backing is premade wool felt. Design is needle felted.
merino roving and other wool roving (not sure what kind)
size is around 11" by 11"
Sea Dragon
Mirly

funnyfelter
Size is a little bigger than 6" square.
Gail x
http://www.gailburtonart.com/
http://www.gailburtonart.blogspot.com/

MTRuth
Title: Surf's Up
Dimensions: 11" x 16"
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle felted on Janome needle felting machine; Recycled Fulled Sweater, merino, cheesecloth (scrim), silk, leicester locks, Cotswold cross, mixed breed wool, mohair locks.
Date Created: October 18th
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

kategreg
fish baby rattle
http://katelovegreg.blogspot.com/
http://handmadebyvicky.blogspot.com/

Feltfinland
Title: Jellyfish
Dimensions: 31 x 83 cms
Techniques & Materials Used: Background - Finn wool, merino and silk. Jelly fish - needle felted body to prefelt stage - then wet felted with hand spun yarn, shop yarn, soya, silk hanky, wool knops for detail.
Date Created: October 21st 2009
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

judelicious
Title: Great Barrier Reef
Dimensions: 37x37 cms approx
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted overlocking off-cuts (cotton/polyester ribbing) in merino
Date Created: October 16th 2009

judelicious
Title: Bay of Islands, Gt Ocean Rd, Vic
Dimensions: Mmm, I don't recall. About 40x70cm
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted merino and silk embellished with an assortment of buttons and beads
Artist: Jude
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

patdixie
Title: Sparkly Fish
Dimensions: 5.5 inches x 7 inches
Techniques & material: backing is merino prefelt that I dyed pink, everything else is romney with some added bling of hot fix "jewels"
Date created: Needle felted in May, jewels added October 28, 2009
Artist: Pat Moore

filzweiber
Title: Under the sea
Dimensions: 28 x 34 cm
Techniques & Materials Used: Wetfelting ( Merinowook and Merinolocks, pieces of taffeta fabric was feltet in
Date Created: October 30th

Fee
Title: Ginger's adventures
Dimensions: 19x11 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: wet felted Merione and Corriedale
Date Created: October 30th
http://s494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/mydogxena/Felting/?action=view&current=52ba1d80.pbw&t=1245168454

Shepherdess
Title: flower sculpture
Dimensions: 11x10x6.5
Technique: wet felted and needle felt to attach the middle bits.
Fiber: medium domestic sheep's wool and silk
Date created spring 09(I think....is it fall already?)
Artist: Ann
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

SEPT CHALLENGE, Things that go together

2009-09-22T15:44:00.005-08:00

September Challenge is to create things that go together.

teriann
I guess I'll start out the "go together" challenge with a loose interpretation of the theme.
These guys are going on an adventure together.
Here they are on a recent trip to the Pt Betsie Lighthouse. Frankfort, Mi.
Title: Benzie Gnomes
Dimensions: 8" tall
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle Felted Wool and Alpaca
Date Created: August 2009
Artists Name: Teriann
http://www.tericanepa.com/

Feltfinland
Title - Group Hug!
Dimensions - between 2-4 inches fat and 3-6 inches long eye stalk!
Techniques & Materials Used - Needlefelted Finn and Norwegian C1 wool
Date Created - Spring /Summer 2009
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

ksyushenka
So here is my set :-D
Title "Kalla"
Dimensions: Scarf ca. 100 x 20 cm
Flower ca. 17,0 x 7,5 cm
Techniques & Materials Used wet felting, wool, silk
Date Created summer 2009
http://de.dawanda.com/shop/ksyushenka

judelicious
Title: Who Says a Princess has to wear Organza??
Dimensions: Size 1 (12-18mths)
Materials & Techniques Used: (Inger will recognise these as she sent mot of these to me in the fibre swap, and converted me to 16micron merino, thanks Inger!!) Nuno felted over resist merino and silk reversible dress, with merino and silk wet felted on resist hat. Flower and cord decorations also wet felted.
Date Created: September 2009
Artist: Judelicious Felts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

Feltstruction
Title: Twins
Dimensions: 7" x 4 1/2"
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle felted white polyester. Put into a jellybean jar with salted tea.
Date Created: Finished Sept 22, 2009.
Artists Name:Feltstruction

Tess
Title: Beads
Dimensions: Necklace has a 15 inch drop.
Materials Used: Pumice stone, glass beads, Merino wool.
Techniques used: I wet felted and embelished with tiny black seed beads the centre piece of Pumice from Mount Ruapehu (an active volcano) in the central North Island of New Zealand, then wet felted various sized beads using mauve and yellow toned merino wool, and created a necklace and bracelet.
Dated created: September 2009
Artist: Tess

zed
Title Feltunited
Dimensions aprox 10.5 x 10.5 inches each
Techniques & Materials Used wet felted with merino tops and dyed silk top, handspun and felted yarn
Date Created 15th and 17th September 09
Artists Name zed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01
http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/

Shepherdess
Artist: Ann McElroy
Title: wool and silk hats
technique: wet felt over resist
materials: wool and hand dyed silk caps
Size: 22.5 hat size
Made: spring 09
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

August Challenge

2009-08-20T20:26:00.003-08:00

This months Challenge is creating something using Two different Techniques
Combine Wet Felting, Needle Felting or Machine Felting

ingermaaike
Title Felt and knit vest
Dimensions about europe and size 38
Techniques & Materials Used washing, carding,spinning,dyeing,knitting,felting
Date Created nearly completely finished in august 2009
http://www.ingermaaike.etsy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingermaaike2/
http://www.ingermaaike.nl/

Tweedyshaw
Here is my "Sunshine Bag"
about 10 inches by 8 inches (or 25 x 20 cm -if I did the conversion right)
The bag is wet felted using a resist pattern. The same techique I used to make a pair of slippers. The sun is needle felted on to cover a thin spot.
Created in July, 2009 by
Bonnie Tweedy Shaw
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tweedyartunlimited/

Ben Mcfuzzylugs
Nuno felted, then embroidered with seed beads and then needle felted onto felt (to try and keep some of the texture of the nuno felt
Its 3 inches by 8 inches
Then this
Nuno then needle felted - 8 inches by 8 inches
http://benmcfuzzylugs.blogspot.com/

gunknitter
Title : " Dosette-Box-cover"
Dimensions: 12 X 10 cm.
Techniques & Materials used: Wet felted and needle felted on top. Norwegian wool C1.
Date created : august 2009
Made by: gunknitter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunknitter/
http://gunknitter.blogspot.com/

judelicious
Title: The Rhythm of Life
Dimensions: 112 x 48cm (44x19) wallhanging
Materials and techniques used: Wet felted background in polwarth and corriedale, with needle felted hand spun merino
Created: August 2009
Artist: Judelicious felts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

Tess
title: The Kid.
Dimensions: 71/2 x 4 inches.
Techniques: Wet felted with needlefelted Angora goat. Button hole closure.
Materials: Silk, Merino, dyed Mohair free motion sewing, wool for needle felting.
Date. finishing off details done 28th August 09
Made by : Tess

Jasmine
This rug/blanket weighs approximately 0.7kg. Approximate width 101.6cm (40"). Approximate length 134.6 cm (53"). I have used a combination of natural Merino wool, Shetland, Gotland and Blue faced Leicester wool in this project. the ragged edges that you can see in the pictures of this blanket hanging on the line are intentional. I wanted a rippled effect to continue throughout this piece. Nature does not hold too many straight edges. I also wanted to create a fleece style shape as the rug/blanket is 100% wool. The project was predominantly wet felted but I have also used needle felting to reinforce the edges, working with the natural flow and direction that the wool has taken. It is my first attempt at needle felting and I am pleased with needle felting as a medium.
http://natureswhispers.blogspot.com/

patdixie
Title - Field of Flowers
This piece is 15" x 16", the background is prefelt merino that I dyed. Stems and flowers are prefelts, stems wet felted to back ground, petals machine needle felted and needle felted. Grasses are various locks that are needle felted.
Completed by Pat Moore on August 28, 2009

Sheed-o
My first wedding dress, felted and other wise, that i've designed and created.
It's a nuno-felted dress using marino wool that we kettle dyed, as well as silk that was light blue, blue and chocolate.
Areas of the dress were also needle felted(for hemming and invisible sewing)
The top of the dress is adorned with freshwater pearls and swarovski crystals.
We put about 24 silver grommets in the back and laced it up using a 2inch wide natural silk ribbon that trailed along the ground.
In her hair and on the right side of her dress are two nuno felted flowers with the same freshwater pearls and swarovski crystals.
She was a dream! And the forest wedding made here look like a faire Princess!!
Title : Knotty Wedding dress & Hair Piece
Dimension : size 32(ish) dress (5 feet ish)
Techniques & Materials Used : Nuno-felted & needle felted - kettle dyed marino wool, silk, freshwater pearls, swarovski crystals
Date Created : August 1st
Artists Name : Mahshed Sheed-o Hooshmand
http://www.sheed-o.com/

July Felting Challenge

2009-08-02T16:01:00.004-08:00

July Challenge is Mixed Media, combining felting with another medium.

filz10a
This Vessel is the first larger Item I ever wetfelted. I felted it around a Balloon.
It hasn't got a title
It's about 25 cm in diamter
Inside I used grey merino? with colordots, Outside is Merino
I stiched the lines on with cotton and enhanced it with glass beads.
I made it this spring (march/april
http://filz10a.blogspot.com/

jeanm
Title: Chickadee on a Stump
Dimensions: about 6½" tall
Technique & materials: The stump I created in polymer clay and the chickadee is needle felted with a clay beak.
Date Created: The stump was a year or two ago and the bird in the last week.
Artist: Jean Melton
http://www.picturetrail.com/jeanym

Cytel
Title: From Fairy They Flew
Dimensions: each bird is about 12"
Technique & materials: Wetfelted bird, using wool and silk. Embroidered eyes, various yarns, threads silks and a rhinestone bejewed eye.
Date Created: July 2009
Artist: Cytel
http://cytels.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30212986@N02/

Fee
Title: Summer Bag
Dimensions: 15 x 10"
Technique & materials: Wet felted Corriedale - embellished with beads and buttons and scarf.
Date Created: started May 09 and finished July 2009
Artist: Fee
http://s494.photobucket.com/albums/rr310/mydogxena/Felting/?action=view&current=52ba1d80.pbw&t=1245168454

Jasmine
The mobile is made from feet felt that we made last month, gemstones, crystals, wood, glass and metal beads, rope supports made from friendship bands, bells, and of course the wood is gorse that we collected on our trip to Wales.
http://natureswhispers.blogspot.com/

Minimizer
It measures about 11-1/2 inches wide by about 8 inches tall. The body of the bag is black natural Finnwool, needled over a foam rectangle. The trim around the bag top and the handle, along with some of the pattern are mushroom dyed Finnwool. There's some natural gray FW and lichen and plant dyed FW make up the rest of the pattern. The flap and handle and trims were needle felted and wet felted separately, attached by needling along with some hidden, reinforcement heavy thread stitching here and there. It closes with a magnetic snap. I added an extra "floor" by needling and wet felting a piece a bit larger than the bag base.

Feltfinland
Title:Experiment 1
Dimensions: 10x10cms
Technique & materials: White Finn wool base, leaf skeletons, white merino top layer - wet felted(carefully!)
Date Created:July 2009
Title:Experiment 2
Dimensions: 15x20cms
Technique & materials: Norwegian C1 wool, glass marbles - wet felted(with difficulty!)
Date created :July 2009
Artist: Amanda Heikkinen

Tess
Title: "D" is for Donkey.
Dimensions: 13 x 9 1/2 inches.
Technique and materials used: various wool fibre, tiny amount of silk, needle felted, canvas artist board, acrylic paints, beads and wood.
Artist: Tess
Date Created: finished 22 july 09

katekate78
Here is my Goblin and Dragonfly.
Kasey

judelicious
Title: 'That Special Occasion stationery'
Dimensions: 6 x A5 (approx) sheets
Materials and techniques used: Wet felted masham and silk cobweb felt, combined with paper pulp.
Date Created: 31st July 2009
Artist: Judelicions Felts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

MTRuth
Title: Jellyfish Lamp
Dimensions: 10" diameter, 20" tall
Materials and techniques used: Wet felted merino and Wensleydale locks, Machine embroidered with metallic thread, Tentacles machine needle felted with Wensleydale locks and eyelash yarn, Hand stitched to an acrlyic lamp shade.
Date Created: July 31, 2009
Artist: Ruth Lane

JUNE FELTING CHALLENGE

2009-06-14T19:20:00.003-08:00

This month Challenge is using Natural Undyed Fibre
Our favorite fiber animals give us a lovely variety of natural colored wool to use for this challenge.

leicesterazr
spiral purse
11" by 8.5"
compleately 100% needle felted- yes, that was before I learned how to wet felt. the Black is Border Leicester (Jenny, Jen-Jen) and the white is Romney yarn from some sheep (Anastasia &Princess) that I sold a while back. It was my very 1st yarn.
october '08
http://www.freewebs.com/freedom_farm/

kenleighacres
I am so excited about this month's challenge! I have been working on a project for the Black Sheep Gathering and it fits perfectly. I raise Jacob sheep and made a jacket using one of their fleeces. The fleece came from Symphony and I love the brown tones in her fleece. I sheared, washed, carded, wet felted, sewed, and dry felted.
Shannon Phifer
June 2009
http://www.kenleigh-acres.com/
http://www.kenleighacres.wordpress.com/

judelicious
Title: Winter Vase (yep it's winter here!)
Dimensions: Approx 38cm tall, 17cm diametre
Technique & materials used: Wet felted natural falkland, border leicester x, lambswool and both carded and natural mohair locks.
Date created: June 8th 2009
Artist: Judelicious Felts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

Tess
title: "Nature's Bounty"
Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 7 inches
Techniques and materials used:. Wet felted with home grown sheep's wool and Mohair locks from Doris one of my Angora goats. The dark brown is Alpaca which was a gift from Inger from the last swap we did. Part way through the felting process I tied some pebbles and marbles in to acheive the bobble look, once felted I removed them and ended up with this result.
date created; 12. 6. 09
Artist: Tess.

zed
Title: Pintupi
Dimensions: 11 x 10.5 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted white merino base, needlefelted top with 38 different animal fibres (thanks to Amajoy and Cytel for fibre swaps and Kaza for some gorgeous handwashed and carded batts )
Date Completed: 14th June 2009
Artists Name:Zed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01
http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/

MTRuth
Title: Shibori Mask
Dimensions: 7"x10.5"
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle felting, wet felting with shibori sewn technique, Icelandic fleece
Date Completed: June 16, 2009
Artist's Name: Ruth
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

Felty felt
Title: Two for the price of one!
Dimensions: 33 cm long by 30cm wide narrowing to 27cm a the top
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted around template. felt rope for handle and needlefelted pattern. Icelandic wool - white inside, two greys mixed for the main colour and the black on the pattern is icelandic. The rest of the pattern is brown Wensleydale.
Date Created: finished needlefelting pattern on 18th June
Artists Name: Debs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shuffs/

Shepherdess
Name: curtain
Fiber: Massum wool (about a 12 inch staple length)
technique: wet felted(3 layers)
dimensions 83x138 cm(32x54inches)
Made: June 09
Artist:Ann McElroy
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

MAY IS ALL ABOUT PRACTICAL FELTING

2009-05-10T20:33:00.004-08:00

This months challenge is about Creating something with a useful purpose

ingermaaike
Title snowstar pillow
Dimensions 33x33cm
Techniques & Materials Used norwegian c1 wool a tiny bit of sewing yarn
Date Created 05-05-2009
http://www.ingermaaike.etsy.com/
http://www.ingermaaike.nl/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingermaaike2/

Mamoon
*Fleur*
12 x 6.5 cm
wet felting / spanish merino wool, silk, crystals
05 05 2009

BTRT
Title: Four Seasons Bowl
Dimensions: roughly 6" in diameter at top
Techniques & Materials Used: completely needlefelted, corrie and merino
Date Created: Fall 2008
Lori Campbell
http://beneaththerowantree.com/

geogirl
Title: Birds for Tea
Dimensions 10 by 13 inches
Techniques & Materials wool bat (unsure of kind of wool) and dyed Romney wool hand wet felted and then with a design needle felted on also with dyed Romney wool and some alpaca wool mix.
Date Created December 2008
Rebecca

Hanabanana
Title: Handbag for Mum
Dimensions: approx 30cm wide
Materials/Technique: Wet felted with a resist; Merino, silk, mohair, cotton embroidery thread, swarovski crystals
Created: Finished on 9th May 2009 - just in time - this was a mothers day gift for my mum.
http://pigletpastures.blogspot.com/

Feltfinland
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/

viltk
Title: Sneak previeuw of the Dress for Meg's Holy Communion
Dimensions: 70 cm long, 36-51 cm wide (aprox 27.56 inch x 14.17- 20 inch)
Materials:ponge silk, white merino wool, blue silk
Technique: Wet felted with a resist
Created: February 27th 2009
http://www.viltalakim.etsy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16449646@N06/sets/72157616439337206/

Tess
Title: Baby Booties with puppies.
Dimensions: OES Booties approx 4 inches, Wheaten terrier booties approx 3 1/2 inches.
Materials: NZ Merino and Leather for soles. (only the OES have the soles sewn on.)
Technique: Wet felted with a resist, and hand stitched leather soles, puppies were needle felted then lightly wet felted to make them more secure.
date created: 2008.

MTRuth
Title: Turtle Coaster
Dimensions: 3"x4.5"
Materials: Mixed breed hand dyed wool, polyester embroidery thread
Technique: Wet felted with sander, free motion machine embroidered (thread sketching)
Date Created: 4/09
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

Fee
Title: Earth-bowl
Dimensions: 5 inches high, 9 inches diameter
Techniques & Materials Used: Bowl and flowers wet felted Merino, little pebbles needle felted
Date Created: May 23/09
Artists Name: Fee

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Sycamore Moon Studios
FromSycamore Moon Studios
It measures 5.5 inches in diameter and 2.5 inches high.
Made with dyed Cottswold and an acrylic eye.
Needle felted and then wet felted.
http://sycamoremoonstudios.etsy.com/
http://feltmusings.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sycamoremoonstudios/

zed
Title: Camera case
Dimensions: 5x 4.25 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: Merino and black and white bamboo top. Made using a flat resist, and wet felted
Date Created: 12th May 2009
Artists Name: zed
http://feltbyzed.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01

SpringtimeDesigns
Title - Dog Collar
Dimensions - 16 inches long x 1.25 inches wide
Techniques & Materials Used - Black, red, and blue layers of wool were wet felted over a vinyl collar.
Top layers of felt were scissored away to reveal the colors underneath.
Date Created - May 2009
Artists Name - Marilyn Jensen

fleurdefibre
"Pearls of Wisdom".
Length of cords: chenille rayon: 109"
Linen cord: 125"
Pearls are between 1" to 2" diam. not quite round.
The pouch is from a felt piece of 13" by 8" approx. Folded in two, one bottom and one top.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fleurdefibre

Felty felt
Title: Henny Penny Tea Cosy
Materials: Just dyed merino wool and two black glass beads for eyes, wet felted resist.
Date created: 5th May

judelicious
Title: Ukukele coveralls
Materials used: One is made with undyed NZ Gotland wool (this was my 'sample' to check out the felting properties of this fibre. The other is a mix of hmmm, alpaca and merino x leicester, i think.
Dimensions: About 25cm x 55cm (flat)
Created: May 09
Judelicious felts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

trixie
Fun hat.
Materials; Grey Finn cross,Grey Alpaca and Hand dyed Perendale wool.
Made over a resist.
Height; 15 cm aprox.
Width; 27
Lenght;31

coraldee
It is the picture on a cushion I am making to sit on when I'm driving to bring me up a little more where I can see over the steering wheel. anyway it is about 15" X 17" varying in depth from about one half inch on front edge to about 3 inches on the back edge. I started it with needle felting then did some wet felting and now am back to needle felting. Polyfil to start with covered with mostly merino and a little corriedale.
http://coraldee.etsy.com/
http://coraldee.artfire.com/
http://corky-coraldee.blogspot.com/

April challenge is Felting with Nature

2009-04-03T02:32:00.008-08:00

Felt with Nature

Combine your felting with a gift from Mother Nature. Earth Day is April 22nd!

Val W
Title: Nature Girl
Dimensions: 10" Tall
Techniques and Materials Used: Needle felted and wet felted with lots of different wools, colors, found objects and beads
Date created: March 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluwoodruffumbrella/

viltk
Title: "Natural highlight"
Dimensions: 15 cm high 12cm weidth
Techniques : Wet felting
Materials Used: White Gotland wool, seed of the Lunaria annua and it's lovelyshiny leaves
Date created: November 2008
Made By: Kim Nijsten
Title: "Natural highlight"
Dimensions: 15 cm high 12cm weidth
Techniques : Wet felting
Materials Used: White Gotland wool, seed of the Lunaria annua and it's lovelyshiny leaves
Date created: November 2008
Made By: Kim Nijsten

zed
Title: Strandline
Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted alpaca base, alpaca needlefelted top, glass and pottery glued to handmade yarn, lightly needlfelted in place and the yarn hidden with more alpaca, shells attached with 'invisible' nylon thread
Date Completed: 4th April 2009

Fee
Title: Spring
Dimensions:13 x 7.5 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: Repurposed wool scarf. Tree needle felted. Only white dried flower is glued, the rest is felted down or tied.
Date Completed: 4th April 2009
Artists Name: Fee

Felty felt
Title: Flotsam and Jetsam
Dimensions: 52cm (at widest point) x 32cm
Techniques & Materials Used: wet felt Merino, silks, driftwood (from Laxey Beach) pebbles (also from Laxey Beach, I know you're not meant to take them but I'm sure 2 won't hurt ) coral beach (from Coral Beaches Isle of Skye) onion net (wouldn't it be lovely if we never found anything like that on any beaches), sea anemone (only joking, that's felt)
Date Created: fibres layed out 2nd April, felted 5th April (distracted by nature - had some serious gardening to do in between)
Debs

gingasquid
This is my Anemone ring. Its wet felted around a Faux Bone and sterling silver base. On the base 'bulb' of felt I added a coat of UV resin and natural rough diamonds. An airplant sits within the tentacles.
http://www.gingasquid.com/
http://gingasquid.blogspot.com/

emerald_2033
Title: Nocturn...depicts two opposums, a groundhog in his burrow, a robins nest... all nestled in a walnut tree.
Diminsions: About 6 inches tall by 5 inches wide at base
Materials and etc.:Wet felted merino/corriedale blend for the base then various wools needle felted into the tree and critters. The birds nest has some bamboo fuzz (our term for the smooth, fibrous stuff my son picks out of bamboo canes) in it. The opoosums have a small amount of our dogs fur in the wool to make it a bit scraggly.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scuttergilly/

jeanm
Title: Natural In Nature
Dimensions: She is 7½" tall
Technique: Needle felted wool amongst some fern
Date: April 12 '09
Artist: Jean Melton
http://www.picturetrail.com/jeanym
http://flickr.com/photos/11734102@N08/3005759752/

MadeByLaura
Title: Robins nest
Dimensions: nest is about 6 inch's across
Technique: Needle felted wool
Date: April 13 2009
Artist: Laura Cole
http://www.madebylaura.etsy.com/
http://made-by-laura.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29509624@N06/

Feltfinland
Title: Natural weapon
Dimensions: Approx.9" long
Technique: Pre yarn wet felted around a stick.
Date: April 2nd 2009
Artist: Amanda Heikkinen
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

coraldee
Title: By the Seashore
started with polyfil quilt batting (thin) cut to app. 5 X 7 which is now about 5 X 8".
covered with various wools that I don't remember the particular kind to represent water and sand. I incorporated two small pieces of 'driftwood' then did an abstract sculpture in the middle of the 2 pieces of driftwood. all needle felted. Not sure if I'll keep it to display my tiny things like the mini whinnie horses
tallest point is about 2 & 1/2 inches
completed on 4-13-2009
by Coralee 'Corky' Stowers
http://coraldee.etsy.com/
http://corky-coraldee.blogspot.com/
http://coraldee.artfire.com/

Fix Design
Title Dreaming of summertime
Dimensions various (1 inch - 2 1/2 inches not including stems)
Techniques & Materials Used felt
Date Created 17th April 09
Artists Name Meredith from Fix design
http://tinyurl.com/dbj6sx

Tess
Title; The Birdies.
Dimensions: Approx 8 inches across.
technique and materials used.
Ribbon for hanging. Wisteria vine from the garden was twisted into wreath shape, wet felted square of various fibres, drew a bird shape and cut out a pattern, embelished with various beads for eyes and accents chosen by Sophie. The nest was wet felted with mixed breed wool by Sophie and she rolled the Mauve merino wool eggs in her little hands till they were egg shaped, I then stitched them into the nest and then onto the wreath as well as the birds.
Date; finished on 18th April 09.
Artist, Tess and Sophie Jean.

north22snow
Title : Wood Elf
14 In tall
Needle felted with my 1st attempt at wet felting for her outfit, I dyed her hair with koolaid and food coloring from some yellowed curly locks
Created April 2009
North22snow

MTRuth
Title Birch Grove
Dimensions 16" x 19"
Techniques & Materials Used Machine and Hand Needle Felting, Background - wool sweater; fibers - Romney, Dorset, Babydoll Sheep, Icelandic, Alpaca/Merino Blend, Angora Rabbit
Date Created April 16, 2009
Artists Name (forum username or real name) Ruth Lane
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/

judelicious
Title: 'Restoration'
Dimensions: 17cm (diametre) x 13cm (height)
Materials & techniques used: Wet felted alpaca, merino and angelina fibres encasing a natural sea sponge. The beauty of creating a vessel out of this gift of nature is that the felt enables the sponge to stand inverted when it otherwise wouldn't.
Date created: Earth Day, 22nd April 2009
Artist: Judelicious Felts

SpringtimeDesigns
Title: Mermaid
Dimensions: 7 inches high
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle felted Alpaca (from MrsG2003), wool, & Angelina fiber over wire armature; a sea rock, sea shells, hand carved wooden sea turtle, wooden base.
Date Created: April 2009
Artists Name: Marilyn Jensen

March Challenge is Going Green

2009-03-11T20:55:00.018-08:00

This months challenge is all about Green

ingermaaike
Title Scaly dragon wrapDimensions 150 cm x 60 cm
Techniques & Materials Used superfine merino, wetfelted

Date Created 02-03-2009
http://www.ingermaaike.etsy.com/%22%3Ehttp://www.ingermaaike.etsy.com/
http://www.ingermaaike.nl/

Feltfinland
Title Leaves
Dimensions 20-25 in length 10-15 cms in width
Techniques & Materials Used Finn wool and raw linen fibres needlefelted with preyarn detail. Whole leaf then wet felted for durability.Date Created February 2009

jeanm
Title: Leprechaun
Size: 5 inches
Materials:pipe cleaner armature, felt body and clothes,polymer clay pipe,hatband,belt,buckles,pot and gold
Date Created: March 2, 2009
Artist: Jean Melton
href="http://www.picturetrail.com/jeanym">http://www.picturetrail.com/jeanym

kittenamy1
Title: Bookworm
Dimensions: 5" X 2 1/2"
Techniques & Materials: needle felt, dyed corriedale over wool batt base
Date Created: 2-28-09
Artists name: Amy

loulou
Title: Butterfly brocheSize:
4''x4''Material: green merino and one green silk hankie
Done: on march the second
Technique: wet and needle fetling the beads were glued

zed
Title: Green
Dimensions: 7.5x8.5"
Techniques & Materials Used: Merino 23's, top layer was wispy swirls, wet felted
Date Completed: 5th March 09
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01

jane
Here's my 'Olive green Golden~throated Song Bird'
Size: 8" tip of beak to tail
Materials: mixed wool roving, glass bead eye, wire armature
Date: March 2009

Tess

Title :LandscapesDimensions: each measures approx 5 x 7 inches.Techniques and materials used: completely Wet felted , with Merino, yarn, silk thread together with my own mixed breed wool and Mohair that I have dyed.Date completed: 6th March 09

coraldee
Title:The Beauty of Spring
Dimensions: 25" strand, widest point: 2&1/8"
Techniques & Materials: needle felted and wet felted Green Merino roving, regular seed beads, 15/0 seed beads, fossil beads, wooden beads, thread, findings
Finished: 3-11-09
http://coraldee.etsy.com/
http://corky-coraldee.blogspot.com/

Val W
Title: Exploring GreenDimensions: Nose to Toes 5"Technical and Material: needle felted, thread joined, C1, merino and onyxDate: March 09

north22snow
Title: Spring Dragonfly
Dimensions: 7 x 12 cm
Techniques & Materials used: Needle felted, Islandic unspun wool for the body, Merino for the wings
Date Created: 3/7/09
Name: North22snow

>mlmtf6
Title - Pod People
Dimensions - 4.5" x 1.5"
Techniques & Materials Used - Needle felted
Date Created - 11/08
Artists Name - Debra Meister
http://www.debrameister.com/

Florcita
Ok, here is mine! It's a wall hanging, It's made with merino and tencel.
Title - "Little Forest"
Dimensions - 56cm x 41 cm
Techniques & Materials Used - Needle felted + wet felted
Date Created - 25/01/09
Artists Name - Mariana Ciliberto
http://www.florcita.eu/
http://www.florcita.etsy.com/

mlmtf6
Title - Irish Rose
Dimensions - 3" x 10"
Techniques & Materials Used - Needle felted - the stem is over wire
Date Created - 03/09
Artists Name - Debra Meister
http://www.debrameister.com/

Whinnie
Title: Legs
Dimensions: Unsure, about 6" for body
Techniqus & Materials used: needle felted-Corriedale wool, fiberfill and pipe cleaner
Date created- Finished Friday the 13, at about 3 am
Artist name: Gemini Stedl

viltk
Title: Spring is in the air!
Dimensions : 165cm x 45 cm = 64.96 inch x 17.72 inch
Techniques & Materials Used : Nunofelting, chiffon silk with merino wool
Date Created: 28th of February 2009
Artists Name : Kim Nijsten
http://www.viltalakim.etsy.com/

Shepherdess
Dimensions : 4 inches plush the tail
Techniques & Materials Used : needle felted domestic 56 wool hand dyed
Date Created: March 2009
Artists Name : Ann McElroy
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

ingermaaike
Dimensions : 30cm X 30cm
Techniques & Materials Used : 16 micron hand dyed merino
Date Created: March 2009
Artists Name : IngerMaaike
http://www.ingermaaike.etsy.com/
http://www.ingermaaike.nl/

funkycreations
Title Lazy Frog
Dimensions : 18cm X 18cm
Techniques & Materials Used : Needle felting/merino
Date Created: November 2008
Artists Name Emma Broughton

gingasquid
This little fella was a bit fiddly as he's only 6cm tall. Its a "Man-Hating Cactus" brooch with plexiglass, green merino wool - wet felted, natural pink freshwater pearl, copper, patina, brass micro-screws and brass eyelets.
http://www.gingasquid.com/
http://gingasquid.blogspot.com/

Shadow
Title - Look after your planet - eco dryer balls
Dimensions - unsure, approx 9" circumference each (I don't have them anymore!)
Techniques & Materials Used - Wet felted fibres, mainly merino, needle felted merino detail.
Date Created - Feb/09
Artists Name - Shadow Gilboa-Way
http://www.hyenacart.com/feltfusion
http://www.feltfusion.etsy.com/

maryluy
Hello not if I can take part, but it(he,she) does a lot of illusion to me name basket measure 24 x 7, material wool, technology(skill) wetted, created in March of 2009por maryluy
http://maryluysevilla.blogspot.com/

Designsbypatti
Title: FLOWER CHILD
Dimensions: flower 7" - face 2 1/2"
Techniques & Materials Used: Core Wool - C1 Batt - Merino Roving
Artist: Patti McAleenan
Date Created: March 16, 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designsbypatti/

Pit Bull Lady Designs
Lightly needle felted shape around finger, wet felted and then added needle felted alien head.
http://www.pitbullladydesigns.etsy.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitbullladydesigns
http://pitbullladydesigns.blogspot.com/

judelicious
Title - Earth: hanging by a thread
Dimensions - 13cm diametre (5")
Materials & Techniques - Earth: 100% recycled felt & pre-felts (mix of merino, alpaca, mashum & silk) wet & needle-felted. Talons: Wet felted merino over wire.
Date Created - March 09 (took a week to dry!)
Artist - Judelicious Felts
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

amajoy
Title - Mr. Alligator
Dimensions - 7 or so inches long
Materials & Techniques - Core wool covered with hand dyed green romney wool (washed & dyed by me) along with some NZ wool for the yellow on the tummy, the dark green back, Eyes, & mouth/teeth.
Date Created - August 3rd 2009
Artist - Amanda Lopez

Sycamore Moon Studios
The Mermaid Egg
March 2009
Wetfelting (mermaid and egg) and Needlefelting (base, seaweed, starfish)
Corriedale, Cotswold, Merino and Mohair
Base: 7"x2.5"x3" Mermaid 3"
Created by Theresa Whitt Whitmore at Sycamore Moon Studios
http://sycamoremoonstudios.etsy.com/
http://feltmusings.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sycamoremoonstudios/

kenleighacres
Title: Spring is Coming pillow
Dimensions: 12" x 12"
Techniques: Wet felted with corriedale and needle felted flowers with merino.
Date: 3/22/09
Artisit: Shannon Phifer
http://www.kenleigh-acres.com/
http://www.kenleighacres.wordpress.com/

SpringtimeDesigns
Title: Two Mini Scarves - or -
(Subtitle) "It's Not Easy, Being Green"
Dimensions: 2.5" x 18" each
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet (nuno) felted wool over silk chiffon
Date Created: Feb. 2009
Artists Name: Marilyn Jensen

Pam de Groot
Title - Leaf hat
Dimensions - Hat sized
Techniques & Materials Used - Wet felted over a resist. Merino wool
Date Created - 29th march 09
Artists Name - Pam de Groot
http://pamdegroot.blogspot.com/

BPier12
Title: Spring Vessel
Dimensions: 8" h x 3 1/2 " w
Techniques & Materials Used: Wet felted merino wool, silk throwster's waste and dyed Border Leicester locks around a resist
Date Created: March 29, 2009
Artist's Name: Beth Pierson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bethpier

novembersfyre
Title: Sping in Bloom
Dimensions: 35mm high, 21 mm wide, 10mm deep
Techniques & Materials Used: Needlefelted from Merino and Targhee wool
Date Created: 03/30/2009
Mary Beth Callaghan
http://www.novembersfyrestudio.blogspot.com/

SelkieSong
Title / Green Man
Dimensions 14''x 14''
Techniques & Materials Used / 100% needle felted wool
Date Created / March 2009
Artist / Rain Hays

BEAUTIFUL ART WORK ARRIVING FOR OUR BUSH FIRE FUNDRAISER

2009-03-04T22:14:00.013-09:00

More stunning arrivals. Thankyou so much Pat and Christine your all amazing

FJ Holden Tapestry made by my Dad and donated to us for our fundraiser, Thanks Dad its awesome.

More Stunning arrivals

Thankyou so much Beth, Cara & Melissa from MI USA , i love all your work and your help is so very much appreciated

Thankyou so much Ron from Melbourne AU, your Oil Paintings are stunning and a very generous donation.

Wow thankyou so much Sarah, Ruth and Felicity for you very generous donations, your help and support is so much appreciated.

Like everyday lately this is an OMG WOW day, Thankyou so much, Sara, Els and Kathy, truly amazing Art Work and extremely generous Donation. I'm Speachless.
Detailed information will be on my blog at http://www.karensfeltwork.blogspot.com/

Thankyou so much, Heike, Amanda and Evelyn for your Stunning Art Work, This is all so Beautiful i know our Sale is going to be Fantastic

Todays Arrivals, Thankyou so much, Melissa, Susanna, Libby, Val and Zed again.
Your all so generous, this puts our tally in the 70's so that is Fantastic.

Some of the amazing Art Work being donated for our Fundraiser. All so stunningly Beautiful

Thankyou so much for your very kind and generous donation, Pam, Kay, Zed & Cytel

Thankyou so much Marilou

Thankyou so much, Deb, Nancy & Donna

Thankyou so much Inger

Thankyou so much Wendy

More Amazing Donations, Thankyou so much, Gunilla, Tess and Corky, We really appreciate your help and support. These are truly amazing.

I am in absolute Awe of everyone's work, being able to see it up close and personal is making me ooooooo and rrrrrrrrrr so much. Your all so generous and i appreciate this so much

Thankyou, there are more pictures of individual works on my blog to try to keep everyone updated as much as possible. And i will add groups of photo's here as they come in.

http://www.karensfeltworks.blogspot.com/

Thankyou again.
karen

Artist Offerings Needed for Australian Bushfire Relief

2009-02-20T00:09:00.004-09:00

A State on Fire
a message from Felting Forum member, judelicious.

Each summer February looms before Victorians as 'bushfire season'. But of course life goes on as usual, it has to. This year however, life has not gone on as normal. A firestorm of more than 30 fires across Victoria has marked Feb 2009 as a black period of Australia's history, racing over hilltops and houses in seconds and devastating whole towns in minutes.

10 days on and i feel incredibly fortunate to be continually receiving good news of the survival of close friends and relatives in affected areas. But the smoke that still hangs over us like a fog ever-reminds me of those who are not able to say this today, of the parents who have lost sons and daughters, the children who have lost their dads, those who have lost partners and life-long friends, animals. livelihood, homes and businesses as fires ripped indiscriminately across our lands.

The issues that are unfolding from this disaster are so vast and complex. I realise it can be difficult to understand when one may be so far removed from it, and to remember these things when they start to disappear from the headlines (especially given thatso many areas around the world are inflicted by natural disasters daily).But it will take months, even years to rebuild these shattered lives and communities, and for Victoria to overcome this incredible attack on our increasingly threatened & ever-precious water supply.

Please do not forget.

Thanks, Jude - that was beautiful! We have many members of our forum who's lives have been somehow affected by this disaster. Kaza, our dear forum member, Kaza, has been working hard in conjunction with the Red Cross to organize an art auction during the height of tourist season in her community in Victoria.

Our collective compassion and creative energy of our talented members is a very powerful thing and I'm asking all forum members to donate at least one felted art item to help make a difference with the recovery; to help rebuild shattered lives.

Please Visit Karen's Blog for the details. http://www.karensfeltworks.blogspot.com/

Or Mail your donations to:

Karen Erickson
C/O Artist's Offering Fundraiser
P.O.Box 308
Cowes
Victoria, Australia 3922

Follow this link for tags to identify your donation(s) - adding a price is optional

Lets sound our voices on our social networks! Spread the word and lets show the world we care!

February Felting Challenge - Seeing Red!

2009-02-03T16:34:00.074-09:00

Red is a powerful color - and shades of red are gorgeous! Our members are sure to express themselves with red in many amazing ways!

feltfieltrofilc
Title - Swirl Necklace
Dimensions - length (not a circumference) 43, the biggest swirl 8 cm
Techniques & Materials Used - 100% wool yarn, commercially dyed, needlefelted on wool and cotton muslin backing
Date Created - 12/12/08
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25830834@N07/
http://picasaweb.google.com/feltfieltrofilc

ewesyourimagination
Title: Martian Love Bug
Dimensions: 6" tall x 3" wide
Techniques & Materials Used: Needlefelted wool around pipe cleaner arms and legs, and flowers with wet felted stems
Date Created: 1/10/09
Artist Name: Morgan (ewes)
My Ewes Your Imagination Etsy Shop
My Flickr Photos
My Shiny New Blog

TheFeltedChicken
TITLE: Crab
DIMENSIONS: 8" wide x 6" long x 2" tall
TECHNIQUE: Needle Felted, dyed with Kool-Aid, then shaded
DATE: January 26, 2009
NAME: Chrissy a.k.a. The FeltedChicken
LINKS: Documented in this tutorial on how to dye with Kool-Aid
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cprush13/sets/72157613068211277/
shop: http://www.feltedchicken.etsy.com/
blog: http://feltedchicken.blogspot.com/
email: FeltedChicken@live.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cprush13/

leicesterazr
Title: Hat and booties
Dimensions: Booties are about 4 inches long, and the hat is about seven inches wide, but i didnt really measure them...
I wet felted black Border Leicester wool for the inside two layers, then red Border Leicester for the outside around resists. I did a blanket stich embroydery type around the edges.
Date: January 09
www.freewebs.com/freedom_farm

mlmtf6
I don't knowif there's a special format that I have to use... But I thought I would post this little guy. He's magnet I made for a friend but he is is no longer among us... A cat got to him

FlorcitaTitle: Cherry Red wooly bag
Dimensions:
Techniques & Materials Used: wet felted with a resist. Merino wool and locks
Date Created: end of Jan 2009
My website: http://www.florcita.eu/
My shops:
http://en.dawanda.com/user/Florcita
http://www.florcita.etsy.com/
http://www.florcitasart.blogspot.com/

Louie Girl

Title: I Give You My Heart - A Grandmother's Love for her Grandchild
Dimensions: 2" x 6"
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle Felt wool
Date Created: 1/13/09

jeanm
Title: Heart Felt
Size: 5" x 5"
Needle felted
Date Created: 2/2/09

jane
Every Beat of my Heart
... inspired by Gladys Knight and the Pips song
size: bag 14"X9" handle 30"
material: 99+% wool Little bit of pink silk added to flap edge was lost into felting
created: Feb '09

gunillarehn
Title Dalahorse
Dimensions 7" x 6" inches (18 x 15 cm)
Techniques & Materials Used Needelfelted of finewool over a wire armature
Date Created Feb 05 2009
Artist Gunilla Rehn Sweden
Please visit my website http://ullochkrull.se.nu/
My Flickr Photo Gallery http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltangel/
About Dalarna http://tinyurl.com/d565xn

Designsbypatti
Title: Wings of Love
Dimensions: 8” x 20”
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle Felted /Core wool / C-1 Batt Created on craft felt and will be framed in a shadow box
Date Created: February 4, 2009

Artists Name: Patti McAleenan
Optional Link: coming soon… http://www.dreamfelt.com/

tinafeltmaker
Heart Table Mat
16 by 24
created Oct 2007
wool

Tess
Title:....."Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow."
Dimension........15 x 13 inches.
Technique:........Wet felted Merino & silk fibre, Nuno felted onto silk base. Embelished with various beads, gold thread and metal accents.
Date Created: 5.2.09.
Artist: Tess

Florcita
Title: Hippie Butterfly
Dimensions: 23x30cm
Techniques & Materials Used: wet felted with resist, quilted and embellished with seed beads, mirrors and mothe rof pearl beads.
Date Created: Feb 8th, 2009
My website: www.florcita.eu
My shops:
http://en.dawanda.com/user/Florcita
www.florcita.etsy.com
My blog:
www.florcitasart.blogspot.com

Jazicat
Title: Sea of Love
Dimensions: 7.5 inches by 6 inches
Materials and Techniques: Natural black Jacobs, top combed red Cotswold, blue and green hand dyed yearling and lamb border leicester locks, recycled silk yarn and a little angelina for the bubbles. The whole piece was needle felted.
Date Completed: 2/7/09
Jessica Rusake

coraldee
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:21 pm
Posts: 179 Title: The REd Planet or Martian Landscape
Size: app 6" X 8"
Needle Felted with mostly Merino on a wire hanger
Reached this point with it Feb 8, 2009
http://Coraldee.etsy.com
http://corky-coraldee.blogspot.com/

MTRuth
Title: I Give You My Heart
Size: 5x7 card
Machine needle felted, wet felted, machine stitched
Mixed Breed wool, Wensleydale locks, angelina, rayon thread
completed 2/8/09
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
http://www.purplepomegranate.com/

Cytel
Wool Mushroom 5-6" tallwet feltwool, mettallic tassel, vintage trim chopped up, string, oak and wire
Cytel's Art on Flicker

Val W
Title: Red Cloth
Dimensions: Aprox 6"
Technique and Materials Used: C1, Merino and Misc. core batt - Needle felted
Date Created: Feb 10

ingermaaike
Title Chesire cat hanging aboutDimensions 30x30 cmTechniques & Materials Used needle and wet felting, all kinds of wool and some silkDate Created 13-02-09
http://www.ingermaaike.nl/http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingermaaike2/http:/
/www.flickr.com/photos/ingermaaike2/

edenwool
Title: Lovely Family
Dimensions: from 1" to 2.5" tall
Techniques & Materials Used: Merino Wool and Silk, needle felting
Date Created: January 2009
Artists Name : Edenwool

Pam de Groot
"Heartfelt Headress"
Merino wool, nuno felted OP shop scarf and hand sewn beads
Head sized.
Made on a flat resist
Created Nov 08
http://pamdegroot.blogspot.com/

TheFeltedChicken
Black Widow Spider
4" long (with legs) x 4" wide (with legs) x 4" tall
Needle Felted Wool w/ Glued Wire Legs
February 10, 2009
Chrissy P - aka FeltedChicken
http://www.feltedchicken.etsy.com/
http://feltedchicken.blogspot.com/

zed
Title Love Lies Bleeding
Dimensions 8 x 5 inches
Techniques & Materials Used Wet felted background with needle felted plant
Date Completed 14th February 2009

amajoy
Title: Mouse Love
Dimensions: 5x2x2
Techniques & Materials Used: Core Fiber, NZ roving, wire in the tail, beads, & fabric paint
Date Completed: 15th February 2009
Artists Name Amanda Lopez

danieliausmama
Title :Three poppies
Dimentions:about 3.5 to 4 inches in diameter(each)
Materials: merino wool roving(mostly merino I should say)
Date: February 16th, 2009
Artist:Daiva Houston
http://feltingfun.blogspot.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5365187

Feltfinland
Title 'Literally red'
Dimensions 64x22 cms
Techniques & Materials Used - Finn/Falkland wool prefelt base, Red Angora yarn used to needle felt the lettering. The piece was then all wet felted to completion.
Date Created 10-12. 02. 2009
http://www.feltfinland.com/
http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

rjsnitz
Needle Felted/Machine Embroidered purses
Red and pink wool roving used (not sure of type, purchased from Try Our Designs)
Black wool fabric that I felted myself for the purses, lined in black fleece fabric. Purse design of my own creation.
Roxanne Schnitzler

Sycamore Moon Studios
Here is red...a quiet red, perhaps, but still red. *grin*
http://sycamoremoonstudios.etsy.com/
http://feltmusings.blogspot.com/

tootie
This little red-attired, needle-felted lady is Irene.
Born October 25, 2008, she stands a diminutive 9 1/2" tall
With the exception of her curly locks and the core fiber used as a foundation for her main body, Irene is a Border Leicester wool babe

SpringtimeDesigns
Title: Irish Red & White Setter
Dimensions: 3 inches high; 5 inches long
Techniques & Materials Used: Needle felted with wool & alpaca; polymer clay eyes & nose
Date Created: February 2009
Artists Name: Marilyn Jensen

Kaza
Wet Felted Bass of Raw Merino
Needle Felted Background of my blended carded batts
My yarns needle felted on
Measuring 11inch by 9inch
http://www.karensfeltworks.blogspot.com/

novembersfyre
Title: Red Rover
Dimensions: 3.5" x 2"
Techniques & Materials Used: Sculptural needle felting using corriedale roving.
Date Created: 02/26/2009
http://novembersfyrestudio.blogspot.com/

trixie
Here we go. My entry for the february challenge is a scarf made of red merino, mixed with golden baboo fibre and sparkly red angelina. It measures about 7 inches by 68 and is very soft and has a beautiful drape.

judelicious
Framed dimensions: 68 x 118cm (27 x 46.5")
Felt dimensions: 41 x 90cm (16 x 35.5")
Combined wet and needle felted tapestry in australian merinos and silk
Created Jan - Feb 2009
by Judelicious felts

narkeymarkey
title: a hug for my neck
dimensions: approx. drop of 24cm and the main bead is about 3cm x 4cm
techniques and materials: rolled, wet felted cane which i sliced and re-felted, merino wool
date: november 2008
name: tracy markey
http://www.narkeymarkeysblog.blogspot.com/

jhay802
Title: "Red Rabbit Rage"
Created: February 2009
Dimensions: 10''X8''X7''
Technique: Dry Felting and baked clay for the teeth
Artist Name: Jacqueline Hay

Pit Bull Lady Designs
Title: Sparky II
Description: Blood Red Bay Quarter Horse owned by a Texas artist, Reining bloodlines being trained for Dressage & trail
Dimensions:2" x 2 1/2"
techniques and materials: needle felted sculpture out of merino, corriedale & llama
date: feb 2009
name: Barbara Wright
http://pitbullladydesigns.blogspot.com/
http://www.pitbullladydesigns.etsy.com/

January Felting Challenge - The Color Blue

2009-01-17T13:19:00.013-09:00

January challenges our Felting Forum members to explore the many feelings of the color blue. We have so many wonderful and creative interpretations.

Enjoy the spectacular Blues!

Tess
Alpaca Cria.
3 1/2 x 3 1/2
Merino, silks, Alpaca fibre genuine turquoise beads.
wet and needlefelted.
2/1/09
Tess Mallett (asset crafts)

Cytel
Under the deep blue ocean
about 7"x9"
wool, silk, polyester flash
Completed Jan 3rd 2009
artist: Cytel Snyder
wetfelted background, with needlefelted foreground.
Visit me on Flickr :
Cytel's Art
Visit my Etsy Shop:
Oak Forest Art Works

Ona
Title: Tropical Trial and Error
Dimensions: approx. 6.5" diam.
Techniques & Materials Used: wetfelted with merino
Date Created: jan 5th
Made by: Ona Peeters

ingermaaike
Title: Blue NE (cklace-sca) RF
Dimensions: 160cm long
Techniques & Materials Used: merino wool
Date Created: 07-01-09
http://www.ingermaaike.etsy.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingermaaike2/
http://www.ingermaaike.nl

MTRuth - Professional Member
Blue Moon
5"x8.5"
Machine Needle felted and wet felted; Hand dyed wool, metallic paint
01/10/09
Ruth Lane
http://ruthsfiberphotos.blogspot.com/
www.purplepomegranate.com

Pam de Groot
"Hat with Blue Flowers."
Hat sized
Merino wool with fabric flowers felted in.
Wet felted hat made on a resist with fabric additions and some beading.
Made 8/1/09
http://pamdegroot.blogspot.com/

Cine
Title: BlueFly
Dimensions: Measures 7.5" across 4.25" tall & 4.25" wide
Techniques and Materials used: Blue needle-felted (100% wool) butterfly with black needle-felted (100% wool) detailing on wire (pipe-cleaner) armature.
Date Completed: Jan 13, 2009
Artist: Cine

danieliausmama
Daiva Houston
Tree and Birds tapestry
Created beginning of January, 2009
It is about 14 by 11 inches
I used mostly Merino wool, wet and needle felting
http://feltingfun.blogspot.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5365187
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltingme/

zed
Title: Blue Dog
Dimensions: 5.5x 7.25 inches
Techniques & Materials Used : Needlefelted with merino 64's on craft felt
Date completed: 14th January 2009
Artist: Zed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01

Shepherdess
Title: Business card holder
Size: 3.5"x4.5"
Materials: mixed breed colour blend wool, silk
Technique: wet felted bag, needle felt picture, hand spun silk
Date completed: January 15, 2009
Artist: Ann McElroy
Shepherds' Spring Farm
North Gower, Ontario, Canada
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

edenwool
Scarlette Blue Horizon.
51.5 cm ( 20.2" ) x 18 cm ( 7" ). The measurement between snaps is 35 cm ( 13.8" ).
Wet felting. Merino wool, silk, vintage buttons, snaps Fall 2008.
Made by Edenwool in Canada.
http://www.jrjr.etsy.com
www.edenwool.com

TheFeltedChicken
Love Bird w/ Heart Balloon
6" tall, 4" long, 2 1/2" wide
Needle Felted - Corriedale wool w/ wire
January 14, 2009
FeltedChicken
check out my Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/cprush13/
read my blog: http://feltedchicken.blogspot.com
look at my work: www.feltedchicken.etsy.com
email me: FeltedChicken@live.com

judelicious
30 x 35cm (12x14;)
Combined wet and needle felted tapestry with wet felted balls in australian merinos
Created Jan 7-17th 2009
by Judelicious felts

Go on! Just 'av a go!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judeliciousfelts/

Val W
Mixed wool core c/w C1 flesh, unknown taupe fiber accent, Blue C1, and a unknown heather accent, all needle and dry felted, 13" seated.

Title: Turquoise Fantasy
Dimensions: App. 4" X 7"
Techniques & materials: needle felting : wool, wire, glue
Date Created: 1-17-09

coraldee
A Summer Day
4 1/2" high x 3 1/2" wide at the top.
Made of wool by needle felting. finished 1-20-09
http://Coraldee.etsy.com
http://Corky-Coraldee.blogspot.com

jeanm - Supporting Member
Title:Alpaca Barack "created him today while watching our new president get inaugurated"
Dimensions: 3X5 inches
Technique & materials: Needlefelted...all wool, no wire
Date Created: January 20, 2009
Artist: Jean Melton
http://www.PictureTrail.com/jeanym
http://flickr.com/photos/11734102@N08/3005759752/

Feltfinland
Title Blue Prefelt
Dimensions 56x27 cms
Techniques & Materials Used Wet felted(only to prefelt) merino wool
Date Created 160109

Feltfinland
Title In the wind
Dimensions 36x45 cms
Techniques & Materials Used Navy finn wool mix background , prefelt leaf shapes - wet felted
Date Created 28.01.09

Artists Name Amanda
My website - www.feltfinland.com
My flickr photos - www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
My blog - http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

MrsG2003
13 x 11
Wet Felted
black alpaca fleece, saphire blue alpaca fleece, and added the dyed mohair locks.

SpringtimeDesigns
Title: Kerry Blue Terrier
Dimensions: 4.5" high x 5.5" long
Techniques & Materials Used: Chenille stem armature; Needle felted natural colored Border Leicester/Corriedale/Cheviot cross wool over a Romney wool core for the body; natural black Alpaca for the beard & eyebrows; Glass eyes & Nose
Date Created: January 2009
Artist: Marilyn Jensen

novembersfyre
Title: Colorado Sky Goddess Spirit Doll
Dimensions: 6" inches by 4" inches (not including locks)
Techniques & Materials Used: She was needle felted from Merino with a little bit of Angelina. The locks are Romney lamb.
Date Created: January 21, 2009

Artists Name: Mary Beth Laire Callaghan (Novembersfyre)
http://www.novembersfyre.com

Tammy
Title: "Peacock's Surroundings"
Dimensions: 7" X 9" X .25"
Techniques & Materials Used: Single needle felted on wet felted background using 100% NZ Corriedale wool.
Date Created: 01-24-09
Artists Name: Tammy T. Long
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hookandpoke/

RitaBlocksom
blue clutch bag.
royal blue prefelt from Back to Back Alpaca and a variety of rovings including alpaca and merino.

feltalive - Community Partner
Li'l Janice Joplin
by Kay Petal
01/25/09
11" tall
Needle Felted Wool
Norwegian C1 over core wool
Hair - Cotswold and Mohair Locks
Felt Alive Wool Sculptures
Learn How to Felt Alive!!
My Felt Alive Flickr Photo Gallery
My Felt Alive YouTube Channel

Nicola Brown
Swirls of blue'
120mm high X 160mm diameter.
wet felted from merino and mulberry silk.
Monday 26th January
Artist: Nicola Brown
ollow the activities of a rural feltmaker by checking out http://www.clasheen.wordpress.com

Kaza - Professional Member
Sour Grapes
Sept 2008
Her body(so to speak) is made from Alpaca, Her shawl is a blend of Alpaca /merino and her hair is merino with a blend of silk. She stands 7 inch high and she's still very cranky.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felting_fever/
Kaza's Blog

gunillarehn
Title: EYE glasses case
Dimensions: approx. 3 x 6,5 inches
Techniques & Materials Used: case wetfelted of finewool and eyes needlefelted
Date Created: Jan 27th 2009
Made by: Gunilla Rehn Sweden
http://ullochkrull.se.nu/
My Flickr Photo Gallery
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltangel/

CalicoCallie
Title: Santa Fe Sunset
Dimensions: pouch 4" x 4"
Technique: wet felt/resist, needlefelt, beading
Date: 01/06/09

kenleighacres
'Tweeter'
needle felted using merino top, shetland wool, and alpaca.
Dimensions are 2" x 3"
Date made - 1/10/09
Artist - Shannon Phifer (kenleighacres)
www.kenleigh-acres.com
www.kenleighacres.wordpress.com

teriann - Professional Member
Title: Homeward Bound
Dimensions: 7 x 8
Technique: Needle Felted Alpaca Figures with Wet Felted Wool Clothes and saddle
Date: 01/28/09

teriann - Professional Member
Title: Memory of Homer
Dimension: 4 1/2 x 5
Technique: Needle Felted Alpaca Schnauzer with Wet Felted Wool Coat.
Date: 01/28/09
http://www.tericanepa.com

viltk
Title: Blue heart...
Dimensions: weidth 9cm x hight 9 cm = 3.5 inches x 3.5 inch Thickness: 3cm =1.2 inch
Technique: Wet felted with merino fleece and wool
Date: 29 th of January 2009
My Shop: www.viltalakim.etsy.com

Jazicat
Title: Forget Mey Not... You Are Missed
Dimensions: 7" by 4"
Techinique: Petals and Root wet felted. Remaining needle felted.
Materials: Commericial corriedale and merino, border leceister locks, glass seed beads and crystal beads.
Date Completed: January 30, 2009

Jessica

That's it!! That sure didn't leave me feeling blue. FABULOUS ENTRIES Everyone!!!

Stay tuned for February's challenge as we explore the color RED!

December Felting Challenge Winter Wonderland!

2008-12-21T18:54:00.006-09:00

I can't even begin to keep with all of the amazing creations being posted to the Felting and Needle Felting Forum this month. Creativity abounds during the holiday season! So, this month, our members were challenged to create a winter wonderland in felt. And remember, this is an international community and it is not snowy winter in all parts of the world!

Kaza
Professional Member
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felting_fever/
Kaza's Blog

chrissy_p
www.cprusha.com
cprush13@hotmail.com

ellenhuls
www.kitchycharacters.com

Sycamore Moon Studios

Cytel
Visit me on Flickr :
Cytel's Art
Visit my Etsy Shop:
Oak Forest Art Works

Dee

Shepherdess
Shepherds' Spring Farm
North Gower, Ontario, Canada
http://www.shepherdsspringfarm.ca/

xoxcards
http://www.xoxcards.etsy.com
http://www.7bucks.etsy.com

jeanm
Supporting Member

Feltfinland
My website - www.feltfinland.com
My flickr photos - www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
My blog - http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

jane

danieliausmama

Nicola Brown
www.clasheen.wordpress.com

coraldee
http://tinyurl.com/45hsxj
http://tinyurl.com/3mzrx3
http://tinyurl.com/4qcao5

patdixie
Supporting Member

teriann
Professional Member

leicesterazr
http://www.freewebs.com/freedom_farm

gunillarehn
Please visit my website http://ullochkrull.se.nu/
Now also available in English
My Flickr Photo Gallery
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltangel/

zed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zedster01

gourmet felted
www.gfelted.etsy.com
www.gourmetfelted.wordpress.com
gfelted@verizon.net

Great Entries Everyone! Thanks for Playing!!!

Holiday Cheer from the Felting Forum!

2008-12-10T09:17:00.000-09:00

Besides the winter themed entries for our challenge, and our virtual Holiday Exchange, the forum is just loaded with the most creative Holiday themed felted art. Enjoy the Parade!

Feltfinland
My website - www.feltfinland.com
My flickr photos - www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/
My blog - http://feltfinland.blogspot.com/

Kaza
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felting_fever/
Kaza's Blog

viltk
My Shop: www.viltalakim.etsy.com

feltalive
Felt Alive Wool Sculptures
Learn How to Felt Alive!!
My Felt Alive Flickr Photo Gallery
My Felt Alive YouTube Channel

ellenhuls
www.kitchycharacters.com

teriann
http://www.tericanepa.com

barby303
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270314881181&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=017

racheh

gunillarehn
Please visit my website http://ullochkrull.se.nu/
Now also available in English
My Flickr Photo Gallery
http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltangel/

wanderinon

Hayley_a
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28933818@N02/

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200277706298

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200276260048

artbyrjandreae

DraigAthar
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190272506484
Visit my online portfolio!

Creations by Beth
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=350128652006&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=022
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My blog! http://thecrochetette.blogspot.com/
My shop! http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5521322

munchycrunchy

There are many more fantastic holiday creations on the forum. If I missed yours and you want it on the blog, let me know and I'll be happy to add it!

Warm Holiday Wishes Everyone!!!