Monday, 29 July 2013
Still playing
I'm starting to collect a list of simple craft ideas for young people to have fun with. At the moment I'm concentrating on handmade felt but would welcome any other suggestions.
Yesterday I experimented with felt purses and made some more beads which are now drying out...just thought, maybe phone cases may be an option. I'm really looking for anything that involves fabric/fibre etc and hopefully exercising my embroidery skills which are getting very rusty these days.
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Love those beads and bags!
Have you seen Zenitude's recent blog posts? She is doing some amazing things with felting and embroidery. I had no idea you could do so much with a handful of fluff and a little floss.
you are doing great so far. if you want to have a smoother look to the bags you can save them with a regular cheap disposable razor
Thanks both of you for your comments, its good to get back to something other than spinning for a while :-)
Hi, Yesterday I watched your video showing how to make a lidded box with a felting machine. A few days ago I got myself an Embellisher so I've started making a box today. Then came looking for a blog or site for you to say thanks. You made it look like so much fun and it is. Thanks!
thanks :-) I made the vid a few years ago when I was at bome with a badly broken arm. You can see that I still have a plaster cast on in the film. Have fun with your embellisher, at the moment I'm trying to put together some workshops for young people using fibre/textiles so its wet felting that I'm looking at for the time being xx
Have fun when you get the kids together to do some wet felting. I started out felting that way. The kids should enjoy the mooshiness. I mostly needle felt by hand these days unless I use my washing machine to felt sweaters I find at the thrifts. (Putting them in mesh bags to save the house pipes from clogging!) Anyhow, it's fun to toss in a big sweater and watch it come out of the process small enough for dolls to wear. Now I want to dig some of them out and see how the machine likes them.
Well, enough blather from me. All the best and thanks again! My first felted box came out a little lopsided but I love it the most.
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