felting anyone.....

A friend sent me this website

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Els

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Els van Dam
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This library fan is loves the Library Coat.

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The Jonathan Lady

Oh, wow!

Higs, Katherine

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Katherine

She certainly does detailed work! Wow.

Shelagh

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Shillelagh

Shelagh, my daughter arrived today from Toronto. When I showed her a project I am working on at the moment, felted poodle hair, she told me that right now felted articles are in Mam. I have to smile, having done it for year and years, but heads go up when it is picked up by the fashion industry.

Well off to do some more embroidery on my felted piece. I am using the lovely photographs in the last National Geigraphic for inspiration. The blue and green Octopus one.

Els

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Els van Dam

Els, was the felting actually done from just poodle hair? Will the finished product be wearable or displayable?

I will have to look for this National Geographic. I've been hearing on the radio that Dan Buettner (sp?), who is a Minnesota adventurer, has a featured article in the most recent NG.

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The Jonathan Lady

In article , "The Jonathan Lady" wrote:

Hello Jan,

Indeed I did use pure or only Noah's dog hair for the felting. I had tried Otto's sander last fall to see if indeed I could make it work. He let me do this, but just barely....LOL So I bought my own little sander for $9.00 and used it on getting the piece better felted. It did work very well. The piece became a lot smaller. Because it still smelled very much like a smelly dog. I put it in a big dye pot of sudsy water and boiled it for a while, that helped the felting as well as got rid of the smell. I than thought, while I had the pot going of putting in some dye and dyed the whole thing a lovely ocean green. That same day when I did my grocery shopping a picked up the new National Geographic and saw this fantastic picture of an Octopus. Now that the piece is nearly dry, I will get my embroidery threads and beads out and will shape it in a bowl or basket shape stitching it with fancy stitches and adding the beads. A fun piece that sort of has a life of it's own. Felting lends itself very well for this kind of adventure. I have made another basker from felted strips, that I wove together with at the bottom one of the circles I teach kids to make with the use of a margarine lid, some sudsy soap in an recycled spray bottle, a bit of fleece left over from a spinning project, with the use of a large storage container lid and a car matt. You fluff the fleece into a large cloud. Shape it into the margarine lid. Spray it with the soapy water. Turn the lid upside down and tuck in the bits of fleece sticking out. Put your dry hand firmly on top of the margarine lid and while pusing hard, make circular movement to the count of 50. Turn your fleece ciircle over and do the same with the other side. Rince and dry and you have the start of a little basket or little pouch or bag. Naturally you can add a nice kumihimo braid to it, or some beads or dry felting. It is a great start to more felting adventures.

You are correct JanDan Buettner has an article on New Wrinkles of Aging, in the latest N G

Els

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