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Saras Texture Crafts Now just where to start!

Been feeling like I've been less creative recently, especially after last week's mamoth postings about things I made a few months ago... not had the time to concerntrate on anything new, but I did buy this polyformed base, on a rare day out with my mum and my nan. We went up to a place called HobbyCraft with the full intention to just look around... yeah right! Needless to say many shopping baskets later I hatched a plan for… Continue

Added by Saras Texture Crafts on 18 November 2008 at 3:59pm — No Comments

lizet Silence, a felt wall panel

SILENCE This work is a sunset at the sea with a few coconut palms in the foreground. I felted this wall panel to depict the silence and peace on a quiet evening on the beach with the only sound the waves and the wind in the palm leaves. The wool has been dyed with onion skins and yellow cosmos flowers, both mordanted with alum and some have been treated afterwards with soda or iron water (rusted nails in water) or a combination of the 2 methods to give a range of different yellows, oranges and… Continue

Added by lizet on 18 November 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Saras Texture Crafts Ally Pally Classes

It was that time again, my favourite London Craft Show had come around so quick! I was quite nervous this time though, as… Continue

Added by Saras Texture Crafts on 4 November 2008 at 11:22am — 1 Comment

Dorie van Dijk tea and rust

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Added by Dorie van Dijk on 14 October 2008 at 10:30pm — 5 Comments

Phaedra Alaya in Taos

Can I just share how thrilled I was to meet an original, star in felting world last weekend in Taos?! My fiber fanatic friend and I were attending the Taos Wool Festival which was, as ever fabulous and filled with artists, farmers, spinners and mad women like ourselves. After the first day of wandering, buying up wool and skeins of yummy hand-dyed goodies, we got a little tipsy at lunch and wandered over the street to a spot above a fiber arts store. As we ascended the steps, following the sight… Continue

Added by Phaedra on 9 October 2008 at 8:41pm — 3 Comments

yvette cals DO'NT SEARCH YOU'LL FIND (PICASSO)

FELTING FOR ME IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS, IF I START WITH A PLAN IT ALWAYS TURNS OUT TO BE DIFFERENT. THAT IS WHY I CAN'T WORK IN COMMISSION. I MADE ONCE THE DECISSION WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU RECOGNISE IT? Continue

Added by yvette cals on 9 October 2008 at 11:22am — No Comments

yvette cals they have so much to tell us...

THE LANGUAGE OF THE HEART, OF THE SOUL, IS THE LANGUAGE OF COMMUNICATION WITH ALL THAT IS. TOF, MY DOG IS 9 YEARS TODAY, so no felt picture. Continue

Added by yvette cals on 2 October 2008 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

yvette cals EKCHART TOLLE

BE WHAT YOU ALREADY ARE Continue

Added by yvette cals on 1 October 2008 at 1:34pm — 4 Comments

Saras Texture Crafts I made my first felt tutorial video!

Yay, here it is... hope you find it useful! Continue

Added by Saras Texture Crafts on 1 October 2008 at 9:30am — 5 Comments

Dorie van Dijk teatime

Yesterday I have been making a lot of tea - not for drinking, but to use for natural dyeing. This is the recipy - use 8 to10 tea bags or 200g of tea leaves in a pan with 500 ml of water, bring to boil and then simmer for 15 minutes. Allow to cool. Strain the teawater, put in a pan wit… Continue

Added by Dorie van Dijk on 26 September 2008 at 4:52pm — 4 Comments

Saras Texture Crafts Machine Embellishing Project is Finished!

Do you remember my tutorial, Machine Embellishing – How to use your Embellisher? Well today I am posting the finished project, so you can see how you could take a machine embellished fabric and turn it into a product... I may even make it my next competition prize! … Continue

Added by Saras Texture Crafts on 24 September 2008 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

DebsThreads Leeds Folk Festival - Saturday is the BIG day

To all my felting friends here, I wanted to post an update and say I am getting ready for the Leeds Folk Festival on Saturday on Sunday, September 20 & 21. I went Friday evening and set up my tent and a few basic items for all the felting items I have to sell. I have been busy, busy and I plan on posting some pictures of the event later next week. I have a lot of nuno felted scarves, some tops, hats and a little bit of jewelry. The jewelry took a back seat this time, I just couldn't get it a… Continue

Added by DebsThreads on 20 September 2008 at 5:33am — 2 Comments

Saras Texture Crafts Felting your Soap Bar

I was intrigued by a video I found called, 'Wet Felting Wool over Soap' by www.crunchyparent.com. So I added it to the Working with Felt forum to share with other feltmakers. Here it is... … Continue

Added by Saras Texture Crafts on 17 September 2008 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

yvette cals Khalil Gibran

Remember how the earth likes to feel your bare feet, and the wind wants to play with your hair well, the weather for bare feet has gone, I'm going to make myself nice warm felt slippers... Continue

Added by yvette cals on 16 September 2008 at 2:04pm — 4 Comments

yvette cals I want to forget what I don't want to see

[ Draft ] I'm like a child putting her hands for her eyes thinking nobody sees her I want to forget what I don't want to see. But life's different Still I want to forget what I don't want to see Continue

Added by yvette cals on 15 September 2008 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Saras Texture Crafts The Craft of Natural Dyeing, a book review.

Author: Jenny Dean ISBN: 085532744-8 Publisher: Search Press This is one…
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Added by Saras Texture Crafts on 12 September 2008 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

yvette cals little mistakes make interesting stuff

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Added by yvette cals on 12 September 2008 at 7:26am — 1 Comment

Saras Texture Crafts How to Use Your Machine Embellisher.

Following on from my post about my Machine Embellisher… I promised a few readers and customers a brief ‘how to’ for my Janome machine. I’ve outlined below a little bit about the machine and a quick test piece, but I want to over the next month show you a few small projects and ideas for how you could take them further. Ok, let’s begin with ‘How to use your Janome Embellisher’ (please remember there are lots of other makes of machine out there too). First of all gather you materials... for this… Continue

Added by Saras Texture Crafts on 10 September 2008 at 4:05pm — 6 Comments

Amanda Heikkinen Natural dyeing course

I've just recently returned home following a fabulous 5 days up in Värtsilä, Eastern Finland - literally a stones throw from the Russian border. Under the excellent tuition of Rod Welch and Karoliina Arvilommi, I learnt an awful lot about dyeing wool using plants and mushrooms. I have posted a host of photos on my Flickr, too many for here so check them out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/feltfinland/ It was hard work picking the plants, keeping the fires going, remembering the mordants, checkin… Continue

Added by Amanda Heikkinen on 1 September 2008 at 4:00pm — 5 Comments

yvette cals Felt in the sea....

Yesterday was problaby the last warm beautiful summerday here in the Netherlands. Up to the beach, as I made recently a wild colored feltpiece, this was a perfect occasion to make a picture of it. The dogs (nederlandse schapendoes) loved it in the water. Continue

Added by yvette cals on 1 September 2008 at 7:44am — 3 Comments

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