Amazing how water “floats” on top of wool until finally it goes through. Wool can absorb something like 20% of it’s weight in water before it feels wet. Not so easy to wet wool! And at the same time, because of it’s morphology; it absorbs and let’s water go through…that’s why people who do [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Tips'
Woolly soap Tutorial
February 18th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art, Tips, tutorials
Tutorial for beginners.
Tags:Felt·hand felted·handmade·soap·Tips·tutorial·water·wool
Details and tips for those who asked.
October 14th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art, Tips
Last week I presented in this post a group of wraps (for you) or throws (for your house) called “Retazos”, which in spanish means “Scraps”. After listing them in my shop I was too tired from editing pictures, so I just added a mosaic here. Well, as there were some questions sent to me, I [...]
Tags:details·Felt·fibres·hand dyed·hand made·hand spun·Tips·tutorials·wet feltinf·wraps·yarn
Color coordinating…
August 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art, Tips
I have a friend who is a graphic designer…and a bit crazy. We were talking a few days ago about colors and how I coordinate my colors and she confessed that sometimes, when she has to get dressed in the morning and is a bit lost for choices…she uses an online palette generator to decide [...]
Wooden Buttons
May 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Tips
Remember a few days ago I was talking about sneaking into Mr Husband’s workshop to use his tools for making buttons?Well, they are done. I needed to make fast a bunch for a friend, so I grabbed the hand saw and cut around 30 slices from a piece of wood laying around. I cut [...]
Prefelts
April 29th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art, Tips
Prefelts are pieces of felt which one can buy or, if you are not too lazy, make your self. The difference with the normal felt is that these sheets of felt aren’t fully felted. They are ussually used by felters whom especialize in wall art, tapestry or rugs; or indeed any felted work with lots [...]
List of vegetables for dyeing
April 22nd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Dyeing, Tips
Looking a bit more into this dyeing business, I found a list of vegetables with the possible colors one can get from them. The method itself, was the same. So here:
Light Purple: small quantity of grape juiceViolet blue: red onions skinsBlue: Canned blueberries, red cabage, purple grape juiceGreen: spinach, grassYellow: orange or lemon peels, [...]
Tags:Dyeing·Jenny Dean·vegetables
How to dye wool with veggies-Tutorial
April 20th, 2009 · 20 Comments · Dyeing, Tips
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while but I was always a bit scared, not sure of proportions and the rest. I read words like alum and creme of tartar…and froze not knowing precisely what that was (and couldn’t figure out the proper translation to my mother language, spanish). So, while I was [...]
Tags:Dyeing·tutorial·vegetables·veggies·wool
Felt rug making
April 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Felt, Tips
I saw a link to this video in a forum I participate. It’s from a company called Peace Industry which designs and makes felt rugs. Very pretty indeed. They have on their website a film of an iranian felt maker, demonstrating the traditional way of making felted rugs. Very intricate designs done by one man, [...]
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Merry Go Round
February 27th, 2009 · 25 Comments · Felt, Fibre Art, Merry Go Round, Tips, tutorials
Jump on our merry go round and join a group of artists/crafts-women as they link hands around the world and tell you a little about their lives and art.
We are group of 7 women from all over the world, we have got together in what would constitute an example of peaceful idea exchange and [...]
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