Mostly Knitting: Embellishing Archives

Free Wool

Posted by on Friday 21 March, 2008 09:53 AM

I have 2/3 of a garbage bag of yarn that was cut for selling as decorative embellishment for felters and textile artists.

Each piece is about 25cm long and it's fingering weight. There is a lot of bright blue, some turquoise, red, salmon, yellow ochre and I think a little black.

It would be great for a felting guild or fibre shop to repackage and sell, or it could be used to make a few rya rugs if you're a weaver. Also could be repackaged for workshops on weaving with ghiordes knots etc. I'd use it to make rugs myself but it's just not my colours.

Free to anyone who can pick it up (contact me for my location). Or I can mail out a 3 kilo bag of various colours or just bright blue to anyone who wants to pay postage. (That's whatever will fit in a 3 kilo post satchel, may or may not be a full 3 kilos)

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Creative Ideas with Needle Punching (aka Embellishing/Machine Needle Felting)

Posted by on Tuesday 26 February, 2008 10:13 AM

If you're anything like me, when you come across a new technique you need a few ideas to get you started.

A few years ago I bought an embellishing machine, also known as a needle punching machine, and I've mostly been playing around using woollen fabrics, yarns and roving because that's what I know as traditional felting materials.

Thanks to "Allie's in Stitches", who linked to the following videos, I now have many more ideas to play with :)

And also this video which has a great number of techniques for making background fabrics and specific projects.

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