Stab Things Into Existence Blog (Anna's Place of Holding)
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I went to Felt Camp... Virtually!
I recently completed 10 days of Virtual Felting Camp with some amazing artists from Europe: Corinna Nitschmann, Aniko Boros, Nadia Szabó, Gabriella Kovács, and Bea Németh. The techniques I learned will assist me in ramping up my own felting journey as well as provide me with additional ways to teach YOU felting in the future. We had five projects to complete during our camp: a checked orb, pebble jewelry, an amazingly lightweight nuno scarf dyed with botanical prints (I have yet to do this particular project), a fun puppet with a working jaw, and a felted house tea cozy. Camp ended...
Heartfelt.
Heartfelt. Heart felted. Feeling heart. I don’t know about you, but these days, my heart has taken a bashing or two…hundred. The world has become so closed off, so remote, and so distant, that my heart sometimes feels like it shrunk three sizes. (My apologies to Dr. Seuss.) And that’s when I need to remind myself to refocus, redirect, and refill my heart. Often that is possible just by the simple act of needle felting a heart. I always find my spirit begins to brighten up when I’m creating hearts, particularly if I am able to use a riot of...
I Felted... now what?
Where I began
Some of you have known me from early on in my felting journey, and you have seen my work transform and evolve slowly over the past ten+ years. Some of you only know me from what I’ve been teaching and doing these past several years, as I’ve honed my teaching skills in local workshops, convention classes, and guild events and meetings. But I dare say that very few, if any of you, recall my early work, for which I was, at the time, as a self taught felter, very proud. Now some of these make me cringe: I show you...
WHAT IS FELTING?
Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp-based rayon. (Source: Wikipedia) Clear as mud, right? Felting is a way to create things of beauty, both fabric and sculptural, through the use of a barbed needle (needle felting) or by changing the pH of the wool and using friction in a soap and water application (wet felting). Here on Stab Things Into Existence, I’ll teach you how those...
YOU MIGHT BE A FELTER…
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