Needle Felting
Don't you just love that jolt when you open the same old website, and it's got a new look? I guess it's like my hair, I can't stand looking at the same thing day after day. There's not much I can do about my hair, but I did want to get rid of that green template--yay!
Yesterday my friend Rosemary came through town to pick up her quilts from last month's gallery show. She was kind enough to bring her needle-felting machine because I had been asking about it. Here's an example of Rosemary's needle-felting, and here's what the machine looks like.
It looks like a sewing machine, except there's no thread, no bobbin, and instead of one needle there's seven barbed ones that just go up and down and mash-mesh two or three layers of fabric together.
She let me play around with it on several different types of fabric. It works best on wool, silk, and rayon -- not cotton. It's pretty addictive, but I don't know what I'd use it for. I'll have to put that on my someday this would be nice surprise present list for that little elf who lives in the hollow tree outside our house. It's good to have one of those lists, with lots of good stuff on it.
I have a friend who got a full set of drums for her birthday last month, and I'm wondering if she really, really wanted them or was it just one of those things she might have mentioned after a couple of glasses of wine? So be careful what you put on your list. A full set of drums is a lot more difficult to store than a needle-felting machine.
Yesterday my friend Rosemary came through town to pick up her quilts from last month's gallery show. She was kind enough to bring her needle-felting machine because I had been asking about it. Here's an example of Rosemary's needle-felting, and here's what the machine looks like.
It looks like a sewing machine, except there's no thread, no bobbin, and instead of one needle there's seven barbed ones that just go up and down and mash-mesh two or three layers of fabric together.
She let me play around with it on several different types of fabric. It works best on wool, silk, and rayon -- not cotton. It's pretty addictive, but I don't know what I'd use it for. I'll have to put that on my someday this would be nice surprise present list for that little elf who lives in the hollow tree outside our house. It's good to have one of those lists, with lots of good stuff on it.
I have a friend who got a full set of drums for her birthday last month, and I'm wondering if she really, really wanted them or was it just one of those things she might have mentioned after a couple of glasses of wine? So be careful what you put on your list. A full set of drums is a lot more difficult to store than a needle-felting machine.
posted by PaMdora at 1:37 PM
3 Comments:
Pam:
Your blog face lift looks great. Nice and clean. Great graphic. I want to do mine too. Thanks for the nice comments about my postcard art!
Love the new look. I have a pal who uses one of those needle felting machines, Sharon Malec, the Dog Lady. She makes dog pictured quilts and I imagine soon they will have 'fur' on them from this machine.
I'm totally diggin' the new look! Makes me want to change mine now, lol!
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