“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”

- Frank Scully

Our wish for you this week is that you go out on a limb, reach to a new place and see
what you find! You might be surprised that the magical fruit you discover was with you all along!
You are brilliant, and we are so grateful to have you as part of our felting community.

These wonderful felted Easter celebrations are just in time and right in line with our free tutorials this week!
We just LOVE the dangling bunnies and Easter Eggs - very festive!

"This is the first time I have ever worked with wool or done any felting - I am having so much fun! The bunnies are made from the Merino-Cross fast felting batts and the eggs are made with the New Zealand Corriedale."

- Kimberly Czar of Amesbury, MA

As always, we wish you happy felting, and let us know if you have any questions
or need any support by emailing us at customer service@livingfelt.com

With Love,
Marie

The New Facebook Timeline Hare Today and Gone Tomorrow?
No one knows for sure, but we decided to have some fun with it. To kick things off, we will feature a picture from one of our felting friends each week! We love sharing your fabulous creations in the newsletter, the blog and on the website, and now you have another opportunity to get published! See below for submission info.

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Jo Grover shared this wonderful felt "painting" on facebook,
it is of Salcombe North Sands, UK and it is only her 2nd ever needle felt!

What an amazing job she did capturing color, dimension and depth.
We hope you will jump on facebook and share some love!

 

I first became acquainted with Teresa when she sent us photos of her wet felted scarves, they are lovely!

We will share them with you soon in an upcoming feature on scarves, but when I asked her about them, she included several photos of her needle felted bunnies. They are awesome! We asked if she would be interested to make a tutorial and her answer was too great not to share!

"I'd have no idea how to do a tutorial for my animals. They just start out as a blob and go from there. The only real tip I know for sure when doing animals is to make sure to set the eyes in the wool, not on top, for a more realistic look. Oh, and have lots of pictures from different angles. When making something three dimensional, you have to constantly turn it around and check that it looks proportional from all angles. I'd be more than happy to submit pictures of the process, but it'd probably look like a raw wool - blob - still blob - less blob - sort of animal - yay animal, progression."

"When I first started needle felting, I didn't even have a foam mat. I had two needles purchased from a sewing supply store and some old wool my Mom had had shipped from New Zealand to spin (spinning never happened, so I absconded with it). Many puncture wounds later I found Living Felt on the internet and have since ordered all my goodies from you.

Everything I make is trial and error. I've gotten tips from your site as well as from fiber artists across the internet. Mostly I see things and immediately think, 'I should make that out of wool!' "

Teresa Brooks, New Zealand

She shared it with us on facebook.

 

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Send us pictures of your Spring & Easter felting projects!
flowers, scarves, birds, easter bunnies, eggs & chicks...

(can be pictures, wearables, sculptures, etc. include details -- see below)
Send us a picture of yours for a chance to win a Living Felt Gift Certificate!
send to: submissions@livingfelt.com

Just follow these 5 simple steps:

1) Take a nice clear photo with a complimentary background

2) Re-size to a maximum of 1000 pixels wide.
If you can’t do it with your own software, try this free tool: http://www.picresize.com/

3) Send your photo to submissions@livingfelt.com with Photo Entry - Item (hat, bear, scarf, etc.) in the Subject Line

4) TELL US SOMETHING INTERESTING about the piece:)

5) Tell us what supplies you used - be specific if possible

*Remember, every photo posted on facebook or emailed to us is entered into our
Monthly Drawing for Living Felt Gift Certificates and Prizes!

facebook | felting friends blog

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Join us on facebook, and become a friend of LIVING FELT where you can upload your felted creations for all to enjoy!

Sending My Blessings,
Marie Spaulding
www.LivingFelt.com ~ Act on Your Inspired Ideas!

On behalf of all of us here at Living Felt, I thank you for your letters, emails, pictures, and facebook posts. We truly love hearing from you, receiving your echoes of joy at tapping into your Inner Creativity, feeling the wonder and exhilaration of expressing from your heart. All of us here read your notes, and we all give thanks that we can be of service in lighting up that brilliant, brilliant light within you, and reminding you that it was with you all along.