"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator.
The triumph of life is expressed by creation."

- Henri Bergson

May you remember today, to nourish your creativity and encourage your own greatness.
You are a brilliant ray of light, and we are grateful for you.

Happy Mother's Day!
In honor of Mother's Day, we selected this wonderful composition
by Donna Reilly of Clifton Park, NY. Donna felted this piece
entitled "Can You Feel That?" for the 1st Living Felt International Felting Contest.
See/share this sculpture on the blog


See all 2010 entries : Doll | Alice in Wonderland
See all 2011 entries: Doll | Seuss-pirations

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

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Free Needle Felting Tutorial: Nesting Birds

Check out this fabulous and very detailed needle felting tutorial
by Patty Gibson! If you participate in our community on facebook,
you may have seen Patty's incredible life-like bird sculptures.

We invited Patty to join us as a guest teacher on the Felting Friends Blog
and she jumped in with a wonderful free tutorial for all to enjoy!
If our sources are correct, we've heard that her next tutorial will
be on bird feet...so make sure to follow the blog and stay
informed of new felting tutorials and inspiring works!

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"Since being inspired by the chickadees in your Jan. 14th newsletter, I have been learning how to needle felt by working on my favorite birds. Here is my version of a chickadee, tufted titmouse, and nuthatch. I used core wool, merino top, New Zealand Corriedale in black, honey, and red, along with some wool from my local shepherdess friends.
I just placed another order to stock my stash with more bird colors! Thanks for your wonderful products!"

- Sandy Britland, Lyon Station, PA

"Just thought I'd share with you. My fiancee is organizing the Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild runway show this year and the theme is "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" and she's asked if I could create 6 birds for centerpieces for the show. Picture #1 is the first of these birds and my very first felting creation.

I built a jig to simplify (and standardize) the construction of the birds' legs. I used chenille stems for this armature, but in future I'll probably use wire coat hangers for the added strength.

These are to be somewhat whimsical birds, so I thought I'd add hearts for eyes and bought a pack of 50 heart brads in 6 colors. The brads were originally flat paint, so I made a card, inserted all of them and sprayed them with a high-gloss clear acrylic spray.

I built the body of natural wool roving, added the colors and used a narrow awl to glue the legs and heart eyes in place. I've developed ideas for a total of 18 birds, but may not build them all, since they need to be ready by June 1."

Charlie LeBlanc

 

Mary Stoner of Aaronsburg, PA
shared with us this lovely creation she calls
her Daffodil Jacket!

It was inspired by a Daffodil Cake she once tasted :)

Mary Wins a $25 Gift Certificate to Living Felt

Read more from Mary on the blog

 

Robin Pence won our April drawing for
an Autographed Copy of the book
Peace Fibres
Stitching a Soulful World

Read Interview with Karen

*Everyone who posted a comment
on this article before April 30th was automatically
entered to win an autographed copy of the book!

Congratulations, Robin!

 

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Send us pictures of your felting projects!

- felt cards, bookmarks & journals
- tapestries, wall art
- baby/baby's room
- children's toys
- fairies/garden/gnomes
- forest & jungle friends
- gifts for "him"
- purses, bags and carry-alls
- ocean, sea, beach themes
- art dolls, traditional or wild!

(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!

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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.