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A basket to felt

If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you know that I’m OBSESSED with felting!

I make regular felted bowls all the time, I still have a ton of them made, that I haven’t taken pictures of yet to list in my Etsy shop.

The other day, I got some yarn that I had ordered from an [...]

A treasury from down under

A couple of the places I would love to visit, before I get too old, are Australia and New Zealand.

A special ‘sneaky’ friend – Cheryl from Tinker’s Shop, has been living in NZ for the last several months and has written about her adventures on her blog.

This morning I woke up to a message from Cheryl [...]

New felted bowls – a sneak peek

I’m on a roll this morning – have been crocheting bowls like crazy lately – and today, decided to felt them in the washing machine.

Here’s some that are a combination of fingering wool and regular wool, some are made with dark green, some with light green, and there is even a wool trivet. This is the [...]

I love my felted bowls!!

If you have visited my Etsy shop in the past, you know that I have created some felted bowls. Some of them, I have used as gifts, others as prizes – it’s a work of love for me to see the results

Here’s a post about one of my bowls offered as a prize!

And another [...]

A very busy day

Yesterday, I had 2 doctor appointments scheduled, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I figured if I had to be away from home, I might as well get as much done as possible.

My morning appt was at 10am, about an hour away from home. This was with my oncologist, a 6 month appt [...]

I’ve been featured at Tracey Knits!

A friend of mine, Tracey from Tracey Knits who is also a member of the Etsytwitter Team with me, has featured my shop on her blog!

As a part of her writeup – we are giving away one of my sets of felted bowls! You know about my obession to felting, well here’s your chance to win [...]

I’ve been featured in a treasury!

A friend of mine, Susan, from Salon D’Arte has created a treasury and included one of my fall felted bowl sets! One of the bowls is the 2nd picture down on the left.

I wanted to feature one of Susan’s items from her shop.

Susan says: I love making dimensional paper creations. There is a joy and zen [...]

My felting obsession

Actually, it’s not an obsession yet – wait til I have a little more time, I want to try needle felting, and felting soap.

But for right now I’m concentrating on bowls.

The first felted bowls I made, were created with Patons Wool. It’s a thin wool strand so took 2 strands crocheted together to get the bowls [...]

New Square Felted Bowl

If you have been keeping up with my posts – you know that I have just started felting. Wait until you see my new wool yarn stash…

The first bowl I made, as too flimsy because I only used one strand of yarn.

The 2nd bowl I made, I used 2 strands of patons wool yarn, and that [...]

My second attempt at a felted bowl

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve tried to get time to make another felted bowl.

Based on my first attempt – I crocheted a couple of bowls, still with a double crochet stitch, but this time with 2 strands of wool yarn.

I still stayed with the Patons wool, but I used one strand of the natural [...]