Needle felt coaster

the title is 'simple zakka and bag of felt wool,' and the book includes many wet-felted projects like bags, coasters, and lots of decorative and functional items to use at home. the coasters include the application of needle-felting patterns. the unique combination of techniques in this book is the combination of felting and crochet, both with yarn and with raffia. there are 23 different projects, with lovely photos (too many to post here). althought the text is entirely in japanese, there…

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Felt coasters #felt#needlefelting#handmade#craft#coasters#homedecor

Here's the brief story about how this very exciting Shaun the Sheep coaster came to be. I'm going to share with you how I made my coaster (hey, cool - free pattern!) But you'll have to use your imagination to decorate your finished felted piece. For a few years I've used this felted heart on my desk as a coaster. It works well enough I suppose, but lately I've been wanting to replace it with a round or square shaped coaster of some sort. In the beginning, I didn't know exactly what I wanted…

Our friend Jen showed us a new way to play with wool - yipeeee!! Really. If you are at all into making things with wool, you need to try this. I have no idea what to call it - I've been googling all kinds of descriptions just to see what all a person could do with this, but I'm not coming up with anything! (ok, I just went and looked again. For a long time. Nothing.) I took pictures as she made a few pieces, and then Eliza got excited about making a photo tutorial, so here is a combination…