Melting and Felting
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Learn to Combine Textiles and Felting Techniques
Melting and Felting is a Textiles book available from Rachel's Melted Fabrics.
I produced this e-book during 2008 when I didn't have access to a decent sewing machine!
Explore the scrumptious possibilities of felt with me as I create hats, boots, wall hangings, figurines, 3D structures and a sketchbook.
The aim of this book is to experiment with a new process and see how it can be combined and layered with sewn textiles, threads and yarns.
I called this book "Melting and Felting", not because there are a great deal of my melting techniques in this book but because the spirit of my work is still the same. It's still about "melting together" different textures into one piece.
The image opposite is a detail of a felt and textiles sketchbook I produced for this book.
All my textiles books are available as printable digital downloads from Lulu.com.
The Book
Melting and Felting
A "How- To" Textiles E-Book
Full of Delicious Felt Eye Candy!
Over 230 Full Colour Images
Over 230 pages of textiles
In Acrobat PDF Format
Melting and Felting includes:
Rachel's really basic and lazy felt technique
Adding felt to textiles
Adding textiles to felt- using up those odds and ends and off-cuts
Adding threads, yarn, string and even moss to felt!
Felting beads
Needle-felting flat pictures and figurines
Hand-stitching into felt with yarn
Felted shapes
Felt pictures
Experimental felted shawls, scarves, hats and boots
Felt vessels, sculptures, structures and cocoons
Making a mess!
Felt sketchbook- using up all those felt experiments
Crammed full of work in progress photos
Felted Beads
These are some of the felted beads I made to decorate my felt projects.
Making felt balls is possibly one of my favourite things about felting.
Included in my e-book, Melting and Felting, is a step-by-step guide to making your own felt balls.
They're so fun to make because once you have your ball base you can add lots of interesting fibres to the surface. I even explore adding bits to the centre of the balls and using natural materials like moss and seed casings.
Excerpts and Thumbnails
Take a sneaky peek at Melting and Felting.
Thumbnails from Melting and Felting.
My Felt Sketchbook
This lens is dedicated to one of the projects featured in Melting and Felting.
Learn to Needle Felt...
...with this starter kit!
Colonial Needle Needle Felting Starter Kit
Amazon Price: $100.00 (as of 02/13/2012)
Needle felting is loads of fun- a good option for those of you who are irritated by soap. Just watch out for your fingers when you're using that needle!
My Brief Guide to Needle Felting
Felt Cocoon
Soft-Coloured Felt Cocoon.
These felt cocoons were based on a short story I wrote about a child who could manipulate fabrics.
No, they are not weird slippers!
Full work in progress photos are included in Melting and Felting.
This is my favourite cocoon. I love the felt balls I made for this piece- they have all sorts of yummy decoration like locks of Wensleydale fibre and silk threads
Felt Cocoon
Cappucino Maltesers Felt Cocoon!
I used a white scarf as the base fabric for this piece- I love the way the fringing flows around the "face".
Felt Cocoon
Nature Cocoon
This cocoon was made using all sorts of bits and bobs- like felt with moss inside- felt balls with moss, seedpods, melted and knitted tights, handmade yarn etc.
My Other Textiles Books
Including some new books to look out for!
Felt Shawl
Felt Shawl featured in Melting and Felting.
This shawl (or wrap) is one of the projects documented in Melting and Felting with a series of work in progress photos and instructions.
This shawl is made from layers of corriedale sliver, merino, pink and silver net, patches of offcuts from textiles pieces and novelty yarns.
Felt Cave Painting
Blame it on reading "The Clan of the Cave Bear"!
This is a work in progress image of a "Cave painting" piece I produced for Melting and Felting.
The simplicity of cave paintings lend themselves to the loose look of felt images.
You can see this project progress in Melting and Felting.
Want to Learn More about my Textiles Techniques?
Felt to Stitch
By Sheila Smith
Felt to Stitch: Creative Felting for Textile Artists
Amazon Price: $14.16 (as of 02/13/2012)
This is one of the books on my wishlist.
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ludys
Jun 23, 2011 @ 9:20 am | delete
- You are very creative. Congratulations on LoTD!
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Koupie Jun 3, 2011 @ 9:52 am | delete
- Awesome, your ebook sounds like something I would be interested in, I love needle felting and playing with fibers, roving. I have a tutorial for making beads from baby wipes which I hope to publish soon. I am going to feature this lens on my beginners guide to needlefelting, love it !
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bakerwoman
Mar 20, 2011 @ 9:04 pm | delete
- These are such unique ideas. Lensrolled to The Joy of Wool Felting. Blessed by a SquidAngel.
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mysticmama
Jan 17, 2011 @ 12:03 am | delete
- You come up with the coolest ideas! :)
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MeltedRachel
Jan 19, 2011 @ 11:16 am | delete
- Thanks so much, Bambi :D
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