Nuno Fun

Being the inquisitive soul that I am I thought I would have a play with Nuno! No Nuno is not an Italian man, Nuno is a felting technique by which you felt onto a fabric base. I got a nuno book for christmas and two chiffon scarf blanks and only just got around to playing with them in august.Thus far I have only made 1 scarf but it was fun and I love the results, my first nuno scarf is a double sided affair in stormy colours. One side is different grey tones offset by a long black stripe down the middle. I used merino wool and ran little strpes of pure white silk fiber horizontally over the top.On side 2 I used a big swathe of black right down the middle with white stripes for a ladder effect in merino again with random silk fibers scatered over the top and curly wensleydale wool down the chiffon sides to make the scarf crinkle a little.

I really love my new merino scarf, it's toasty warm but still quite light and floaty, I'm hoping to get lots of wear out of it this winter. As it's my first I won't be parted from it but I think I have the merino bug now and will be making many more, hopefully! I have even bought a manniquin, called Miranda, to model them and will be adding them to my etsy repetoire soon!

Tweets Take Off

I am loving my new design Tweets, I love them so much that it's hard to part with them! Here are a pair of Tweets getting ready for a long voyage all the way across the pond to their new American home! I hope the like it there! I am particularly sad to part with my blue and pink tweet chick... which was my very first tweet!

I packaged them up well with some pink tissue which apparently they love to make nests out of, I also dropped in a package of Tweet food which is invisible to humans so they won't go hungry! Bye bye tweets!

Tweets!!!!

Poverty is great inspiration!!! Having just had my work hours cut down I find my self a: broke and b: with a lot of time on my hands! Literally!!!!
So, Yes, I did sit around and mope for a bit felling kinda sorry for myself then I got off my big butt and decided to do make some new designs to cheer myself up! What came out when I started felting were all these guys. I call them Tweets, in fact they all have names and their names are Tweet! I asked them: "What's your name?" and each and every one said "Tweet"!!!


Now, Tweets come in and infinite variety of styles (species if you like) from Exotic Tweets, Garden Tweets, Love Bird Tweets and of course simply Tweets!!!! I'm sure I will discover lots of new species as I delve deeper in the the realm of the Tweets... I'm very excited!

So I have donned safari hat and shorts and am setting out to search for more Tweets... The ones I have found already can be purchased at my shop.


TWEET!!!

Pigs Might Fly...

After having a horrendous week I felt I needed some cheering up. My suggestion that I could win the lottery was met with the standard parental phrase of "and pigs might fly". So in effort to hasten my lottery fortune I made some pigs that do indeed fly... Oh yes!

Now all I need to do is to sit back and wait for the money to come rolling in!
Flying pigs come in large, medium and teeny sizes and each is attached to a sparkley shiny lurex string for easy flight! Flying pigs are magical and there fore need lots of love and attention... flying pigs help the impossible become possible!!!

You can find them here: Feltmeup's shop

Mis-adventures in Craft Fair Land Part 2

Ah ha!!! At last I am Famoose!!! Behold my press clippings... erm clipping.

Note to self... next local event make an effort to lok less hungover!

Mis-adventures in craft fair land!

Sunday 13th July saw the first ever feltmeup craft fair adventure at Cayton village hall, near Scarborough. To be honest I wasn't expecting great things but it was a chance to give the felt an airing and see it all together in one place for once.

Sheep and aliens got a lot of attention as did badges and postcards. Bunnies were popular with the local press and Feltmeup was featured in the local paper, The Scarborough evening news. (pictures to follow since I forgot to buy said paper on tuesday!)

Cayton was also an opportunity to make new friends and contacts, as well as the glory of being in the local press, Feltmeup made connections with a couple of local businesses and are now discussing the possibility of having some felty creatures and badges in Kate's lovely shop in the market vaults in Scarborough.
I also loved seeing all my bags together, it reminded me how much I enjoyed making them. Every bag has a different memory behind it and so often I forget the reasons I started making in the first place. Lots of happy memories are in this little box! (Even if nobody wants to buy them I still love each and every one!)

All profits from the day were spent, very wisely, at the wonderful cake stall who did a fantastic line in fairy cakes!
To read more about the gala visit our local paper's website here

Isn't etsy a wonderful place? This is my lovely swap item from Bigfish of etsy. Look at all the pretty things! The UK bunch played a swapping game where we all sent of pretty things to a secret swap partner... it was coordinated by the lovely and talented Coldcell and we have our own flickr group here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ukswapmay/