Book on Felting

Title page for Art in Felt & Stitch 

In this book, Moy Mackay creates painterly pictures by wet felting.  Her process instructions are clear and the steps are photographed making them easier to follow.  The book includes chapters on still life, animals, flowers, and landscapes.  Each section has photos of her work that provide inspiration and a detailed project with directions.  Moy uses many different fibers in her felting and adds stitching to provide details. She, also, gives full explanations of her equipment and materials.  The book is a great instructive resource, and I love to just look at the photos of her work.

Needle Felting

Recent Class

Lyn Slade is a needle felting artist, and I was fortunate to take a class with her.  We sculpted wool roving into a three-dimensional owl.  Lyn provided a kit with all the equipment and materials we needed, and her instruction was easy to follow and was thorough.  It was a fun time.

Lyn has also written a book that is a wonderful resource: Creative Needle Felting: Wool Art with a Painterly Style.

I came across another needle felting artist, Juliana Boyd. She was selling her work at the Paradise City Arts Festival in Northampton, MA over the holiday weekend.  Due to the weather, my trip to the Festival didn't happen, so I checked out her work online.  She creates incredible two-dimentional pieces.  I'm hoping her work will be in the Marlboro (MA) Festival in November.