Felt to Stitch
Author: Sheila Smith
In Felt to Stitch, acclaimed feltmaker Sheila Smith explores the possibilities of making and using handmade felt for stitch. Felt is an incredibly versatile medium that is easy to make and manipulate and provides the ideal base for surface embellishment. Handmade felt allows you a degree of control and creativity that ready-made fabrics cannot replicate. This book shows you how lto make your own felt, select and dye your own colours, build unusual textures with felt fibres and further decoraton, and manipulate felt to make stunning threedimensional pieces. With sample projects that illustrate the main techniques, the book covers:
• Making Hand-Rolled Felt: all the basic techniques you need for creating felt
• Colour in Felt: blending commercially dyed fibres; dyeing processes for wool fibres; applying colour as surface design
• Line, Shape and Pattern: methods for creating clear outlines in felt; pre-felts for use as inlays; appliqué and mosaic techniques
And more.
