My fiber travels

Yep, I do love fiber. I have uploaded a bunch of photos to Flickr from a few of my fiber crafts from the last 2 years.
Rug hooking was fun but took a long time. I started doing smaller and smaller projects and then I remembered crewel. In my guild (AlbemarleCraftsman's Guild) there was a wonderful older lady who did beautiful Crewel. I always admired her work but at that time I was into porcelain dolls. From there I went to cornshuck dolls - Oh that's another story for another day. Anyway... I did enough crewel to have a booth in the Albemarle Craftsman's Fair and did quite well that year. Cindy shared a booth with me as it was her first year with her quilling.
I began combining hand embroidery with crewel pieces and also with the rug hooking. I haven't done any rug hooking in a while but I still love embroidery as there is always a new stitch to learn.
So then it was off to needle felting - I saw it on Etsy and was hooked before I even tried it. I have done a little wet felting and last week tried nuno felting. Now that ended up wrong. I had thought about doing some cobweb felting and that's what this turned in to - kinda. My wool didn't bond completely to the fabric and I just went ahead and pulled it all off. I really do like the piece I ended up with but will try to figure out the nuno-felting again. I used an organza fabric instead of the silk piece I also purchased. I guess I'll try with the silk. Anyone have any suggestions?
I think I may stay with felting a while as there are different techniques and projects that I would like to try. Stay tuned and I'll talk about my sculpey days too!
Happy crafting,
Lisa

My first blog attempt

By Lisa:
Well, here I am. Yep, the original "Wow I want to learn how to do that -Ok I'm bored with that -" Oh let me try that." I have created and sold at craft fairs and galleries porcelain dolls, corn shuck dolls, corn shuck flowers and wreaths, wheat weaving, polymer clay figurines and jewelry, polymer clay Santas, embroidery and crewel, rug hooking and too many more to list! I have now found wool felting and I can combine all of my loves with that craft. I began with needle felting and making bears and animals-proceeded onto jewelry where I discovered wet felting and making sheets of multi-colored wool fabric (which I haven't decided what I'm going to do with yet) and of course had to incorporate wire wrapping with the jewelry and then back to needle felting on clothing - YIKES- I really love this craft. I can use my hand embroidery, crewel and rug hooking as well as sewing with any part of this craft. So for now-this is it. I hope to post some pictures soon so I can share some of my favorite designs. Happy felting!