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CRAZY WOOL Using Water Soluble Stabilisers Jeannette Knake SRP:  $13.95	Softcover  Pages:  48  Learn how to make a great selection of fashionable garments including jackets, shawls, sweaters and bags. All with simple techniques using wool handknitting yarn and wool roving. Perfect for knitters who love to felt, and felters who cant help but knit on the side!   For those of you who like needle felting. This one shows how to embellish clothes and fabric. It's projects are appropriate for a beginner.   I have individual needles, multi-needle punches, foam, and a full spectrum of  colored fiber ready for you to use.
FAST, FUN & EASY NEEDLE FELTING: 8 Techniques & Projects — Creative Results in Minutes by Lynne Farris     $14.95	Pages 48   Review: This lovely and practical book has all the technical information needed to get started on this irresistible craft now having a popular resurgence. Projects are divided into four sections: Flat Felt, Pre-Felts, Nuno Felt, and New Techniques. Each section has three to five projects that teach and build on the different felt making techniques in the previous sections. The range of projects include colorful cushions, scarves made with a variety of techniques, a simple bag constructed from a felted square, a table runner, a stitched and felted baby blanket, and even a gauzy window drape.   From Pat:   This may be the best book for you if you haven't done needle felting before and you want to make objects, blend colors and do embellishments.
FELT FRENZY: 26 Projects for All Forms of Felting by Shannon Okey                      $21.95	Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, this project collection explores all the major felt making techniques, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needle felting, and "recycled felting," as well as ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results. With 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations, crafters can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice. Instructions are given for felted bags, flowers, hats, jackets, scarves, wool sneakers, and even a nuno felted skirt; while fiber types, tools for getting started, and the four major techniques needed to create these projects are also all covered. Armed with plenty of information and the authors' can-do spirit, crafters will find it easy to add felting to their repertoires.   From Pat:   This book tries to do alot.  It has great ideas and could keep you busy for a year. It has great projects for teens.
Felting Needle Book: From Factory To Fantasy by Ayala Talpai(includes 4 needles)   $22.00	Review: This small, spiral bound craft book offers a clear cut introduction to the art of felting, from which delightful dolls, needlebooks and decorated eggs and can be created. The book comes with several felting needles (safely ensconced in plastic scabbards in the back), instructions with line drawings for several projects and a couple of pages of resources for wool and other information to help foster the learning process. One whole page is taken up by cautioning the felter to be careful of the very sharp needles, even encouraging the reader to update her tetanus shot! Ayala Talpau gets quite poetic with her thanks (".gratitudes." to "All the elves & faeries, trolls & nature spirits, mermaids & centaurs") and in a note to the reader, ("Dear one, we have become like friends, yes?"). The Felting Needle, with drawings, notes and explanations, is like a letter to a sister rather than an academic craft book. 10 small photographs on end pages.   From Pat: This was the beginning book of the world of needle felting, the one the got us started. It is best if you want to do fairies and trolls and creatures.
Felting Needle Book: Further Fantasies by Ayala Talpai   $24.95	From Pat: This was book two by the mother of needle felting. Again, it is a book for doing creatures and is wonderful for that genre.
Indygo Junction's: NEEDLE FELTING: 22 Stylish Projects for the Home & Fashion by Amy Barickman   $24.95	Pages:  80  Size:  8½'' X 11''        Start with wool--then go wild! Needle felting is easy to learn and fun to do, and the results are stunning. Choose or reuse wool fabric, then add yarns, roving, and novelty fibers. Wet and dry felting, hand and machine techniques give endless choices for kicky clothing, bags, jewelry, pillows, and more. Nearly two dozen projects plus an idea gallery from five top designers mean needle felting is sure to be the next crafting craze.     From Pat:   This is one of the first "crossover" books. It is put out by quilters. It has terrific ideas for cloths and presents and quick projects. Most projects are extremely simple and quick.
Needle Felted Accessories: 18 Projects by Amy Barickman               $19.99    Needle Felted Fashions: 10 Unique Projects by Amy Barickman            $19.99	From Pat:   These two are extensions of Needle Felting above. More ideas. More simple projects.   The Accessories book is full of felted jewelry and purses, eyeglass cases and scarves.  The patterns are complete, you can trace and cut out. In the jewelry, she shows how to add beads and doe clasps, etc.                           Felted Fashions delves further into the embellishment world.  This is transforming your clothes, whether they are new or bargain basement finds, or you are covering a spot or tear.
NEEDLE FELTING: Simple Techniques, Beautiful Projects by Linda Lenich & Jennifer Kooy Zoeterman                         $14.95	Pages 32 8 1/2'' X 11'' Get a complete introduction to the hottest new craze in wool crafting--needle felting. Learn all the basics, and then try your poke-and-punch skills in five fun projects.   From Pat: This book is a very simple starter in wool applique. You can do these projects as soon as you go to the store for the backgrounds you want to embellish.  The projects are prettyl: a book mark, a book cover, a memento pillow, a candle rest and a table mat.
NEEDLE FELTING BY HAND OR MACHINE 15 Projects Using Easy-to-Learn Techniques   by Linda Griepentrog & Pauline Richards                                   $22.99	Machine felting is one of the hottest things in fiber arts, building on the rich history of hand felting. With top sewing manufacturers adding felting accessories to their lines, a practical how-to guide is a great first step to enjoying this exciting craft. In this guide you'll discover the history behind this popular practice, which involves a piercing process with barbed needles to embed the fibers into the base. You will be inspired by the exciting projects and 200+ color photos and illustrations in this book, as you use your hand or machine to create felted items for your home, wardrobe or to give as gifts.   From Pat: This serves another need, catering to the machine artists.  It is comprehensive and is full of ideas and very complete instructions. The gallery at the back is fun.
NEEDLE FELTING: Art Techniques and Projects by Anne Elinset Vickrey  $16.95	Spiral Bound.  7 1/4" X 8" Review: I had never heard of needle felting before reading this book and I was skeptical of the craft at first. After reading this book however, I see it now as a fiber art capable of whimsical dolls and sculptures, and also lovely works of art. Imagination is the only limit to what you can create. As an admitted novice, I felt this book gave useful information as to the tools, and how to choose an appropriate felting needle. The two methods for creating felt are also explained. The five projects begin with the very simple and progress into three dimensional objects. From Pat: This is a great book, one I most often recommend. It is thorough.  It came out about 3rd on this list. I think the three authors, are in the top five people doing work in this field.  The book is very wording with illustrations but few pictures. They teach making free form shapes, pictorals, sculpting and using wet and dry felting to achieve a desired result.
WATERCOLOR FELT WORKBOOK: A Guide to Making Pictorial Felts Using Wet and Dry Felting Methods by Pat Sparks     $29.00	Review: This workbook is intended to help you learn the technique developed by Pat Spark, called "Watercolor Felt". Ms. Spark calls her method by this name because she uses concepts from painting, and applies those concepts to feltmaking. The result is felts that are visually similar to watercolors, but which are totally made of dyed fiber. There is no actual painting involved, unless you consider the placement of each individual colored fiber as "painting" with the fiber. The process involves the use of both the traditional, wet felting method and needle felting, also known as the dry felting method. Following Ms. Spark’s instructions with these two felting methods, you will be able to create your own pictorial felts. Don’t know how to draw? Don’t worry; Ms. Spark has included methods for working from photographs to create your images. The workbook is divided into two sections. Section One describes basic felting information. Section Two is a series of samplers that will take you step by step through the various needle felting and wet felting methods you will need for doing the process. The samplers are sequential, with each one building upon the techniques of the last so that you will methodically gain the expertise needed to make the pictorial felts. All pictures and illustrations are in black and white with 4 pages of colored pictures showing the samplers you will make with a photograph of the flower or leaves at the top of the page and the finished felt piece at the bottom of the page.   From Pat:  This is the graduate course.  If you want to really use color and needle felting to its greatest heights.  Pat Spark knows what she is doing and you will understand how to make it after using this.
Traditional Wet Felting
Art of  Feltmaking  by Anne Vickery ( a great idea book)     $24.95	Review: I like books that are more than they seem. I thought this was just a children's project book using dyed and undyed bits of fleece and rudimentary felting techniques to make beads and figures. After a closer look, I started seeing the abundance of useful felting lore from around the world. After the simple children's work come the Swedish and Nomadic coats, boots, etc. All this information with nice color illustrations of articles and techniques will make teachers happy and wool artists inspired by this ancient craft.  From Pat:  This is one of the best idea books, no matter what kind of felting you are doing.  The projects and history is delightful.  It is my best seller.
Felting By Hand by Anne Einset Vickrey $14.95	Review: This well-written, easy-to-follow book, contains information about felting that I don't remember seeing before. For example, the felting quality of wool varies with the breed of sheep from which it is obtained (and a table listing the felting qualities of different wools is included). In addition, the author shows you how to make your own patterns, describes the felting and fulling processes, and presents several different projects for making slippers, mittens, hats, a handbag, wall hangings and rugs, a vest, and more.
FELT MAKING AND WOOL MAGIC: Contemporary Techniques and Beautiful Projects by Jorie Johnson $24.99	Softcover 128 pages Review: After studying textile design in both the USA and Finland, author Jorie Johnson was introduced to the felt making process in 1977 when she was first taught Scandinavian felt boot-making. She was immediately struck by felt’s amazing properties and possibilities. Through this book, Felt Making and Wool Magic, you will see that Jorie’s approach to felt making is clearly creative as well as effective. The book covers in detail, basic step by step felt making techniques, then goes on to present a series of projects from simple jewelry to beautiful vests. From Pat: This is a very comprehensive book with 500 detailed pictures. Projects: balls, pet portraits, color and breed samples, crescent pendants, flower bouquets, doggie toys, baby boots, shoulder bags, lady's hat, fabric for vests, flat braided muffler, mohair yarn scarf, slippers, carpet. Has a fun section of techniques and history.
FELT TO STITCH: Creative Felting for Textile Artists by Sheila Smith  $24.95	Hardcover  128  pages  Review: This work offers basic and advanced techniques for those who want to take feltmaking to another level. This is the only book to explore the surface embellishment of felt. It is a must-have guide for textile artists of all abilities. 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 to make your own felt, select and dye your own colours, build unusual textures with felt fibres and further embellishment, and manipulate the felt to produce three-dimensional pieces. With sample projects that illustrate the main techniques, Felt to Stitch will address the main elements of design in felt: color - blending commercially dyed fibers; dyeing processes for wool fibers; applying color as surface design; line and shape - methods for creating clear outlines in felt; pre-felts for use on inlay, applique and mosaic; texture - combining felt and fabric - Nuno felt, embellishing with other fibres; Form/three-dimensional felt: seamless hollow forms; and, other techniques - multi-layered felts, low relief, and webs/grids.
How to Make Felt: Create Hats, Bags, Rugs, Masks and Much More  by Anne Belgrave   $17.95	Review: For structural felt, all you need is unspun wool, soap, water, friction, and some simple equipment found around the house, and this book. The author shows examples of a number of types of wool and how each felts so you can try llama, camel, alpaca, and other animal, vegetable, or man-made fibers. Try inlay, mosaics, or quilted layers; embellish with hand or machine embroidery. It's all fun and easy. This profusely illustrated, introductory book will guide you on your way to creating your own pieces and shapes.
PROJECTS FOR ALPACA AND LLAMA: by Chris Switzer $16.00	Crochet, Felting, Knitting, Knitting-Felting, Locker Hooking, Machine Knitting, Weaving
Knit & Felt Books	My granddaughter's purse was simple to knit and then wash in the washing machine following instructions in Knit One Felt Too.
BAGS: A Knitter's Dozen     by Elaine Rowley       $ 5.95	Softcover Pages: 54 Size: 7½" x 7½"
FELTING BAGS & HATS: with Nenah Galati DVD by Nenah Galati  DVD                    $23.99	Step by Step demonstrations and written instructions in knitting then felting bags and hats.  The dvd is 65 minutes. It includes gauge/formula, multiple bags, hats, handles, and the felting process.
Great Felted Bags   $ 5.99	Pages 22. Review: Great felted bags, sacks & carry-alls. 12 patterns in all. Bonus Learn to Felt instructions included.
FELT CRAFT
THE CUTE BOOK by Aranzi Aronzo         Price:  $12.95	Category:  Felting   ISBN:  1932234683  Cover:  Hardcover  Pages:  47  Size:  6'' X 8 1/2''    These little guys are 20 felt mascots you can cut, paste, sew, stick together and I don't know why you couldn't needlefelt them together. But if you need a mascot, here is how to make one.
FABULOUS FELT Over 30 Exquisite Ideas for Sophisticated Home décor and Stunning Accessories   by Sophie Bester                                    $19.99	Softcover 48  pages  8 1/2'' X 11''  Felt is surprisingly simple to work with and allows you to create both traditional and modern projects, all with a timeless air. Within the pages of Fabulous Felt readers will find 32 stunning projects including photo frames, photo album covers, cushions, rugs, Christmas decorations and children's gifts. Featured styles range from rich oriental and mouthwatering fruity colors to chic neutrals and pretty pastels. A techniques section and clear step-by-step instructions allow readers to produce fabulous results whatever their skill levels.   From Pat:   This has beautiful projects. This isn't a make felt book, it is making adult items with felt. I think some Christmas present are going to be made from these ideas. It just makes your mouth water.

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