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Needle felting is a simple and inspiring technique that you can use to add color and texture to your wool projects. Needle Felting, by Linda Lenich and Jennifer Kooy Zoeterman, offers a complete introduction to the hottest craze in wool crafting. Try your poke-and-punch skills in five projects.

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Needle Felting
Simple Techniques, Beautiful Projects

Authors: Linda Lenich and Jennifer Kooy Zoeterman
Pages: 32
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11 "
Publisher: Martingale Company
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4Q0901
Weight: 0.5 lb

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Get a complete introduction to the hottest craze in wool crafting—needle felting. Try your poke-and-punch skills in five projects.

Follow chapters on tools, supplies and basic techniques; add more dimension with appliqué and embroidery

Small, simple projects—most shown in two colorways—include a beginner bookmark, a journal cover and a memento pillow

Discover layering, twisting, color-blending and shading techniques

Get a folk-art look with "touch me" appeal!

Author s Jennifer Kooy Zoeterman & Linda Lenich About the Authors

Learn the rules and then bend them. This is Jennifer's philosophy concerning sewing and quilting.

Having stitched for most of her life, Jennifer is known for never following a pattern to the letter but changing it in some way to make it her own.

While teaching quilters for 10 years, she helped students learn the correct techniques but then encouraged them to put their own creative spin on their project.

Jennifer combined her love of sewing with her imaginative outlook to co-create Pure Wool Inc., a resource for needle-felting fibers, supplies and patterns. Additional designs she created with her business partner, Linda Lenich, appear in Hooked on Wool (Martingale Company, 2006).

Jennifer's creative viewpoint also inspires another of her hobbies: decorating. Thriftstore adventures result in fantastic finds, and she reclaims items for everyday use and unusual home decor.

She lives with her husband, Tim, in a Chicago suburb. Together they raised their now-adult daughters, Sara and Rachel.

Linda believes that there must be a sewing gene passed down to her through her maternal DNA, because she comes from a long succession of women who loved to sew. Her great grandmother was a fine seamstress; her grandmother loved to knit, crochet, embroider and sew; and her mother sewed everything from her own wedding dress to awnings for her home. Linda was born in Chicago and raised with the sound of her mother's sewing machine.

It was on her honeymoon, 27 years ago, that Linda and her husband, Michael, visited her first quilt shop. Later that summer, Linda read all she could find on quilting at her local library, joined a quilt guild and took many workshops and classes. Eventually, Linda found herself teaching quilting classes and working for a local quilt shop. That is where she met her friend and future business partner, Jennifer Zoeterman. Together they have fun creating new needle-felting supply company, Pure Wool, Inc. Linda and Michael lead a happy and simple life in a southern suburb of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface 6

Introduction 7

Needle-Felting Tools and Supplies 8

Wool Fleece 8

Background Fabric 8

Foam Work Surface 8

Hand-Felting Needle 8

Sewing Machine Needle-Felting Attachment 9

Techniques in Needle-Felting 9

Positioning Wool Fleece 9

Basic Needle-Felting 10

Creating Basic Shapes with Wool Fleece 10

Wool Fleece Twisting Techniques 11

Color-Blending Techniques 11

Dimension and Texture Techniques 12

Finishing 13

Wool Appliqué 13

Choosing Wool Fabric 13

Preparing Wool 13

Wool Rickrack 14

Cutting Free-Form Strips 14

Freezer-Paper Templates 14

Stitching Wool Appliqués 15

Projects

Save-My-Place Bookmark 16

My Journal Book Cover 19

Memento Pillow 22

Spring Friends Candle Rest 25

Seasons Table Mat 28

Resources 31

About the Authors 32

Instruction Page

Linda Lenich

Seasons Table Mat

Spring Friends Candle Rest

Memnto Pillow

My Journal Book Cover