#felt making

[hogwartiandecor]

My latest hat, Merino wool again made with the wet felt resist method.....and seed bead sewn on the little felt balls tucked into the curl.

[alientiime]

progress on hirogaru sky ribbon felts, doing the same stitch (yellow edge around the wing) makes me go UAHGG so i sewed every other ‘ribbon’ part first. i did realise what i shouldve been doing to keep the edge sewing more neat but i’ll implement that next time

[parzivalleknight]

Michael Mell (aka my sON)

I spent a fuckin WEEK makin this lil sad boy and I love him. (I also now have the BMC Original Cast Recording CD, which I totally didn’t fuckin blare in my mums car alone and sing Michael In The Bathroom till my throat was raw from hitting all the notes..And screaming the notes bUT THATS NOT IMPORTANT LMAO)

Anyway, I love my boy even if when making him I stabbed myself about 40 fucking times with a needle.

[nazilak]

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[dknuth]

Song Kul to Kochkor 

We awoke to clear skies and frost on the grass. The sky had been clear overnight with a sky full of stars, but I found that I can no longer see them clearly, a major disappointment. The dogs of the camp have been trained to keep the animals out of the camp. In the middle of the night I woke to barking and someone yelling “Help, Help” One of the women had apparently startled a dog and it was being agressive. But the camp owner got out and called off the dog before I could find my way out of the dark yurt. In the morning one of the horses had found where some of the leftovers from the night before had been dumped and was chowing down. This was apparently closer to camp than the dogs allowed and there was one dog on each side barking furiously to no avail. The horse ignored them and kept on eating.

By the time we were ready to leave the skies were clouding up, but no rain came.

We headed across the steppe and down the valley and back to the main road then back to Kochkor.

There we visited a cooperative that teaches felt making. We got a lesson on traditional felt making techniques.

When we stopped in a town there was a local market and some of us identified watermelons as a purchase. We bought two large watermelons for later consumption.

There are a lot of cemeteries along the road and it's a good opportunity to see the local style of gravestones and monuments.

We drove along the south shore of Issyk Kul a large saline lake. At 5,000 feet it qualifies as an alpine lake, the second largest after Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. Apparently the north shore has a lot of resorts, but the south shore is pretty empty. We stopped briefly at a beach that was almost empty, which was surprising as it was Independence Day for Kyrgyzstan and so a holiday.

[dislocatedchristians]

Have you ever wanted to set up your own business and make a difference? Four of our women have been learning to make felt items and are in need of a means to sell them. Is anyone reading this able to help, perhaps you’d like to have your own small business and help needy women at the same time? Could you import these items to the UK or USA and sell them at craft fairs? Let us know if you are able to help, it would make a huge difference to the lives of these women.

Entrepreneurs wanted Have you ever wanted to set up your own business and make a difference? Four of our women have been learning to make felt items and are in need of a means to sell them.

[handmadeshopy-blog]

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