- Contents:Basics -- Feltmaking tools and supplies -- Layout and felting -- 3-D basics -- Dyeing -- Carding -- Flat braiding -- Projects / Designs by Chad -- Airy fairy scarf -- Mr. Saturday night -- Boa boa -- Bark scarf -- Blackbeard -- Inge's fancy -- Dread nauts -- Lily pad wrap -- Magic muffler -- Bubble boa -- Designs by Jorie -- Dip dyed party scarf -- Fallen leaves collar -- Father's Day braided muffler -- Honeycomb scarf -- Granny Warner's lace shawl -- Wedding stole -- Lei collar -- Link muffler series -- Chalk drawings muffler -- Snow people scarf -- Rainbow ribbons.

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, Feltmaking 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.

This fabulous guide is brimming with ideas for recycling and restyling your aging wool knitwear--simply by felting, cutting, and combining them in innovative ways. Find out everything you need to get started, from choosing the right old sweaters to the simplest, most reliable method of felting. Photographs display piecing and cutting techniques for felted sweaters, machine and hand embroidery for added interest, and sewing techniques to finish off each project. Imaginative embellishments are also here, including fabulous felted flowers and three kinds of buttonholes. With more than 30 projects for capes, vests, shawls, slippers, scarves, hats, tote bags, purses, jewelry, jackets, and even a cute dog sweater. Crafters will soon be felting away!

Eddie just wants to mind his own business on Christmas Eve. So he’ll be sleeping on the street tonight—so what? He can handle the cold. But of course some obnoxious do-gooder from the shelter across town sees a homeless veteran and wants to earn herself a gold star by helping him out. She’s hopelessly naive, the poor thing. She doesn’t understand that there are monsters on the streets, even on Christmas Eve. If he were a younger man, he’d take this opportunity to add another body to his collection. But he doesn’t do that kind of thing anymore. He’ll have to find another way to scare her off. Too bad she’s as persistent as she is annoying. If it’s the only way to get rid of her, he might just have to let her do something nice for him after all. This short story is 3900 words long. It is also available in Santa’s Rejects, a collection of offbeat Christmas stories.

A guide to felting demonstrates how different fabrics react to the process of transforming wool yarn into a dense, textured material, and includes sample swatches, patterns, stitches, and techniques for creating mosaics, cables, and lace.

The nuno technique involves felting wool fiber through sheer, loosely woven cloth so the wool fiber can migrate through the weave and become entangled on both sides of the fabric, thus creating a new kind of textile... [The author] explores principles like shape, color, and texture, examining how these concepts can make your nuno pieces as simple or complex as a painting or drawing. Includes a gallery of ideas for projects--P. [4] of cover.

'Nicky Epstein's Signature Scarves' delivers what knitting (and Nicky's) fans have been after - her hallmark embelished style applied to the simple scarf. Inside there are an array of patterns designed to delight and inspire.