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FREE GUIDE TO MACHINE NEEDLE FELTING FOR QUILTERS 1 Q U I LT I N G D A I LY. C O M
So many fibers, so little time! I used to look at my little bits of
this and that—fancy fibers, silk and wool roving, hand-dyed gauze, threads, and vintage lace—and wonder what I could do with them. They were too good
to throw away, too small to be used. Or so I thought, until I learned how to do needle felting with a machine.
Suddenly, I could use those fiber bits to create unique pieces of fabric, embellishments, backgrounds and more. Machine needle felting projects took over my studio: I was hooked.
In our Free Guide to Machine Needle Felting for Quilters, you will learn from three pros how to design, create, and embellish machine needle-felting projects and incorporate them into your fiber art.
The first machine needle-felting how-to comes from Jane LaFazio, who has taught many workshops on needle felting. In “Needle-Felted & Hand-Stitched Fiber Art: Working in a Series,” she shares advice on how to use the needle-felting machine, how to store your supplies, and step-by-step instructions for creating your felted art.
FREE GUIDE TO MACHINE
NEEDLE FELTING
FOR QUILTER SEDITORIAL DIRECTOR Vivika Hansen
DeNegre ONLINE EDITOR Cate Prato
CREATIVE SERVICES DIVISION ART DIRECTOR Larissa Davis PHOTOGRAPHER Larry Stein
Projects and information are for inspiration and personal use only. F+W Media, Inc. is not responsible for any liability arising from errors, omissions, or mistakes contained in this eBook, and readers should proceed cautiously, especially with respect to technical information. F+W Media grants permission to photocopy any patterns published in this issue for personal use only.
Next, in “Stepping Out: Take Machine Needle Felting to the Next Level,” Leslie Tucker Jenison explains how to incorporate needle felting into a small, stitched quilt, using Timtex as a foundation.
Finally, in “Field of Flowers,” Pokey Bolton shows you how to design a landscape composition for needle felting using photo-editing software. Then she walks you through the needle-felting process.
Our Free Guide to Machine Needle Felting for Quilters will help you create well-composed designs that make use of all those fabulous fibers we love so much.
Warmly,
ViVika Hansen Denegre
Editorial Director
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FREE GUIDE TO MACHINE NEEDLE FELTING FOR QUILTERS 3 Q U I LT I N G D A I LY. C O M
hand-dyed sheersI’ve been enamored with silk gauze for a long time, and have dyed it with tea, coffee, and rust, but I only recently thought to dye it with a variety of colors. I use Adirondack Color Wash, which comes in spray bottles. These acidfree, nontoxic, and waterbased dyes are perfect for use on paper and fabric, but are also very staining so be sure to wear gloves. Here’s the process I use for dyeing sheer fabrics.
1. Begin by covering the surface of a foam core board (or any flat, moveable surface) with freezer paper in order to protect it from the dyes. This board will be used to carry the wet dyed fabrics to another place to dry.
2. Wet the fabric with water and then spray it with the dyes. With gloved hands, squish the fabric to distribute the dye—but not evenly. I like to use an array of colors for each color set since I want the fabric to be variegated. Let the fabric dry completely, and iron it to heat set the dye.
Color I recommend working in analogous colors when dyeing your sheers. Analogous colors are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, like yellow and red, green and blue, and blue and purple.
For my “Rainbow Series,” I colored the sheers in three color groups using the following dye colors, creating quilts in each of these color ranges:
Yellow to red: butterscotch, terra cota, cranberry, magenta, red pepperBlue to green: butterscotch, lettuce, pesto, streamBlue to purple: stream, denim, magenta, eggplant
FREE GUIDE TO MACHINE NEEDLE FELTING FOR QUILTERS 7 Q U I LT I N G D A I LY. C O M
tipVarying the width of the zigzag stitch adds texture and interest. It is best to try this on a practice surface first to become comfortable with the technique.
FREE GUIDE TO MACHINE NEEDLE FELTING FOR QUILTERS 10 Q U I LT I N G D A I LY. C O M
• Digital camera, computer with photoediting software, and a printer
• Small piece of muslin or felt, painted or handdyed in colors that match the fields in your photo (In this example I painted a 7" × 9" piece of muslin in various shades of greens, light browns, and yellows.)
• Piece of WonderUnder® cut the same size as muslin or felt
• Fabric scissors
• Iron
• Needlefelting machine
• Scraps of sheer fabrics in the colors of your flowers
• Bits of synthetic sheers, tulles, handdyed cheesecloth or scrims, and silk roving (I particularly like the “Strata” packs by Oliver Twists for needle felting because these packs offer a sampling of handdyed silk fibers, including tussah, throwster’s waste, and degummed cocoons in coordinating colors.)
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