Make a mini Sheepie
http://www.fleecedog.com/ |
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Neat!  |
| I'm tempted to try it!!!!!!!!!! |
| Okay, so who will try this first? Someone HAS to! |
I'm saving my Chewie hair to make yarn  . |
| Everytime I brush Laika I think should I save this...
I never do. What is the next step do you take it some where to get spinned is that the word. Is that the next step? I would love a Laika touque! |
| I have seen these animals on ebay, sold for HUNDREDS of dollars. Last fall there was a felted Maltese that sold for over 900.00!!!!
So it might be worth getting good at. |
| JEESH are you joking! ahaha!! I am quiting my job
wow that is crazy! |
| UK is only place to get the book?? |
| Yes, it needs to go somewhere to get washed, and spun into yarn. I don't know how to do that part. I may blend it with wool so it doesn't take so long to collect!
I have mittens and scarf I knitted from a blend of wool, angora and llama. It is a light/medium blue. I LOVE it. It was also very expensive to buy.  |
There are a number of books out there that give instructions on felting 3-D critters. I've done a lot of needle-felting, and its a simple process, but VERY labor-intensive! Even when you can charge hundreds of $$ for a felted figure, (which I do) you are STILL talking minimum-wage!!  |
| My m-i-l has a spinning wheel and cards to make yarn. She has tried to work with dog hair before and found it difficult.
After washing the dog hair in shampoo (she put it in an old stocking to prevent loss of the valuable hair), pat the hair (still in a stocking) with a towel to absorb as much water as possible and let air dry. The cards, which look like the grooming slickers, are used to get the hair going in the same direction. Basically you pulling the slickers in opposite directions to force the hair to line up. If you are too rough, the hair will break. The longer the hair, the better it is for spinning. To spin it, you take a small clump of hair and twist it together, adding new hair constantly (but in an even maner - HA!). Maudie's hair was 8 to 12 inches, which was a good length fr spinning, but it was so fine that it didn't want to stay together. A mix with something else might have worked better. And my m-i-l doesn't spin often enough to be really good at it. I have been thinking about getting the book since I read this about it. |
spacegirl21 wrote: Everytime I brush Laika I think should I save this...
That's so funny! I always think "hurrah! where's the trashcan?" |
| You can also find information on felted animal on the internet. If you want to see some cute one go to ebay and search felted dogs. There is a paticularly cute poodle there now. |
| The "A" website that I will no longer use is going to offer the book in March. The other big bookstores should be following suit soon. |
| I bought the "Fleece Dog" book after reading the article about felted dogs in Bark magazine.
I sort of regret not buying one of the actual kits advertised on the Japanese site which includes the book. The whole "how to" section in the Fleece Dog book covers about 8 pages (pp. 49-56 and page 78 ). The first part of the book (up to page 49) is pictures of 20 breeds demonstrated and a "fleece color chart" for each breed which is pretty useless (aka "filler"). The last part of the book (pp 57-77) is a "how to" page on each of the 20 breeds covered in the book. Most of them start off with "Make the body, legs and ears with a mixture of xyz fleece. Join the parts together." The diagram showing the proportions (in actual size) are good, but all things considered, I was disappointed in the book. I've never felted anything before, so I think I'm going to need to read a more detailed "how to" book before making a dog. In the long run, I bet it would be cheaper and more useful. Or, it would have been even better to get the book from the library and copy the 8 relevant pages! By the way, there's no OES in the book. The closest thing is a Ctalan Sheepdog, which is sitting so incorporating topline and the OES' pearshape is something you'll have to figure out anyway! It's a pretty sparse book for the money, especially having ordered it from the UK! Gloomy Gus |
| Thank you gloomy. You just saved me some money. |
| http://www.yarnies.com/Needle%20Felting.htm
This site has lots of needle felting "stuff" |
| There's an ebay seller who sells a how to book that she made herself (she's got examples of soooooo many breeds), and I've had her as a favorite seller since i opened my account (many many years ago), so I know her info is quality stuff. I've been thinking about trying it, but she makes everything look easier than it really is. |
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