Needle-Felting Magic: Easy Machine Techniques and Projects (That Patchwork Place)
By Margo Duke
Take the traditional craft of needle felting and turn it into an adventure on your sewing machine! In this ultimate guide to "painting" with fiber, you'll learn to use wool roving to create incredibly soft, lush, and tactile projects--all by machine.
Amazon Sales Rank: #239784 in Books Published on: 2007-11-05 Original language: English Number of items: 1 Binding: Paperback 32 pages
About the Author Home: Mt. Airy, Maryland Known affectionately in fiber-art circles as "Her Majesty Margo," Margo Duke designs machine needle felting projects for her company of the same name. She is also a teacher for Baby Lock.
Highly recommended! I've lost track of how many new needle-felting books have come out in the last year but this one really stands out among them. The first thing that tipped me off that there was some new and fun things inside its pages was the cover. A beautiful mix of textures and color and I hadn't even opened the book yet! Margo does a nice job of walking the beginner needle felter through the basics but even an experienced felter will find plenty to be inspired by in these pages. The book opens with a review of materials and includes a needle felting machine comparison chart. There are five projects to get you started ranging from a bag, journal cover and scarf to a very new and unique way to display photographs. My personal favorite is the fluff and fancy pin. I can see making a lot of these to embellish everything from bags and hats to scarves and sweaters. All of the projects are easy to understand with clearly written instructions and diagrams. Although this book is only 32 pages there's plenty in here to be inspired by. A Couple of Good Ideas I have been seeking some needle felting books which provide unique ideas. This only partially meets the need. It does discuss various needle felting machine options, both felting specific and sewing machines which have attachments (not all do and those which do are rather costly)which is useful if you are not familiar with them. She talks about dying wool with kool aid which can be fun. Most of the projects are too cutsey. Altho she does have a nice idea for creating a needle felted frame which I expect to try. If you want a small book with some good basic information, this could work. If you are looking for some exciting ideas which either stand alone or can be incorporated into other projects, you should look elsewhere. Terrific Book! Beautiful Projects, easy to create - love it!!! First of all if you have not explored the art of needle felting, you need to get this book. Margo's things are GORGEOUS!! They really are unlike anything I have ever seen. This author (through the book) has been my new "muse" to help inspire me to create some really beautiful projects. I have always been interested in needlefelting but needed some direction or a book to inspire me and give me ideas. I have had the the Babylock Embellisher for about a year and there really hasn't been any needle felting books like this up until now. Unlike many other crafts, needle felting by machine is easy and fun and best part is that - THERE ARE NO RULES!! If you don't like something, you rip it off...if somthing doesn't look quite right - take it off and place in another area. It's very therapeutic - and you can totally get "lost" in it. It's very simple once you get the techniques down (which takes about 5 minutes to learn). If I can do this, ANYONE can do this. I found the projects in this book very easy to understand and inspirational, and I will definitely be able to carry the techniques from this book into other projects that I plan to tackle. From the book projects, I have already made the fancy pin and put them on some slippers and gave as a birthday gift and plan on working on the journal cover next. Great book!!!!
