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Found this website with these amazing felt dolls – I’m so impressed with the amount of detail in these beautiful little dolls. She is a true artist.
Proving that I can actually manage to warp a loom, here are a couple of pics of my floor loom, currently dressed with mercerized cotton in the warp. I’m using non-mercerized in the weft and a broken twill pattern – it’s looking pretty good. I think. (ignore the really messy craft area – these photos embarassed me into cleaning it up today…)
In my opinion, this is one of the great mysteries of the world…. I actually fear finishing the piece I currently have on my floor loom because that means I’ll have to go through the process of warping again. Oh well, practice makes perfect, I guess.
This is an interesting video outlining how to warp a loom that I found on Youtube. I thought there would be more videos like this online but I haven’t found many. If you have one, let me know.
Got a new toy last week – a needle felting machine. So much fun. It’s completely addictive. So far, I’ve just been playing about but I can see all sorts of interesting uses for this thing in my future. Here are a couple of samples – just overlaying fabric on wool foundation. The first uses all cotton fabric and the second uses a blend – definitely better to use all natural fabrics. 
Now, I’m mulling over how to combine this with weaving…
Craftster.org is just a cool place to hang out and see what other crafty people are up to.
