Mongolian Felted Tent or Yurt

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Beginners Workshop; Sculptural Felting - As the Crowe Felts

Felting Class

This one-day beginners workshop is a complete introduction to the tools and processes of needle-felting. Class included hands on practice, discussion and demonstrations. Participants will complete a small project to get familiar with needle felting and leave with the skills to create a sculpture of their own. Materials will be provided. Enrollment limited to 8 students.

Upcoming sessions:

Saturday February 18 2012 10am-4pm

Location: My home

68 Pine St. Peterborough NH 03458

603-345-7842 terri@crowefence.com

Tuition is $60 plus materials (usually around $20)

You will go home with neddles and a mat for future

use and a finished project .

Call or e-mail to sign up

Lunch is included for $10/ soup and Salad/Bread

Or bring your own

RSVP by February 9th 2012

This beautiful little dove came to be this winter because of a little visitor we had. Earlier this same day we were watching a Pileated Woodpecker out the livingroom window. I am always amazed at their size and beauty. They are also quite skittish so we didn't get to watch him for long.
Later in the day when my son Reuben yelled to me about a bird I thought is was about the woodpecker we had seen earlier. He yelled and asked me to come take a look, he said, "What is that a chicken"? Now mind you Reuben grew up on a farm and their were chickens everywhere. I looked out the window and waddling up our walkway was a white dove!
Our neighbor has a Dove Cote next door and this poor little dove had lost his way. The dove walked all the way up the walkway and looked in the door. Then he tried flying up into the window were our cat Patch was watching intently. Then he proceeded to walk to the other front door and repeat the whole thing. Rick followed him out as he walked out onto the lawn and he gently herded the bird toward the back of the house. The weird thing was other than the one time of trying to fly into the window he walked everywhere! I went to the back of the house to the three-season porch/bunny hutch. About this time our bunny named "Rabbit" a Lyons head rabbit noticed the dove and I would say by his reaction he thought it was a raptor! He was running as fast as he could and thumping to frighten away this creature that was surely going to eat him. I went out on the porch and opened the slider in the direction on the dove, low and behold he came right in. We cornered the bird, called the neighbors and returned the bird to his home. It was quite the adventure. So I was inspired to make this dove. I also gave him to the neighbors as a gift, they wouldn't have to worry about this one getting away.

This Beautiful pillow and two more just like it are in a shop in Camden Maine. www.mainelavenderstore.com Please go to Lorie's blog and see their beautiful Lavender farm and shop. http://mainelavender.businesscatalyst.com/blog

So last night my husband Rick cut down these antique mallets for platforms for my dancing pigs. Now they really look like they are dancing up a storm. The last two for this series are in the works, just wait and see, I love these guys!

These are some of the most resent pillows I made from a beautiful but worn vintage wool camp blanket. I found a wonderful source for the down inserts too. I half been sewing since the age of 8 and I never realized that there was quite an art to sewing a basic pillow. As you can see in the photo my pillows are quite square, but the sewing of the pillows is not. I actually cut in with a presice measurement so that I don't end up with what is referred to as "dog ears". Very undesirable in the world of pillow making.

My First Blog of 2012

I am starting of 2012 with so many ideas for felting that I get overwhelmed in thought. I don't have enough time to do everything I would like, so I have to pick and choose. Of course I am making my sculptures from wool, but recently I starting making pillows. Some are wet felted and some are made from vintage and antique wool camp blankets. I think it is so nice to continue the life of a worn out blanket in the form of a pillow. These blankets are so beautiful. I haven't seen anything being made the same way these days.

I love working with wool in all forms. Raw, Roving, batting, yarn, blankets. What an incredible material it is.

I am putting together a collection of items so I can be juried by the League of NH craftsman. I am making a series of dancing pigs, so much fun to come up with the dances my pigs are doing. I tried to do a John Travolta but I wasn't happy with the results.