Barby Anderson's Creations

My First Scarf!

Hello Friends,

I participated in a monthly felting challenge at The Felting Forum and also took a Seaweed Scarf class there with Carlen Lesley. So I wanted to share my results. This is my scarf made in Carlen's class, which I submitted to the challenge.

I didn't have anyone here at the time to take my picture with my scarf, so Mr Mummy, from our Halloween decor, modeled it for me. Not so sure he really liked it though!!! Ha! Ha!

Please disregard the date stamped on the pics. I don't know how to change or remove the date stamp.

I would highly recommend you check out The Felting Forum. They have wonderful online classes, whereby very talented artists, teach and share their knowledge and techniques with their students. Barby is also an instructor there. It's a wonderful place to learn all kinds of felting!!!

Till next time,

Happy Felting!!!

Needle Felting 101 on YouTube

Hello Friends,
I found this Grrreat video tutorial on needle felting on YouTube!!!
This is offered by Ricë Freeman-Zachery. She has her own blog which you can find right here!



I hope you enjoy it!!!
Happy Felting!

FREE Needle Felted Eyeballs Tutorial

Hi Needle Felters!

Got another FREE felting tutorial for ya. This one is from Regina Rioux Gonzalez of http://www.monstercrochet.com/ . I must give my friend Linda Walsh of The Best Free Craft Articles Blog credit for this one. I first saw it on her wonderful blog and got hers and Regina's permission to share it with all of you on my blog. You can visit Linda's blog here: http://freecraftarticles.blogspot.com/ . Her blog is just Super!!!

This FREE tutorial is called: Needle Felting LadyLinoleum Style. You can find the complete instructions with pictures on her blog here: http://tinyurl.com/24so9g

I think wool is such a fabby medium to work with. So much diversity can be obtained with wool as our art medium. So many Wonderful items can be created with it.

Regina starts with a small puff of wool:

And ends up with these cool monster eyes!!!

You can visit Regina's website here: http://www.monstercrochet.com/ and her Blog here: http://monstercrochet.blogspot.com/

Let Regina know how much you liked her tutorial and that you found her thru Needle Felting Fans Blog!!!

Have Fun needle felting! :-)

Needle Felted Hats!

Hello Friends,

I found these Gorgeous needle felted Hats at: http://www.highlandfelting.com/hats.htm

Pat also has needle felting hat kits:

I Love this!

You can purchase the kits thru her website: http://www.highlandfelting.com/index.htm

or thru her ebay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Patz-Felting-and-Fibre-Supplies

I just had to purchase one. The kits come with everything we need to make a hat to include the needles, wool, instructions, and a hat form. Pat said the hat form can be re-used to make 10-12 hats before needing to replace it. I ordered mine with the denim wool and ordered red wool from her to make a red one too. I decided I wanted to be part of the 'Red Hat' society. :-) I am so excited!! I love trying new patterns and techniques and this will be so cool because I will be able to wear my artwork!!!

Pat is in Australia, but shipping was very reasonable and she was very fast to respond to all my emails and questions. I really enjoyed my shopping experience with her and look forward to making my very first needle felted hat!!!

Thank-you Pat for all your help. :-)

If you visit her website or ebay store, please let Pat know that you found her thru Needle Felting Fans Blog and that Linda sent you. :-)

Ebay Items For Valentine's Day!

Hello Friends,

Barby has listed 2 New needle felted items in her ebay store. One is a Valentine's Rose Pin and the other one is a sweet little baby mouse on a pink Valentine's pastry. They are so lovely and either one would be a joy to give or recieve this Valentine's Day!

Take a peek...

Barby Anderson is a very talented artist and pattern designer. Her wonderful creations are made with the finest of materials and explicitly detailed. I promise you will not be dissappointed. Her lovely creations are a Joy to own and make Wonderful additions to your collection of fine handmade items.

Please visit Barby's ebay store to see these, plus many other items she has for sale.

http://stores.ebay.com/Quilt-Patterns-and-Wool-Designs

Don't forget to tell her NeedleFeltingFans.com sent you!!!

:-)

Felted Soap!!!

Hello Needle Felters!

I found another FREE felting tutorial for us. Amy and Andrea Mielke of http://www.mielkesfarm.com/ has put together a Wonderful tutorial for felting SOAP!

Who ever heard of felted soap??? Well when I heard about it, I had to go check it out. Well what I discovered is that felted soap makes a great scrubby, loofah and washcloth with soap all in one.

Granted this is actually wet felting, still it is a Very Cool Idea!!! So here's the link to the tutorial:

http://www.mielkesfiberarts.com/felt_soap.htm

Amy and Andrea have great pictures showing step by step how to do it. Starting with all your supplies, your wool and bar of soap:

You will end up with this:

Amy and Andrea gave me permission to share this with you. Thank-you Amy and Andrea!!!

You can visit their website and learn even more about felting here:

http://www.mielkesfarm.com/

In browsing their website you will notice that they carry everything we need for felting; needles, wool, books, classes, etc. Please visit them and let them know you found them thru www.needlefeltingfans.blogspot.com/ or www.needlefeltingfans.com/ .

I sure wish I lived closer to them so that I could take one of their classes. I haven't found any classes in my area, but it would be so nice to be able to attend a class and participate in person, learning this craft. Amy and Andrea are in Wisconsin and I am in Alabama. BooHoo!

But if any of you Wonderfully Kind Thoughtful Generous folks out there in cyber world would like to sponser me for a trip to Wisconsin to attend one of their classes, just let me know!!! :-)

Hope you enjoy this FREE felting tutorial. I would love to see pictures of your felted soap. I'm going to make some and will post my felted soap here on my blog, so check back for that update!

March of the Mousekins

(Click picture to see it full size)

Look at this adoreable photo brush made using Barby's white needle felted mice! Suzi Wollman of http://www.suziwollman.com/ made this and sent it to us as a gift. Isn't it adoreable!?! Suzi makes lots of photo brush sets and scrapbooking sets too. She is a digital artist and designer.

If you would like to see more of her art, you can visit her blog at the above link. She also has an etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5239753
Suzi has also created art work for http://www.faithfullyyours.net/ (under the name "Designed for Him").

I read her bio on her blog and would like to share this part of Suzi's bio with you.....

Who I am
First and foremost, I am a Christian. When He asked, “Who shall we send, and who will go for us?” I answered, “Here am I. Send me.” And He did. Until three weeks ago, I lived in the city of Simferopol, Crimea, in the southernmost part of Ukraine. My husband, Jeff, and I have two little dogs and we serve Christ in whatever He calls us to do, whether here in the US or abroad, including helping with a small church called Zhivaya Loza (the Living Vine).
I am also the mother of five wonderful, grown children, four of whom are married and of those four, three have given us eight awesome grandchildren. We homeschooled our kids on up through high school, and they have all become our best friends.

Isn't that beautiful? It really touched me and warmed my heart. We are so blessed to have such lovely people like Suzi and her family sharing this world with us. Thank-you Suzi for the caring, the kindness and the love you share with people God brings across your path. And Thank-you for the beautiful photo brush you made us. It is adoreable!

Spiders For Sale

Hello Friends,

No it's not Halloween....yet! But I am selling Spiders! Want some? I've got giant hairy ones and itsy bitsy spiders. Better hurry up and send in your order before they're all sold!!! ;-)

And if you believe that....I've got ocean front property in Arizona that I'll sell you as well. Hee! Hee!

Ok so what's this about? you ask....

Well we have had torrential downpours here in SE Alabama and the spiders have come out of the trees, bushes, sky, (wherever they come from) and have decided to take up residence in my home.

Oh my, Oh my, I've been wringing my hands and spraying spider spray till I'm about to colapse for lack of fresh air. Whew!!! Called hubby at work, and cried 'Help, we've been invaded!

Well Thank Gooodness for my wonderful hubby who rescued his damsel in distress and sent in the army with heavy artillery (Cook's Pest Control :-)

I'm telling you I was ready to evacuate! I don't mind spiders outside minding their own business, but I don't want them in my house! I guess it was all the rain we've had, but I just know we've never had this happen before. They came with all their relatives, friends, and aquaintances too. I've been freaking out!

Well Cook's fumigated the house and put down what they call 'spider traps' (they looked like glue boards to me) and said we had to stay out of the house for a few hours. I said "No problem. We'll stay out till tomorrow." We've got a place up at the lake about an hours drive away, so that's where we are now as I write this. Sure hope when we go back home the spiders will be back outside where they belong.

In the meantime ..... Want some Spiders??? Just let me know and I'll send them right over. :-0 LOL!!!

Have any of you ever experienced anything like this before?

NFF Photos!

Hello Needle Felters!

Got some great photos for you from the members of NFF (Needle Felting Fun Yahoo group...see the link on the right sidebar to visit this group).

I tell you these people GOT TALENT!!!

Karamel by Litaashley28 .......................Reindeer by Leafdancer2002


Yorkie by Hilde................ Gray Horse by Hilde


Blue Bear by threethornys..... Little Love Carp by bluwoodruff

Piggy Sue by countrycreekbears..... Cat by truecanadiangoatgirl

This is a very small sampling of all the photos available on that site for us to enjoy. Please go check them out for yourself. :-)

I'm so excited to share these photos with you. I hope you will visit the NFF group and let them know Linda @ NeedleFeltingFans.com sent you. :-)