I Felt Awesome: Tips and Tricks for 35+ Needle-Poked Projects [Paperback]

Moxie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 23, 2010

It's OK to play with needles

I Felt Awesome shows you how to turn traditional needle-felting techniques into irreverent felted fun. Moxie's playful and cheeky sense of humor will needle you into taking your felting beyond traditional motifs, and decorate yourself and your home with feisty designs of wearable, playable and coffee table-worthy objects.

Get started with:

• Step-by-step instructions for 35 projects, including a felted spike bracelet, bendy and boingy toys and larger-than-life home décor featuring fruit and more.
  
  
• Traditional needle-felting techniques lay the groundwork for uncommon materials like magnets, plastic toy parts and bendable wires.
  
  
• Wool roving and felting needles are all you need to get started—helpful tips show handy shortcuts that still produce fantastic results.

Get friendly with fiber, and tell all your friends I Felt Awesome."

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Moxie enjoys conceptual art, hi-jinx and/or shenanigans, and making wool do impossible things. Moxie would sleep only once every few days because when she's awake, she gets to make choices. Her work has been shown in galleries in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and more. She's taught thousands of people to needle felt in dozens of settings, including the Frye Art Museum, Urban Craft Uprising, and the Maker Faire Bay Area. Moxie spends her free time not cleaning up after herself and writing quirky paragraphs about herself in the third person. She lives in Seattle with her unbelievably patient husband and the two best cats in the known universe. Find Moxie online at madebymoxie.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books; 1 edition (December 23, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600617921
• ISBN-13: 978-1600617928
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.4 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #875,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Moxie enjoys conceptual art, hi-jinx and/or shenanigans, and making wool do impossible things. If she had her way, Moxie would sleep only once every few days because when she's awake, she gets to make choices.

Her work has been shown in galleries in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and more. She's taught thousands of people to needle felt in dozens of settings, including the Frye Art Museum, Urban Craft Uprising, and the Maker Faire Bay Area.

Moxie spends her free time not cleaning up after herself and writing quirky paragraphs about herself in the third person. She lives in Seattle with her unbelievably patient husband and the two best cats in the known universe.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully whimsical felting book December 3, 2010

By Shala Kerrigan TOP 50 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

I Felt Awesome by Moxie is a needle felting book that absolutely lives up to it's title.
In the middle of the holiday rush to get projects done in time, this book is very distracting. The projects are whimsical and delightfully unexpected. There is a lot of gorgeous sculpting in the needle felting community. This book has amazing projects that will make you laugh out loud and really inspire you to felt.
It starts with a tools list that explains the various tools. Including the fact that if you're needle felting, you need adhesive bandages. And safety tips so hopefully you won't need them as often. Materials list, and 25 pages on the techniques of needle felting so even absolute beginners can start with this book.
First chapter is wearables. May the laughter begin. Starting with a martini inspired necklace of olives with pimentos*, it just gets even more fun from there. Imagine a soft sculptured spiked wrist band. The juxtaposition of soft and spikey just thrills me.The perfect accessory for the crafty punk. I could really do this all day, describing all my favorite projects, but that will be a really really long review.So I'm going to try and narrow it down a lot.
The Fat Head barrettes are a great starter project or a project for an evening of crafting with friends. It starts with commercial felt with added embellishments.
The Playables are incredibly clever. The author uses magnets to create a soft sculpted Potato Head doll and if that's not cute enough, a Katamari Damacy ball that can pick up paper clips and such from your desk. Desk bowling and the cutest little emo doll I've ever seen are my other favorites from this chapter.
In Form Not Function, it gets to more of what I've come to expect from needle felting. Sculpture just for it's own sake. A faux neon sign, a cute houseplant with a hot dog hanging from it, an adorable mobile based on warning labels.
If you have had an interest in needle felting, I recommend this book happily.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Seriously Hilarious December 6, 2010

By R. GALE

Format:Paperback

This is quite possibly the funniest craft tutorial book ever written. If you want to learn how to needle felt - great - it's great for that too. But if you also just read the text of the tutorials - hilarious. Love it! I'm gonna make everything in here!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The review is already built in to the book title December 2, 2010

By William Van Hecke

Format:Paperback

Here's a book full of pure joy. I looked pretty much like the smiley dude on the cover the whole time I was reading it. Moxie knows how to get you as excited as she is about the thrill of felting. You couldn't ask for a better introduction to this craft! POKE POKE POKE