Customer Reviews

Felt to Stitch: Creative Felting for Textile Artists

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I bought this book to use with developmentally disabled adults. These adults live on a ranch, helping care for several fiber producing animals. This book is part of a cottage industry proposal that the staff and I are working on and I couldn't be more pleased. The pictures are vivid (appealing to my imagination) and the presentation is logical and orderly (appealing to the teacher/student part of me).

The directions are simple and straight forward. The projects are adaptable for all levels of cognitive functioning and motor skills, and provide absolutely beautiful results. From making flat felt as a raw material to three dimensional objects, from surface designs to combining felt and fabric, as well as jewelry, this book covers the basics and gives lots of creative ideas for projects. The results that my "students" came up with were lovely, and as always with felt, nearly impossible to duplicate.

The experiences we used from this book were satisfying for those who love texture (wet/dry, bubble wrap, different types of fibers, raw fleece/fulled fabric). They were also satisfying for those who are visually stimulated, as color is well used throughout each project. The surface design ideas were usable by all, regardless of functioning level, because many different options are presented (paint sticks, stitching, stencilling, block printing, beadwork, cobweb, needle felting). The skills required are repetitive and not technical, the materials are easily found and readily available, and the actual individual tasks of going from raw fleece to finished product are varied, interesting and appeal to short-moderate attention spans. The working process provided a wonderful atmosphere for cooperation and conversation, as each adult helped or received help from their peers and shared the excitement as their project began to take shape. We now have finished items that my students can use, sell, or wear and they know which animal gave its fleece to them to make it.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is fascinated by fiber and feels intimidated by the current "fiber artist" trend. Nearly anybody can make felt and be delighted with the results. This book is an excellent guide to finding the different ways to make and use felt, and is suited for the beginner and the seasoned alike. Excellent!

Well thought out, great instructions. Has directions on decorative felting I haven't found in other books. Ms Smith obviously knows what she is doing. Would highly recommend this to someone looking for different ideas.

I have devoured this book from front to back. It is truly a beautiful book with excellent information and gorgeous pictures.It is very well written with easy to understand instructions for those new to felting as I am.
There are a few projects; again easy to understand and the book encourages the felter to explore their own creativity and generally have a ball!!
Congratulations Sheila Smith on a book which will easily become one of my treasured possessions.

This is a very good book with ideas on what to do with your felted pieces. I especially like the needle felting parts.

This is simply a beautiful book. Lots of wonderful techniques, eye candy photography. One of the best felting book out there IMHO

Loved every page. This book showed me how to create and embellish felt in new and creative ways. There are detailed instructions and methods on how to use different fibres, dyes, techniques, colours, threads and other embellishments. Highly recommended for students, teachers and art makers.

Brilliant! what more can i say? A must have for any felt or textile artist.

I learned a lot about how to felt correctly. I have made some beautiful pieces as a result of this book. I love some of the work featured in this book. The 3-D pieces are amazing. I would love to learn how to do that.

I'm a fiber artist and I was looking for a way to creatively add felt to my work. I believe I found it in this book. No, it is not your typical beginner book...but it has very clear and direct instructions that I found easy to follow. You can make flat felt, 3D felt, and even nuno felt with this book. Best of all, it has inspiring and beautiful close up images of the felt work. 5 stars.

Definitely not for beginners. Very good as far as decsriptions and explanations go. At least now I know what the terms mean, and can identify different felting methods. Will use some of the processes. I did learn more about the art of felting from this book. The photography is super.