Widely adopted by crafters of all persuasions, felting uses wool, water, and soap to create a thick, strong, and durable material---perfect for making a long-lasting bag. Combining a number of different felting techniques---wet felting, knitted felting, crocheted felting, and recycling---here are twenty-one colorful projects for truly stunning and fashionable bags you’ll want to use everyday. The Felted Bag Book also encourages your creativity with variations and ideas to adapt the projects to your individual style. In addition to felting, you learn how to embellish your bag with eye-catching motifs and trimming. The book starts with a section on the basics and covers different felting techniques, materials and tools required for each project. And with 250 full-color photographs and comprehensive step-by-step directions, these designs are as easy to create as they are gorgeous to look at!
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Claiming anything felted as her universe, British author Johns divides her 21 projects into four categories: fleece (the raw materials combined with a combination water/soap/heat/friction), knitting, crochet, and recycled materials. She prefaces her plethora of patterns with full basic instructions on the materials and tools needed, then immediately launches into the specific how-to’s. Each handbag is named and, more importantly, directions are illustrated with words and, when at a critical junction, with close-up color photographs. Styles are simple and, even when embellished, retain a modern flair, whether resembling a hot water bottle (“Scarlet”) or employing a gently pre-worn blanket (“Caroline”). Easy, breezy, and well in time for holiday stitching. --Barbara Jacobs
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SUSIE JOHNS is an experienced crafter, specializing in knitting, crochet, embroidery, and other textile crafts. She is a contributor to a number of craft magazines, and the author of many books on knitting, crochet, embroidery, and felting. She teaches craft workshops and lives in London.
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Having studied Fine Art at the Slade School, Susie Johns worked as a magazine and partworks editor for 11 years, specialising in cookery, crafts, childcare and gardening, before going freelance in 1996.
Since then, she has written and illustrated books on a variety of creative subjects.
She has also worked for Marvel Comics, making most of the models for Art Attack magazine and has written regular features for consumer magazines such as Stitches, Let's Knit, Crafts Beautiful, Quick & Crafty, Beads & Beyond, Needlecraft, Junior, Family Circle, Practical Parenting, Practical Gardening and Embroidery (for the Embroiderers' Guild and Royal School of Needlework).
Favourite crafts include embroidery, knitting, crochet, collage and watercolour painting. And she particularly enjoys activities that involve recycling and reinventing.
Susie is a qualified teacher. She runs a weekly drawing and painting class at an Adult Education college near her home in Greenwich, South East London, and has plenty of experience running workshops in watercolours, knitting and crochet, and 3D Design. She was an 'Art of the Stitch' exhibitor in 2001.
Susie's latest books, due to be published this autumn are Knitted Flowers: Twenty to Make (Search Press) and The Felted Bag Book (New Holland). To see examples of Susie's work and to find out more about her, visit: www.susieatthecircus.typepad.com
Since then, she has written and illustrated books on a variety of creative subjects.
She has also worked for Marvel Comics, making most of the models for Art Attack magazine and has written regular features for consumer magazines such as Stitches, Let's Knit, Crafts Beautiful, Quick & Crafty, Beads & Beyond, Needlecraft, Junior, Family Circle, Practical Parenting, Practical Gardening and Embroidery (for the Embroiderers' Guild and Royal School of Needlework).
Favourite crafts include embroidery, knitting, crochet, collage and watercolour painting. And she particularly enjoys activities that involve recycling and reinventing.
Susie is a qualified teacher. She runs a weekly drawing and painting class at an Adult Education college near her home in Greenwich, South East London, and has plenty of experience running workshops in watercolours, knitting and crochet, and 3D Design. She was an 'Art of the Stitch' exhibitor in 2001.
Susie's latest books, due to be published this autumn are Knitted Flowers: Twenty to Make (Search Press) and The Felted Bag Book (New Holland). To see examples of Susie's work and to find out more about her, visit: www.susieatthecircus.typepad.com
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Simple=drab,
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This review is from: The Felted Bag Book: 21 Simple Projects for Every Occasion (Paperback)
I only found one purse in this collection that I would actually make, the others were either shapeless, drab, or awkward looking. Some of the pictures in the book showed that when the bags were held or hung by their felted straps, they would simply hang open or lose their shape.
This book would be good for a beginner felter who wants to learn simple bag shapes, but for the experienced knitter/felter, it is a definite pass.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Intermediate level,
This review is from: The Felted Bag Book: 21 Simple Projects for Every Occasion (Paperback)
I like most of the bags in this book. I picked out one and gave it a try. I am a first time felter and needed more detailed instructions. I went to the internet to look up information to finish this project.
3.0 out of 5 stars
If you are a felter, you will appreciate fresh new patterns for bags,
By Pleased as punch "Jill D" (Cumming, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Felted Bag Book: 21 Simple Projects for Every Occasion (Paperback)
I have been felting bags for years and this book offers some new patterns and styles. It has fresh ideas, and the bags are so cute and fun. It contains lots of good ideas.
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