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Felting Fashion: Creative and Inspirational Techniques for Feltmakers

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This book is inspirational. A good review for intermediate felters, offering new things to try. I find some details in the "how to" descriptions are missing though, and you just have to trust that what you are doing will work. For beginners it would be a tough slog, as they'd not have prior knowledge to fall back upon.
Beautiful pictures.

This is one of the rare craft books I own where every project inspires me. Thanks to the popularity of wet felting and nuno felting, there are now scores of books on both topics, and I own several of them. This one stands out. The focus goes beyond making simple items to creating felted fashion. It contains clear instructions about basic and advanced techniques, but the real focus of the book is on adding creative touches to both the fabric and the cut of the finished items. It's a great book for both new and experienced felters and won't move to the back of your bookshelf.

This is a most inspirational book. It causes the creative juices to flow at a very fast rate! The pictures are very good, as are the instructions. It leads your imagination to explore just what is possible with felting.

This is the book I have been looking for for the past several years. Beautifully written, detailed descriptions of the various processes. Exceptional designs and ideas for things you would actually want to wear. I can't wait to make at least 5 projects to start. Very inspirational.

This is a wonderful book for advanced felters. It allows for fusion of all techniques of felting and other fabric arts. Great inspiration. Easy to follow instructions and clear photographs.

I cannot understand how a craft book missed step-by-step pictures. As an intermediate felter, I find very dissapointing buying a book which pretends to be a guide for larger projects and you won't find even an only picture on the process! Nothing! Only written explanations and quite shoddy drawings.
The pictures of the coats, hats, etc are nice( really nice work) and inspirational... if you discover yourself how to do them.

Practical ideas for creating lovely clothes from felt provide step-by-step directions for working with nuno felt and offers designer Lizzie Houghton's original creations. FELTING FASHION: CREATIVE AND INSPIRATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR FELTMAKERS offers Houghton and others' original works and teaches how to make everything from brooches and hats to jackets and coats. Needlework libraries looking at felting guides will find this an appealing pick.

This book whilst one of the best on the market, was limited mostly to style and design. I was looking for more indepth detailed instuction.

I purchased this book to expand my knowledge toward wearable fiber garments. This book is very informative and beautiful photos, I plan to make my first one of akind wearble fiber fashion this month. I shown this to two of my friends who also plan to purchase Felting Fashions.

The photographs beautifully show the richness of the felting and the designs are very inspiring; the author clearly loves her work. The instructions, however, are spotty especially for the garments. Some are gratefully clear and given slowly step-by-step; others (the more intricate) are disappointingly missing. Ex: instructions for a lovely Nuno-felt jacket with collar start with basic how-to steps involving what by 3/4 through the book are obvious but fails to even suggest how to make the collar. It strikes me as odd that the author is clear and repetitive with basic steps only to seemingly assume the reader would know how to do the harder parts. It leaves me feeling as though I was given a recipe but a few essential ingredients have been purposefully left out.
Visually I often treat myself to studying the photos. Heart be still!