Felt to Life by Tracy Whitney

05/15/2014

It made it to Capper's Farmer's page!

Renee-Lucie walks us through the process of needle felting. If you're looking to take up a new craft, this could be it! http://bit.ly/T2JnFb

05/14/2014

I’m constantly impressed by the MANY great talents and personalities in my community. Recently I met a wonderful person and fantastic artist Renee-Lucie Benoit . She and her husband are the caretakers for Grindstone Ranch and she has recently started blog writing for www.cappersfarmer.com (a website filled with practical information on small farms and “homemade life”). She wrote an article on my needle felting and I am so excited to share it with you.

http://www.cappersfarmer.com/do-it-yourself-projects/crafts-and-techniques/needle-felting-is-a-great-craft.aspx


I love that this article is also a tutorial so if you have any questions please ask !

05/13/2014

I have been slowly felting during the evening hours and trying to build my felting time back up after a much needed break. I have been busy with family colds and a flu, cleaning and organizing (I think I felted a little to much during the previous 5 months), Easter Break, Stonyford Rodeo, and now starting on the yard, garden and snake proofing.
I have been asked to make a Precious Cat and a couple hedge hogs. The cat isn't cute yet. He will be on here soon. Also, there will be some exciting news in the next post.

04/02/2014

I finally took advantage of this beautiful weather. It had been a while since we had sunny weather with no winds. The Elk's pictures turned out really good! Here are a couple.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/183194047/needle-felted-bugling-bull-elk-sculpture?

03/27/2014

Last Saturday's sale was so much fun. There are some amazing artist in this area! My cuddling cats, hedgehogs and some other peices sold. This is my second order of the "Bunny Trio". I hand delivered my Bunnies to a local resident today (picture below). I still have some spring and easter peices left. There is even a blank egg that I can add any picture to.

I wanted to Thank those supporting me and wishing this buisness well. It means a lot to me.

03/22/2014

I'm at Elk Creek Today. My first craft sale.

03/19/2014

I still have a couple more things to do on him but he is very close to done. I will have better pictures later this week when he isn't trying to fly away in this wind. I loved how he turned out and will be at the Craft sale this Saturday.

03/17/2014

After a haircut. I still have a long way to go.

03/16/2014

I'm making slow progress. I think this will be a 20 hour project. What was I thinking?? I'm excited to start on the head.

03/14/2014

Another late night......

03/09/2014

Emma inspecting Hedgezilla. Another custom order for a quilter. She needed something for her long pins.

03/08/2014

New Hedgehogs! Getting ready for the Elk Creek Arts and Craft sale. Our original hedgy finally sold on etsy so I made more. The one on the right is Sky. That's what happened when I felt from 9:30 to 12:30 at night. I needed natural light to see there was deep blue wool blended with the grey and white. Any name ideas for the others?