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Post by elizabeth on Feb 20, 2017 15:57:46 GMT
Hello, Bonnie. In your area there is New England Felting supply. They have lots of classes. Depending on where you live in NJ, it looks like a weekend trip. Also, you could plan to go to the Fiber Festival of New England. www.easternstatesexposition.com/p/fiberfestivalI believe that most of us get our fiber supplies on-line. I know there is not much wool to be found in Texas! Have fun, this is a great group!
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Post by bonnie on Feb 22, 2017 16:31:31 GMT
Hi Elizabeth, Thanks for the tip. I am discovering many sources for supplies online. Just would like to have a face to face conversation with someone. I will check it the FFofNE.
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Post by zed on Mar 2, 2017 13:19:42 GMT
I made a Nuno scarf with 60 grams of 19 micron merino, the size is 78 x 175 cm but what does that tell you? Actually, that does tell a lot. We were doing scarf neckwarmers as samplers for full size scarves at the Well-Being centre just before Christmas. I was supplying the wool, and we had limited spaces. I had a scarf similar size/weight to yours, so I used those weights and measures to work out how much wool I needed to take for the samplers of about 20 x 75cm. I split the weighed out wool in half, with instructions to lay out finely and use half for one layer, and then the other half for the second, so they'd be equal and consistent. I know it's not a rule or anything, but it can help as somwhere to start for a complete beginner Welcome to the forum, Bonnie I agree about making samples, and like Ann says, if you make them big enough, they can be turned into something. I just have one rule really when considering which fibres to buy: Buy it all The finer you lay out your wool, the more it will shrink. It will shrink more in the direction you lay it, so if you do a very thin one layer scarf, with all the wool lengthways, it will shrink most that way, and if you used fabric, you will get more ruffled/ scrunched fabric. Of course it depends on the fabric and how much you felt/full. This is nuno with 2 'regular' thickness layers of Merino, as in how much comes off commercial wool tops with a good grip, I used a piece of silk, it rippled as the wool shrunk, but stayed quite flat: Nuno Felt by zedster01, on Flickr This is a piece I made with various fabrics, but used very little wool (natural white Merino), I used 4 really fine and not very even layers, which were still thinner than what I'd call a 'regular' layer. The really ripples part is synthetic chiffon: White Nuno by zedster01, on Flickr Samples really are the best way to learn, and documenting the results, and keeping some samples to see and feel the difference really does help. Apologies for self promotion, but if you want to learn the basics of what gives different results, to help you control the outcome, I wrote an e-book, Beyond Nuno. I am really not a scarf expert by any stretch of the imagination, and there are no projects, just the hows and why's things turn out the way they do, but have a squiz at the info about it: feltbyzed.blogspot.co.uk/p/e-books.html
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