Post by caffiendn33dler on Apr 6, 2021 1:19:03 GMT
Hi All-
Stoked to be here. I'm not new to felting fiber but I AM new to this forum and ecstatic to begin again. I suppose the best way to get to know folks is to offer up a bit about me. I discovered needle felting in 2002 when my oldest (now 20) attended out local Waldorf School parent/child classes. I took to it quickly and consistently mostly making gifts for friends and family but never selling items. I got to a point that I didn't really improve and then got too busy to practice. Throughout the years I've studied midwifery, had two more children so did the Stay-at-home-mom thing, mostly toting the kids to and from school while self-educating and continuing to dabble in felting. I've taught some workshops at the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair and had the pleasure and honor of teaching a needle felting workshop at WEB's in Northampton in 2011. I'd always had it in my head that I wanted a Bachelor's Degree so in 2011 I slowly worked my way through community college and then attended Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins scholar.
Throughout it all, I was doing the things I'd envisioned doing for myself--the things I was always told one should do for financial security and self-actualization-- but the desire to perfect a craft and make beautiful things for a life, if not for a living, continued to whisper temptingly in my soul. Honestly, I'm not that good at it YET. But the plan is to improve and bring to life things that come from my heart and soul, totems and art that speak to entangled histories and potential futures and some things that nature has already perfected, such as the botanic diversity that our favorite furry and feathered critters live amongst. What I love about the fiber community is that we all bring a slightly different perspective to the felting table, we each have a style and we happily chatter and trade secrets between the crunchy thrust of our felting tools. When I was felting in the earlier years, I didn't capture many pictures. I didn't really have a nice cell phone until 2011 but I will share a few photos of faeries and things I've made in the years past. Most of what I've made was done the Waldorf-style, so few faces. But that is not where I intend to stay or go from here. If you've stuck with me thus far, THANK YOU! I'm not known for being succinct, so apologies and you may want to avoid my posts if you don't have time to read in the future.![]()
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Stoked to be here. I'm not new to felting fiber but I AM new to this forum and ecstatic to begin again. I suppose the best way to get to know folks is to offer up a bit about me. I discovered needle felting in 2002 when my oldest (now 20) attended out local Waldorf School parent/child classes. I took to it quickly and consistently mostly making gifts for friends and family but never selling items. I got to a point that I didn't really improve and then got too busy to practice. Throughout the years I've studied midwifery, had two more children so did the Stay-at-home-mom thing, mostly toting the kids to and from school while self-educating and continuing to dabble in felting. I've taught some workshops at the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair and had the pleasure and honor of teaching a needle felting workshop at WEB's in Northampton in 2011. I'd always had it in my head that I wanted a Bachelor's Degree so in 2011 I slowly worked my way through community college and then attended Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins scholar.
Throughout it all, I was doing the things I'd envisioned doing for myself--the things I was always told one should do for financial security and self-actualization-- but the desire to perfect a craft and make beautiful things for a life, if not for a living, continued to whisper temptingly in my soul. Honestly, I'm not that good at it YET. But the plan is to improve and bring to life things that come from my heart and soul, totems and art that speak to entangled histories and potential futures and some things that nature has already perfected, such as the botanic diversity that our favorite furry and feathered critters live amongst. What I love about the fiber community is that we all bring a slightly different perspective to the felting table, we each have a style and we happily chatter and trade secrets between the crunchy thrust of our felting tools. When I was felting in the earlier years, I didn't capture many pictures. I didn't really have a nice cell phone until 2011 but I will share a few photos of faeries and things I've made in the years past. Most of what I've made was done the Waldorf-style, so few faces. But that is not where I intend to stay or go from here. If you've stuck with me thus far, THANK YOU! I'm not known for being succinct, so apologies and you may want to avoid my posts if you don't have time to read in the future.
I tried to post some photos but don't understand how to do it. i don't have dropbox. I use google drive and have a folder of photos on my desktop. I did try to follow a tutorial for converting and adding photos here but no luck. Is there a link or should I get dropbox and go that route? 
