--- In AussieFeltmakers@..., sandken <gordon1963@...> wrote:
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> >Hi All
>
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> Just a quick email we have three new members, please give them a warm welcome!
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> One is a member of Feltwest, and another from NZ, unfortunately I don't
> have any more info!
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> Please send an email introducing yourself!
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> Cheers
>
> Sandie :-)
>

Hi Everyone
My name is Georgi and I have only felted once, I belong to the Embroiderers
guild in WA
and I have just joined Feltwest and will go along to my first meeting soon.  I
love stitching,
quilting, kniting, crochet, and tried almost everything crafty.  I want to learn
to felt and
make bags and embellish them with stitching. Im married with kids and I'm 45

>Hi All


Just a quick email we have three new members, please give them a warm welcome!

One is a member of Feltwest, and another from NZ, unfortunately I don't
have any more info!

Please send an email introducing yourself!

Cheers

Sandie :-)

He everyone, good to meet you Purple. I live in Warragul. I've been a
member since the inception, however, I've been inactive for a while,
as very little felting has been going on in my workroom. I've been
doing some spinning on my Roberta electric spinner, knitting then
felting it.

Due to chronic back pain, felting has been on the back burner.
However, I'm going to Bendigo on Saturday, I shall be demonstrating on
the Victorian Feltmakers table on Sat afternoon and Sun morning. Come
and see us. It's a great group to join.

I'm looking forward to meeting Natalie at last & re-aquainting myself
with Pat.

Who else is going? Are you Stacey? I can't remember if you said you
were at the last meeting of the VFI (Victorian Feltmakers Inc, for the
uninitiated)

I had better get some bits and pieces ready for the weekend. I usually
take far too much, but this time I hope to be more organised

Warm regards to all out there.
Barb Mewburn.

Hi an welcome Purple. I am sorry but I don't remember seeing your intro.   I LOVE your name, as I LOVE purple! I have to ask, but is it your birth name?   I have to date never had labels made only done my own tags.I could make my own as I have two embroidery machines and digitizing software, although I am still a beginner in that field. Lol Maybe do a Google?   With ideas, I have a dream book beside my bed, that I draw and write my ideas in as I often wake up with my head full of thoughts! My silly brain does more work in my sleep than during the day?! - No wonder I have no teeth left.lol   I think your " mark" is a great idea and how nice to see friends wearing your felt. Nice to meet you Natalie   -------Original Message-------   From: Purple Hazelwood Date: 7/13/2007 5:03:19 PM To: AussieFeltmakers@yahoogroups.com.au Subject: Re: [AussieFeltmakers] Hello   Hi i have sent though my hi there and hello 3 times hopfully this time it worked... I am so new ideas and insperation fly though my head but not too sure on how the quality will hold up to everyone else, but i am happy to swap and trade. I am very keen on just meeting people and talking about my new found love... I will post pictures of some of the things i have madelater, as i have no pictures here at work. While i don't sell anything at the moment, i have always made things and given away to friends. A few years ago i decided to put my mark on things. I came up with the name 'By the Hand of Purple', because everything i do is by my hands! I sew a little visible purple hand on everything i make then the words hidden somewhere on the garment. At a party i went to a few months ago there was one moment  where i looked around and saw 5 little hands waving from my friends clothes and bitz. it made me swell with pride! Which brings me to a question... as i do plan to make a few things for a joint market stall (my friend is a ceramic artist also wants to sell some things) i would like to put my lables on the bits i sell, does anyone know where i can get a small runn of cloth lables with my mark on them? what do other people do to lable their products? anyway friday home time... i am sure i'll think of 100's of more questions... Natalie <kastana@gcom.net.au> wrote:      Good evening everyone!   How are we all?   I have noted that the  list has become very still in the last few months and I am as much at fault as  anyone. Lol   Our lives can be so busy and sometimes very distressing  ( no I don't have bad news) but I do feel that it would be nice to try and bring the fun and interesting chats back to this great group.I have been a member from the start and have enjoyed getting to know the wonderful and very talented felters,   some of whom we have shared their  ups and downs with. An oddly, I hold close to my heart even though I have never met them! As I am poor at the written word my posts can be a bit lacking in true thoughts.lol   I think sandie has always done a great job with the list and no, I do not know who the next list mum will be.  Thanks Sandie.     Now, what I would love to see again  is some more interest in the group activities .  Wendy offered to do a fibre swap, but I don't remember  anything happening-sorry if I have missed it?? I turned 40 this past June and I am sure some of my brain cells went to sleep! If everyone is sick of a normal fibre swap, how about an exotic or colour theme? What about an winter solstice or summer one or a photo comp of fibre animals with a needle felted animal that's in the photos or a felted flower swap? A felted summer top swap? Another scarf swap with a theme? I was even thinking of on line class of some sort with maybe web cams or something every now an then.???   Another thought was ( and I know we are oz only ) but to have NZ folks to boost numbers? I don't really know why just thought of the spin list.   I can't remember if I told you but I have now made it into the retail side of felt making and I am thrilled to be selling to (so far) a couple of shops and I now plan to take it another step by seeing other shop owners and changing my website and getting out an about!   All this has made me think about my business card and my name.   After much discussion it was felt that Nemcala heart felted creations was not right and it has now been changed to HeartFelted Creations. This I found very hard as Nemcala has a lot of meaning. So how did everyone else come up with their name? Another thing that has come up, was fibre artist. I still feel this is right but others do not.I don't use the word textile because I don't work with woven fabric. What do we all think?   Well, that will do for tonight.   Take care all Hugs Natalie. :)                                        HeartFelted Creations AUSTRALIA kastana@gcom.net.au www.nemcalaheartfeltedcreations.com/   Love &#39;n Lighting Purple Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. – Henry Ford &quot;I wonder if we can speak through rose-tinted spectacles&quot; - Nick Ross Yahoo!7 Mail has just got even bigger and better with unlimited storage on all webmail accounts. Find out more.

Good evening everyone!   How are we all?   I have noted that the  list has become very still in the last few months and I am as much at fault as  anyone. Lol   Our lives can be so busy and sometimes very distressing  ( no I don't have bad news) but I do feel that it would be nice to try and bring the fun and interesting chats back to this great group.I have been a member from the start and have enjoyed getting to know the wonderful and very talented felters,   some of whom we have shared their  ups and downs with. An oddly, I hold close to my heart even though I have never met them! As I am poor at the written word my posts can be a bit lacking in true thoughts.lol   I think sandie has always done a great job with the list and no, I do not know who the next list mum will be.  Thanks Sandie.     Now, what I would love to see again  is some more interest in the group activities .  Wendy offered to do a fibre swap, but I don't remember  anything happening-sorry if I have missed it?? I turned 40 this past June and I am sure some of my brain cells went to sleep! If everyone is sick of a normal fibre swap, how about an exotic or colour theme? What about an winter solstice or summer one or a photo comp of fibre animals with a needle felted animal that's in the photos or a felted flower swap? A felted summer top swap? Another scarf swap with a theme? I was even thinking of on line class of some sort with maybe web cams or something every now an then.???   Another thought was ( and I know we are oz only ) but to have NZ folks to boost numbers? I don't really know why just thought of the spin list.   I can't remember if I told you but I have now made it into the retail side of felt making and I am thrilled to be selling to (so far) a couple of shops and I now plan to take it another step by seeing other shop owners and changing my website and getting out an about!   All this has made me think about my business card and my name.   After much discussion it was felt that Nemcala heart felted creations was not right and it has now been changed to HeartFelted Creations. This I found very hard as Nemcala has a lot of meaning. So how did everyone else come up with their name? Another thing that has come up, was fibre artist. I still feel this is right but others do not.I don't use the word textile because I don't work with woven fabric. What do we all think?   Well, that will do for tonight.   Take care all Hugs Natalie. :)                                        HeartFelted Creations AUSTRALIA kastana@gcom.net.au www.nemcalaheartfeltedcreations.com/

Hi All

Sorry I haven't written for a while.

Since a health scare in late March I have been focusing on my well being
and not my email and I feel that our group has suffered greatly.

I have decided that it is time to hand the reins over to someone who I am
sure can do a much better job than I and put some life back into our group!

For the past couple of months I have been focusing on just trying to relax
and knitting a lot its been really therapeutic! :-) I have hardly picked up
a felting needle, and for those who know me well will know that that is
quite earth shattering, needle felting has been my life for the last 6 years.

Looking after the group is not a difficult job, you just need energy,
something I don't have a lot of at the moment. :-(

Members need to be approved as we have made this a group that is Australian
only so we have restricted membership. We do get lots of enquiries from
overseas but group concensus is that there are other groups to meet this
need so we would stay southern hemisphere based. You don't have to organise
a lot but its great if ideas can be thrown at the group occaisionally ie
exchanges etc.

I am not planning on going anywhere, I am still going to be part of the
group but do thinks its time for a change of management.

If you are interested and think you can do the job, can you please email me
OFFLIST at gordon1963@... so we can chat.

If we have more than one applicant I will put up the profiles and you guys
can vote.

Enjoy your weekend all!

Cheers

Sandie :-)

Hi to all,
   Back from the U.K. Great holiday and lots of
travelling. Did not see any felt. WE spent our time
looking at gardens. Monet's in France. Just beautiful
and mind blowing. Even got into the house. Chelsea
Flower Show. Wall to wall people but worth it. Just
tremendous.  The Eden project and the Lost Gardens of
Heligan.  Apart from castle gardens and catching up
with old friends in my home town of Aberdeen Scotland.
  How are you all?  What have you been doing? I
actually made a piece of felt today with a whale theme
for our inaugural spin -in on Saturday.The whale watch
season has started here in Augusta W.A.

Regards to all the feltetts!!   Meg


      
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-----Original Message-----
From: AussieFeltmakers@... [mailto:AussieFeltmakers@...] On Behalf Of Stacey Apeitos
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 10:05 AM
To: AussieFeltmakers@...
Subject: [AussieFeltmakers] Felt Convergence

Hi all

Wendy and Kerry and I were all at the Feltmakers Convergence in Beechworth, along with just over 100 other feltmakers from around Oz and NZ. We had a ball! You can see some of my photos if you start at my blog and follow the link to my Flickr album at the end of the current post.

http://www.studioastarte.com.au/ispirato/

The highlights for me were the social events. There was lots of dressing up and fantastic felt to goggle at. Workshops were good. Our aims were education, socialization and inspiration.

No one put their hand up to run the next one in two years but the Kiwis are going home to discuss the possibility.

Stacey Apeitos

My blog: http://www.studioastarte.com.au/ispirato

Go-Make-Art: http://www.Go-Make-Art.com

Melbourne Paperific Expo: http://www.paperific.com.au

Hi everyone,

I was wondering how to make the surface of my felt harder and maybe
stop it from going so fuzzy sometimes. I am finding my slippers look
great to begin with but become fuzzy quickly.

thanks ardione

From: Cynthia Mollenkopf <cmollenkopf@...>
Date: 2007/05/08 Tue AM 07:33:50 CDT
To: feltmakers@...
Subject: Most unusual breed if sheep!


Thanks for sharing this..it's pretty cute (of course being a 30 year phone co
veteran probably helps)
Annie
Felting in Pgh

 http://www.cualquiera.com.ar/notas/arte.html

----- Original Message -----

From: Natalie

To: AussieFeltmakers@...

Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:03 AM

Subject: Re: [AussieFeltmakers] scarves

Hi Ardione and everyone. I use as little as 40 grams and as much as 300g! It all depends one what you are thinking of making. Sometimes things take a life of there own and you just go with it.lol Cheers natalie   -------Original Message-------   From: ardione99 Date: 05/09/07 17:13:10 To: AussieFeltmakers@yahoogroups.com.au Subject: [AussieFeltmakers] scarves   Hi everyone, I was just wondering how much wool everyone uses in their scarves?? I know it varies greatly depending on what you are trying to acheive and if you are doing nuno or not. Any feed back would be greatly appreciated. thanks Ardione

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