Want to Win My Hand Dyed Silks and Colorful Wool Roving for Your Handmade Nuno Felting? Giveway Contest Going on Right Now at Craft Gossip!

Everyone loves a freebie... Right?  Well, I know that I do!  That's why I offered up a package of my hand dyed silk in 9 different colors and a package of wool roving in 12 different colors to the super sweet felting editor, Linda, at Craft Gossip.  There is a contest going on right now, and you could win it all!  It makes a great basic starter kit for anyone wanting to try nuno felting.  It is also a nice combination of silk fabric and wool roving materials for the fiber lover or textile designer.  You just need to click here and head on over to Linda's post for complete directions on how to enter the contest.

My last contest hosted by Craft Gossip received over 130 entries!  Thanks so much to all who entered last time for the needle felting kits giveaway and congratulations to the lucky winners.  I hope you are enjoying your new adventures in needle felting.

(p.s. Although, I appreciate your comments here, you can't enter the giveaway contest at this post.  Sorry about that!  It is an easy click over to the contest though for a chance to win.....)

And, a big thanks to Linda for hosting the giveaway!

Nuno Felting - A Before and After Sneak Peak at the Technique from Raw Wool and Silk to Finished Scarves

I rarely snap photos while I'm working on a felted piece, but I took a minute to snap a photo of some of my latest nuno felted scarves while I was in the process of creating them. I thought that my blog readers might be interested to see the before and after photos. The first photo is of the layers of wool and silk chiffon prior to being wet felted. You can see the loose wool fibers laying on top of the silk chiffon with some of the fabric showing through in places. There is also another layer of wool on the bottom of the silk chiffon which you can't see. The silk is sandwiched between the two layers of wool roving. The second photo is obviously the finished results after wet felting and drying. You can see that the colors changed a bit during the feltmaking process because of the merging of the colored wool into a different colored silk base and because of some bleeding and mixing of the dyes. (Also, the lighting isn't the best in my before photo which affected the colors too!)

These scarves are actually shorty style scarflettes. You'll also notice that they don't have the ruffle edging of some of my previous nuno felted scarves. I will be listing the new style scarflettes for sale in my Etsy shop this week. You can see more photos of these and my other nuno felted scarves on my flickr photo gallery. And, stay tuned to my blog because I'll be announcing a super special contest giveaway for one of my nuno felted scarves that will be hosted by the Felting Blog at CraftGossip. You'll have a chance to win a fabulously free scarflette!

The Funky Felter's Blog Contest Giveaway! A Handmade Felted Flower Ring in Your Choice of Colors! Whoohoo!!

It is finally time for my first blog contest giveaway! You have a chance to win a custom color felted flower ring. So what do you have to do to enter?

1. Leave a comment with a link to your favorite item in my Etsy shop and a bit about why it is your favorite item. (Yes, okay, it is a bit of a shameless ploy to get you to my Etsy shop, but it is my contest, and I'll do what I wanna!)

2. Sign up for my monthly email newsletter by going to this page. Then you'll receive a confirmation email to validate your sign up. If you've already signed up, thank you and there's no need to do it again. If not, please sign up for my monthly newsletter to receive the latest felting news, business tips, and shop promotional discounts. (I promise that you will not be spammed with relentless promotional email - just a once monthly email newsletter and the occasional great sale or discount.)

3. Check back at the end of next week for the winner to be announced. If you're the lucky winner, I want to make sure that you know it and get your custom color felted flower ring in a timely manner. (And, of course, get so excited that you dance around the room while singing and laughing uncontrollably, um, or is that just me?)

The winner will be chosen through Random.org at the end of next week on Friday, August 8th. There will be a post that day announcing the lucky, lucky winner!