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Melanie Hoffman of ND is a talented knitter and designer. She sells her custom knit items and patterns on her website Adorabubble Knits. This is Adorabubble Baby Britches, a double knit reversible pair of baby pants.

The pattern has several options for leg length, style, waist closure, hem and single or double knit. Sizes are from 0-3T.

Of course, she will knit it for you as well.

Lindsay Baker from Oregon is a WAHM. She is using our Natural to hand dye for baby items she sells on the website KY Baby Knits. She also does custom dyeing and knitting.

Lamar Ontko is a stay at home mom in Texas. She hand dyes our yarn and sells it in her store, "a time to dye" on the website Tiny Lady Cooperative. You can see close up pictures of the wonderful choices of colors in her dye work.

She calls this Cornerstone, each and every colorway is named for a Bible verse. On her blog, a time to dye she shares what the Lord is teaching her about that verse.

A wall art sculpture by Molly Alter of Illinois, made of wool felt, sterling silver and steel. The overall size is 10 inches high by 46 inches wide by 5 inches deep. The background squares are steel spaced about 6-8 inches apart, the felt pieces stand out from the squares and do touch so it is a continuous line across the wall. There are sterling silver embellishments in the felt, you can see them in the detail picture to the right.
The work is based on micro magnifications of cell mutation, but in a aesthetically pleasing way. Molly titled the piece "My Genetic Predisposition. Molly does art pieces by commission, you can contact her at jujugroom@yahoo.com.

Barbara West of Michigan needle felted this lovely hat and bag set from one of our wool batts. She is ready for spring.

I hope you can see the design detail, it looks like elongated beads. They add just the right sparkle. I think Barbara began her hat needle felting the beginning of this year.

Joan Brattlof of Florida paints with fiber and embellishes the pictures with her embroidery machine. The "windows" are a combination embroidery and appliqué. Her use of different needlework and fiber arts is a very pleasing union.

She only does her work for herself and isn't really interested in selling anything, but she says, I'm sure having a lot of fun.

Bootsie Robison has sheep on her farm in Ohio and one of the fun things she is doing with their fleeces is needle felting pincushions. She says "I find them so enjoyable to do because they are quick, easy, and salable. And they give the the freedom to experiment with colors and designs."

She also dyes some of her wool. I think she has remarkable skills in reproducing very authentic color and design with her flowers. If you need a gift for the sewer in your life, just send an email to Bootsie at grobison@cnz.com

Pam Wheelock of Indiana makes a living playing with toys. Well, actually she makes and sells toys for dogs and cats that are organic, chemical free, dye free and from fair-trade materials. She is using our Marr Haven Merino Rambouillet roving to make wool balls like the ones shown here. If your animals deserve the best, check out the other items at PurrfectPlay

Carrie Christo says she just felts and dyes for fun stress relief. The fun she is having is evident, her techniques are uncommon and the outcome is fantastic.

The silk scarf on the left is Kool Aid dyed, a mix of Cherry Berry Blast and Grape. The vessel is felted dyed merino top and the felted piece on the far left is shibori done with river rocks

Nancy Farris of Virginia teaches needle felting with the Baby Lock Embellisher. For an upcoming class, she needed more experience with hand needle felting. She used the Rose Merino Jeweltone with our foam form and a 6 needle tool. The novelty beaded trim is "back stitched" on by hand. The flower petals are done on organza and also stitched on by hand.

Obviously, Nancy is a good instructor. If you are looking for an instructor in that area, contact Nancy at msborneo@cox.net

Beverly Herman of New Orleans, LA is a bead artist, with wonderful jewelry pieces on her website No Easy Beads.

Her sister Rosanne Garvison taught her needle felting, see Rosanne's first piece. When Bev came to visit for Christmas, she brought this darling little bag to show me. She calls it Sleeve Art and has it adorned with beautiful beads around the edge and in the needle felted flamingo design. You can read how she did it on her blog, see at the bottom of the index on the left side of her website. Quite a talented family, they told me of a niece in Texas who is also a beader and now into fiber arts, see her felt art on her blog, Humblearts Journal

Roxan Dennis of Michigan used leftover fabric quilting strips cut 1 inch wide to make this colorful rug by locker hooking. The picture she gave me was really nice and showed all the great colors, sorry my reduced picture doesn't do it justice at all. The finished size is 34 inches x 56 inches.

This was the first rug she Locker Hooked. She said, "It was fun and easy & only took me 25 days in evenings and weekends. (I do work.)."

Andrea Weinrick of Michigan made this wool soaker from our Blue Heather worsted weight yarn. She is a work at home mother and sells soakers plus other items for moms and babies on her website Baa- Baby Naturals. She even has a pre-order program.

If you are interested in natural products for your baby or yourself, this is a web site you will want to check out.

Monica Pawlan of California and I have allergies in common and I am going to borrow her idea of adding pockets to my next sweater. Her sweater on the left is knit with our worsted weight Blue Heather has a stitch pattern that she used to make the pocket then added them to the finished sweater.

The sweater on the right is crocheted with our sport weight Burgundy Heather and has a fancy stitch hem at the bottom and the cuffs which Monica used for the top of the pocket.

This is one of those great ideas that makes us say "Why didn't I think of that." Thank you Monica for letting me share the photos and ideas of your beautiful sweaters.

Marzena Gabrel of Illinois is a felting artist, needle felt and wet felting, with a wonderful gallery of her bags and scarves on the website Marzena Gabrel Designs.

I chose the fall colored scarf and a bag that will brighten any drab winter day to share with you. Her designs are so flattering and full of life, as is Marzena.

Jeannie Clayton of Illinois has stopped at the farm shop the last few years while she & husband are vacationing. She wanted to use all our dyed colors together so designed this wonderful cardigan using the Light Heather yarn to bring all the colors together.

Now she can wear it with any color and anywhere. I wonder if she got the idea from a checkered flag used at the races she and her husband also enjoy. Thanks Jeannie, for bringing it by to show us.

Joyce Vance of Alabama is a mother of 4 who has developed a a self-supporting hobby of fabric painting and dyeing. That lets her justify lots of side endeavors and travel to take classes. Joyce says, "Felting started as a whimsy several years ago and is my absolute favorite thing to do." The scarves shown here were her first experiments with nuno felting.

Joyce's website of handpainted children's clothing and other items is called Elliebelly, named after her 7 year old daughter who is already into felting. Hopefully, she will include her felting on the site soon.

Michelle Plumb of Michigan does wonderful recreations of nature in her projects. On the left is a picture taken by her husband Steve of a little-studied starfield called IC4768.

On the right is a needlefelted tote she is making depicting the starfield. She is sewing seed beads on to represent the stars. Her original photos showed the gorgeous details so well. Michelle is also the one who shared her yarn dyeing technique with us. Thanks again, Michelle.

Kathie Sierau of Sweden makes these wonderful felted wool caps called mossa. They are worn by children and adults. Although the shape is a basic style for all, each mossa has its own personality.

I am sure they are very useful in Sweden as well as attractive, wouldn't they be wonderful for our Michigan winters. Kathie doesn't have a website - yet.

Rachel Lopez of Pennsylvania hand dyed our Natural worsted weight yarn with food coloring and knit them into the soaker/shorts on the right. Any child (and mother) would love this bright, fun look.

Rachel sells her hand knit items, adult garments as well as the wool soakers, on her Casa Java Knits website. She has a very entertaining blog on the site also.