Back in stock: needle-felting kits.

Posted by Julia on December 9, 2015

For a couple of years now, we’ve carried needle felting kits from Romney Ridge Farm in Maine. Each kit has the instructions and materials needed to create tiny woolen creatures, and we try to have a nice selection of animals to choose from. Not long ago, we found ourselves without a single sheep kit, a problem that now is remedied.

Along with these sweet sheep, you’ll find kits for needle-felted bears, chickens, snowy owls, harbor seals, and others.

Last weekend, Anne plucked one of the fox kits off the shelf, and quietly needle-felted in between phone calls and customers checking out.

It wasn’t more than an hour and a half before this handsome fellow emerged.

If this kind of creature-creating appeals to you, come by the shop to pick up a Romney Ridge Farms needle-felting kit of your own. As Anne can attest, it’s quick, easy, and intuitive, even if you’ve never needle-felted before. These qualities also make the kits ideal for holiday gift-giving, so remember them as you’re shopping for the fiber-loving crafty types in your life!

See you at the shop!

Felted.

Posted by Julia on July 28, 2015

A new special issue from Interweave has found its way to the shop: take a peek inside Felted.

Felted covers all manner of felt crafts, from needle felting and wet felting to stitching with felt, whether found or created.

Some of these projects begin with yarn and knitting needles and are then wet-felted in the washing machine; others are constructed from woven Zoom Loom squares. Some begin with thrifted sweaters, mined for feltable knit fabric; others begin with ready-made felt fabric, or colorful wool roving. What they all have in common is felt, which is a sturdy compressed wool fabric full of possibilities.

Look for Felted on the teacart with the newest books and magazines. See you at the shop!

New kits from Romney Ridge Farm.

Posted by Julia on September 14, 2014

We just got new needle felting kits from Romney Ridge Farm in Maine! Last year at TNNA, Anne fell for the needle felted sheep, and a few other barnyard creatures. This year, we got kits to needle felt a whole menagerie of animals.

Rabbits, Shetland ponies, bears, seals, foxes, puffins and owls… any and all can be sculpted from fluffy fleece with the help of sharp felting needles and clear instructions. These kits come with all of the above.

Come by the shop to see our full selection of Romney Ridge Farm needle-felting kits! See you there.

On needle-felting.

Posted by Julia on May 13, 2014

Last week, as she prepared for a trip to New York for her granddaughter’s birthday, Anne began a new project.

Our sweet Romney Ridge Farm needle-felting kits caught her eye, and thinking of her granddaughter, Anne began crafting these little woolen critters.

The kits come with roving, felting needles, and detailed instructions to make the animals pictured.

In just one afternoon, Anne transformed these little puffs of wool roving into one songbird, then another, and finally a sheep.

If this kind of creature-creating appeals to you, come by the shop to pick up a needle-felting kit of your own. As Anne can attest, it’s quick, easy, and intuitive, even if you’ve never needle-felted before. See you at the shop!

Romney Ridge Farm Needle-Felting Kits.

Posted by Julia on October 10, 2013

At TNNA this past June, something unusual caught Anne’s eye: a collection of tiny needle-felted animals, made from wool roving. She was particularly taken with a little sheep, and spent one of our exhausted hotel-room evenings making one herself. Having never needle-felted before, and with written instructions alone, Anne created this little guy in about an hour.

These needle-felting kits come from Romney Ridge Farm in Maine. We couldn’t stop at sheep alone–not when there were chickens and songbirds and pigs to be had.

Come by the shop to pick up a needle-felting kit of your own, and before you know it, you’ll be felting a tiny menagerie!

Hello, Malabrigo Nube.

Posted by Julia on September 24, 2013

Two new releases from Malabrigo in a row! This time, it’s not yarn at all, but unspun fleece for spinning or needle-felting. Meet Nube, soft merino wool roving in your favorite Malabrigo colorways.

We have four colors in stock: Azules, Aguas, Arco Iris, and Archangel.

Spinners and needle-felters, come by to see Malabrigo Nube in all its glory! Look for our small roving collection by the window in the front room, near our new button display. See you at the shop!