HAND FELTED JEWELRY AND BEADS: 25 Artful Designs by Carol Huber Cypher
Felt-bead jewelry is fashionable! It’s showing up on runways, specialty stores, and galleries around the globe. Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads offers a contemporary and artistic approach to this popular craft—and then takes it a step beyond through beaded embellishment.
No other hand felting book is as comprehensive, as Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads includes both needle-felting and wet-feltmaking techniques covering flat, flat with a resist, 3-dimensional, use of armatures and mediums, color, inclusions, shape, and texture.
And, these techniques are taught step-by-step in a friendly and accessible manner through the creation of beautiful objects of personal adornment. You’ll learn how to make the felted equivalent of lampworked beads, turquoise focal beads, mokume gane look-alikes, and so much more.
Try your hand at the Carved and Beaded Bangle, the unforgettable Flower Lariat, Compositions in Felt and Glass (strung necklaces and bracelets), or the imaginative Felted Bead Diva’s Necklace.
The first-time felter will be guided into this creative and fulfilling fiber art while the seasoned feltmaker will find inspiration, new tips and tricks to add to their repertoire; everyone will relish the gallery of inspirational pieces. Let your imagination soar and get felting!
120 pages, softcover
#210 - Knited-Felted Christmas Ornaments
Mini Stocking, Mitten, Bell, and Santa boot.
In worsted wt. wool.
Henrietta & Family (Knitted/Felted)
Stuffed softly, Henrietta makes a very good friend. With some weight added to her stuffing, she can be used as a door stop.
Worsted weight. Size 10-1/2 needles.
Pacific Northwest Shawl
Seagulls, evergreen trees, sand dollars, water, fish, and shells are depicted in lace on this garter stitch shawl.
Designed by Evelyn Clark of Seattle, WA
S-2001 - Peace Shawl Pattern from Fiber Trends
Men and women join hands outside an evergreen forest on a starry night to celebrate the message of peace on this triangular garter stitch shawl.
Designed by Evelyn A. Clark of Seattle, WA
S-2002 - Landscape Shawl Pattern
Rows of eyelet separate chevrons of garter, seed, stockinette, moss, and reverse stockinette creating a landscape of texture. May be made in lace, fingering, sport, dk worsted weight yarns. Pattern includes instructions for a small shaped scarf.
S-2003 Sheep Shawl
Sunshine ripples down on a village surrounded by orchards, sunflowers, and sheep.
S-2004 - Field of Flowers Shawl Pattern
A field of flowers is bordered by waves of old shale on this shetland style square lace shawl or throw. Designed for dk, fingering and lace weight yarns, use all one or multiple colors. Shown in Helen's Lace from Lorna's Laces and Woolpak 8 ply.
Butterfly Garden Scarf, Shawl, or Throw Pattern from Fiber Trends
Lace butterflies soar above a border of blossoms on these square, garter stitch lace pieces. Knit from the center out in circular garter stitch lace and cast off in a simple picot edging.
Change yarn weight to vary the finished size. Using one stitch count, lace weight will make an elegant square scarf; Shetland jumper or sport weight will make a warm shawl; worsted weight a cozy throw.
S-2006 - River Scarf & Stole Pattern from Fiber Trends
Inside a border of eyelet grass, rows of lace ripple like a river through the length of this lace weight scarf and stole. The end edges are cast off in a simple scalloped picot lace.
