{"id":53,"date":"2008-01-21T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-12-14T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T20:24:04","slug":"inspiration-starter-a-little-felting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration Starter &#8211; A Little Felting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/littlefelt.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"229\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/?attachment_id=229\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/littlefelt.jpg?fit=400%2C493&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,493\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"littlefelt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/littlefelt.jpg?fit=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/littlefelt.jpg?fit=400%2C493&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-229\" title=\"littlefelt\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/littlefelt-243x300.jpg?resize=243%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/littlefelt.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/littlefelt.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another little fabric collage that I incorporated a little bit of needle felting.\u00a0 First I used the hand felter to attach the houndstooth fabric to the brown felt.\u00a0 This is a great way to attach fabric without having to sew by hand or machine. I also made the little nest using the hand felter.\u00a0 First I cut a small circle of felt, laid some brown roving on it, and felted.\u00a0 Then I laid several different fibers around the edge of the circle.\u00a0 Here is where you can really play.\u00a0 I used different colors of brown, and even some eyelash fibers.\u00a0 I felted these fibers very lightly, and then felted more in the center to create a tighter felted area for the glass bead eggs.\u00a0 This felting will probably find it&#8217;s way into a lot of my fabric collages.\u00a0 Have you tried it?\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to hear and see what you are doing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This is another little fabric collage that I incorporated a little bit of needle felting.\u00a0 First I used the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6473C-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}