Meanwhile, I played around with some narrow leftover straps of the chopped-up sweaters; curled them up, pinned them together, made some stitches - and voilá! I had some funny spiral felt beads in my hand!
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- Remember the what-if pre-felt?
- Free Motion Faces
- Yggdrasil and a red miniquilt
- Stone hanging - one of my big projects
- Embellishing, recycling and whatiffing
- Whatiffing 24-32, Hearts
- Whatiffing 20-23, rainbow colours
- A very inspiring book!
- Flowery freestyle embroidery
- Whatiffing 11-19, this time it's glittering stuff!
- More machine embroidery
- Whatiffing with free machine embroidery
- "It's just another patch ..."
- Spiral felt beads - from the leftovers
- Recycling and Whatiffing a slipover ...
- Beaded ring
- A little Whatiffing with embroidery
- "It's only what we learn while we're doing what se...
- Sara's Whatiffing Project
- Playing with beads and wire
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- The Joy of Handspinning, USA
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- "Andean Folk Knits" by Marcia Lewandowski
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- "Beadwork" by Caroline Crabtree and Pam Stallebrass
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- "Celtic, Viking & Anglo-Saxon Embroidery" by Jan Messent
- "Contemporary Knitting for Textile Artists" by Ruth Lee
- "Creative Felting" by Lizzie Houghton
- "Creative Recycling in Embroidery" by Val Holmes
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- "D.I.Y. Design it yourself" by Ellen Lupton/Maryland Institute College of Art
- "Eco Colour - botanical dyes for beautiful textiles" by India Flint
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- "Everyday Sacred" by Sue Bender
- "Felt - handmade style" by India Flint and Toyoko Sugikawa
- "Filz Spiel - the felted play" by Annette Quentin-Stoll
- "Free & easy stitch style" by Poppy Treffry
- "Färben mit Pflanzen" by Dorit Berger
- "Gesichter - Faces" by Sara Lechner
- "Handmade Books for a Healthy Planet" by Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
- "Handspun Revolution" by pluckyfluff/Lexi Boeger
- "Illustration.Play - Craving For The Extraordinary" by viction:workshop ltd.
- "In a Patchwork Garden" by Janet Bolton
- "Inka - Nordisch Stricken mit lateinamerikanischen Inspirationen" by Marianne Isager
- "Intertwined" by pluckyfluff/Lexi Boeger
- "KnitKnit - Profiles + Projects from Knitting's New Wave" by Sabrina Gschwandtner
- "Knitting in the Old Way" by Priscilla A.Gibson-Roberts and Deborah Robson
- "Natural Dyeing" by Jackie Crook
- "Painting With Stitches" by Sue Dove
- "rouge. Motifs de broderie traditionnelle et au point de croix" by Agnès Delage-Calvet a.o.
- "Scandinavian Stitches" by Kajsa Wikman
- "Second Skin" by India Flint
- "Spin Art" by Jacey Boggs
- "Spin Control" by Amy King
- "Spinning designer yarns" by Diane Varney
- "Spinning in the Old Way" by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts
- "Stitched Textile Collage" by Lucille Toumi
- "Textile Natur/Textile Nature" by Elsbeth Nusser-Lampe
- "The Art and Craft of Appliqué" by Juliet Bawden
- "The Art of Beadwork" by Valerie Hector
- "The impatient embroiderer" by Jayne Emerson
- "The New Crewel" by Katherine Shaughnessy
- "Verwurzelt fliegen" by Cambra Maria Skadé
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