NEEDLEFELT TEAM work on FLICKR

I tried to put this slide show of our team FLICKR group photos in the sidebar of this blog, but it was too wide. It is too beautiful, not to share. GREAT ARTWORK everyone!!! It's so fun to see how many different styles of needlefelt there are. If you get a chance to kick back and cruise through the slideshow, it's a lot of fun. You can click on pictures to go right to the flickr, too!

SALE! Original Needlefelt Fiber Art 11/22 11/23

The Needle Felting Etsy Street Team is proud to host their first Holiday SALE Great discounts all weekend - Plus,***CONTEST***WIN A FREE NEEDLE FELTING KIT OR AN Original NUSHKIE Fairy Art Doll! No purchase necessary. Everyone is invited to enter! Stroll through the shops on this post to find the Needle in the Haystack! More details at the bottom of this post.


Holiday Sale November 22nd and 23rd - All day.

Find the Felting Needle in the Haystack
And win the Needle Felting Kit Prize!
Just visit the shops with sales and look for the letters
N - E - E - D - L - E - F - E - L- T
in the descriptions of items for sale.
When you've found them, email the shop names in order
(example: fufukitty = N) to our team shop via etsy convo http://Needlefelt.etsy.com

Correct answers will be placed in a pool and
Two winners will be drawn at random. Winners will be announced on this blog. So stay tuned!

NFEST Oct08 Challenge "Things With Eyes"

October's "Things with Eyes" Themed Challenge Entries are in! Beautiful, creative, and diverse. Thank you to everyone who thought about it, created these entries and shared your creations. The Needle Felting Etsy Street Team is proud to present this gorgeous collage. (To see a larger view, click on the image.) If you'd like to see more of these artist's creations, please click on the links below and stop in to see their shops.

Coraldee

Creations By Corina

Cutting Edge Creations

Felt Mates

GFelted

Motivated Motion

My Favorite Shop

"Autumn" NFEST September 2008 Challenge

Collage of all the gorgeous entries for the Needle Felt Etsy Street Team's September 2008 Challenge of "Autumn". Thank you everyone who entered your stunning and diverse creations! (Click on the image to really zoom in on your favorites.)

Orit Dotan Dolls

Ewes Your Imagination

Gourmet Felted

Flights of Whimsy

Nanda Handcrafted

Pitbull Lady Designs

Fufu Kitty

Unwavering Faith

Stay tuned for our next challenge collage of "Things with Eyes" coming in the beginning of November.

Needle Felt Etsy Treasuries-Page 3

We have a couple of active Needle Felt curations in the treasuries of Etsy on page 3! We just need a little help from our friends now. Please use all twelve of your clicks and click on all the pictures in these treasuries and leave a comment which will drive these treasuries up the "Hot" list and in front of Etsy admin eyes and maybe onto the front page in front of all of etsy's eyes.

Treasury by Orit

Treasury by Gina

Needlefelt Team mates FEATURED!

Check out all the ways our fantastic artist friends are being featured!

The Funky Felter Foxgloves and Intimate Forest are all featured in "Interweave Felt 2008" Magazine this month! You can get your own magazine in various locations or online at Interweave Felt 2008 Special Edition

Gourmet Felted will be featured in the February issue of "Teddy Bear Review" Magazine, due to hit stands in December.

New member Suzees Jubileez was featured on Beachcombers Cove Blog

There are even more of our outstanding artists being featured in the near future, but mums the word until the appointed time. :)

If you get a chance grab the magazines or stop by the blog feature and show your support for needlefelt and our artists!

CONGRATULATIONS to these hardworking and talented needlefelt artists!

TEAM MEETING 09/17/08 2pm EST Virtual Lab Teams Room

The meeting room is reserved!

We will meet in the Virtual Labs Teams Room on Wednesday, 09/17/08 at 2 pm EST. Bring yourself, your ideas, your questions. See you there.

Here is the schedule of events for the Virtual Labs in case you want to check out other interesting meetings. http://www.etsy.com/virtual_labs.php

Here is a world clock to figure out what time our meeting will be in your part of the world http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

Here is where you can learn about how the virtual labs work http://www.etsy.com/storque/section/etsyNews/article/etsy-launches-the-virtual-labs/622/

Please ask if you have any questions. It will be great to have input from everyone on the team.

Needle Felter's Poem

GFelted shared this post on our NFEST etsy PROMO forum thread

"someone left this lovely poem on needle felting on my blog for my best comment contest"
http://gourmetfelted.wordpress.com/

I sit here in my quiet space
Putting aside the day I’ve faced
Eagerly pulling my basket out
This is MY moment without a doubt.

So soft, the fiber between my fingers
I only wish this time could linger
For so many ideas run through my mind
If only I could find a little more time!

In and out the needle goes
What shape is next? Maybe toes?
Maybe eyelashes, or a tiny pout….
Alas, evening turns night…time has run out!

Yet tomorrow is another day,
I’ll do my work and then I’ll play!
I’ll sit there in my quiet space
and felt away the day I faced.
~cea~

Needle Felt Team Challenge Collage - Halloween Theme - August 2008

Here's a compilation of all entries in the NFEST August Needle Felting Challenge. (Click on the image to see it in Large View). Please search for the "NFEST" tag at http://www.etsy.com to view more great creations by other talented members of the Needle Felters Etsy Street Team!

Featured Artists:
Ben McFuzzylugs, Candid Studios, Glass Dragon Bears Etc, Gypsy Harte, Handwork Naturals, Karen Krafts, Knits and Notions, Orit Dotan Dolls, Pit Bull Lady Designs, Shisie, Squeezles Galore, Tecopia, Tizib, Violet Moon Fairy

Check out our July Felting Challenge entries!

Check out our June Felting Challenge entries!

Check out our May Felting Challenge entries!

Mini Monday: Mary Jane's Attic

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade Maryjanesattic.etsy.com

Enjoy beautiful fiber and needlefelting supplies from Mary Jane's Attic!

Mini Monday: RoseThistleArtworks

Etsy Buy Handmade RoseThistleArtworks

Welcome to our new feature--Mini Monday! Every Monday we will feature one shop owner from the NFEST Team on Etsy. Today it's our fearless leader, the founder of the Needlefelters on Etsy Team, Gina of RoseThistleArtworks!

Check out our April Felting Challenge entries!

Needlefelting to Treasure

Enjoy this terrific treasury of needlefelted goodies, curated by our own Thinkoutsidethebox.

Check out our March Felting Challenge entries!

Neat new stuff

A quick perusal of the NFEST tag at Etsy found...

A very cool needlefelted griffin by Blackberry Downs


Julie Persons' fabulous teal needlefelted flower pin



Lady Spring needlefelted sculpture by FaerieRebecca (hey, that's me!)



Rose Thistle Artworks' lovely custom horse woolitures, made just for you



A spooky needlefelted white pumpkin with a skull face by DraigAthar

There are many more talented fiber artists selling on Etsy--do be sure to check them out!

FREE Needle Felting Tutorial

Welcome Needle Felters,
FaerieRebecca of http://faerierebecca.etsy.com/ has invited me to write some posts for the NFEST blog. Thank-you Rebecca!

Allow me to begin by introducing myself: My name is Linda Utz. My Etsy shop is http://needlefeltingfans.etsy.com/ I have been felting for about 6 months now and having a ball with it. It is so much fun to see a clump of fluffy Wool become a felted work of artistic creation. So much can be created with Wool as our medium.

I am a member of the Wonderful Google group called 'Needlefelters'. You can visit the group here: 'Needlefelters Group'

OK enough introductions. On to the good stuff... :-)

I was visiting a lot of our members websites and blogs yesterday and found some wonderful goodies for us needle felters.

Today I would like to share a Wonderful tutorial I found on Charlotte's Creative Web . It is called 'Needle Felted Mystery Critter with Wire Armature Tutorial'.

I don't know about the rest of you but I have never felted over a wire armature before. Charlotte's instructions and pictures are very easy to follow and make it look so easy. I will have to give it a go and see how mine turns out. :-)

Just a couple pictures to wet your appetite :-)



Charlotte says this basic wire armature can be used to create a wide assortment of critters.

Thank-you Charlotte for this Grrrreat Tutorial.

Charlotte has other wonderful tutorials and goodies on her blog. You can visit her blog here:

Charlotte's Creative Web

Charlotte also has an Etsy shop:

http://charlottesweb.etsy.com/

Shop Etsy shops for all your felting and crafty needs.

It's good etsy karma!

Have fun felting!

Till next time,

Etsy One Million Picture Challenge

We all know that there are thousands of talented artists on Etsy with millions of gorgeous things for sale. Now there's a challenge to get us all to showcase our beautiful items through the Etsy One Million Pictures challenge on Flickr. The challenge is to see how many pictures each Street Team can upload to the pool. So, get your photos up on the NFEST Flickr site, then tag them with NFEST and share them with the Million Photo Challenge group. Let's get NFEST artisans the attention we deserve!