How to make an Etsy Treasury

Orit of http://OritDotanDolls.etsy.com shared these great tips on how to create an etsy treasury on our forum thread over on etsy. I thought I would share them here so we can easily check back on them.

I have been asked about the treasuries-how do I know when the treasury will open?
Well-you need to count from the last one until you will see the 333
Usually it is on pafe 17
When you will find the time that it will be 333-you need to be at the treasury 10 minutes before as lately it does not fixed exactly at the time it is written and to wait
then, when the box open-do not dream-click the first letter if you do not want to loose it
Advice:
-Prepare the treasury on the sketch
-Also you can follow the instructions [at the buttom of the treasury page
-After you post the treasury-go to the promotion thread and open a thread or go to a thread that is already there
This way you will have more comments
Important -in my point of view-to comment on all the treasuries you see at that thread

Yes-it is a lot of work BUT we can have better sales-all of us -if we will create many treasuries

Also lately allow poeple to feature one item from their shop -so -that is one more good reason to make this effert

Sorry about my English, I guess I have many mistakes BUT i am trying to get better all the time..

Hugs to you dear ladies
orit
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Here are the instructions of how to create a treasury
you will find there the poster sketch, you can add it to your favorites and prepare the treasury BEFORE you are trying to catch one so you will be able to create beautiful treasury
http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/how-to-...-and-bolts-688/

ruetabega
If you will prepare the treasury on poster sketch -it will take you couple of minutes to copy it to the treasury
I do it so fast now that most of the times I am the one that open the thread of the new treasuries
If I am not the faster one -I join thread that already open
Hope it helps

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.

Fridays feature, NearlyNoodle

Todays friday feature is

http://dogfacegirls.etsy.com

From today onwards the friday featured NFEST artists will be cross posted in the NFEST blog.

http://nfest.blpgspot.com
and in my blog

http://benmcfuzzylugs.blogspot.com

Any NFEST artist wishing to participate please post in this thread

http://feltingforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2669&start=15




What got you started needle felting?
My friend and business partner Geri Williams

How long have you been needle felting?
15 months

Describe your style of work
Somewhat realistic

How do you promote your items?
Blog,website,etsy

What/who inspires you?
My three whippets





Can you remember what the 1st thing you made was?
A whippet

What are you working on right now?
A horse

If you could only save one of your items from a fire which one would it be?
A moose that I made

How-To: Make A Painless Needlefelted Christmas Decoration

Hi! I am Morgan, a.k.a Ewes Your Imagination, a proud member of the NFEST team and the Felting Forum. I asked my mom if she would be the guinea pig for this tutorial, and she happily agreed! About 15 minutes into the project, we had already altered some things, and she was quickly tiring of the stabbing process! Now that I think about it, Dr. Phil was on, and she seemed to be listening less to my instructions and more to the television. I came home and realized there was no way of simplifying all the changes we made, so I sat down and start to finish did this tutorial like I originally planned.

If you have ever pulled out your wool and needles around people who haven't heard of needlefelting, you probably get the same question I get, "Can you teach me?" My answer is usually "No," not only because I am a lousy teacher, but also knowing how much damage a sharp, downward-barbed needle can do to one's fingers. So I hesitate to let the interested kids (and some adults!) I know start stabbing. How do you share the joy of your craft, without sharing the pain?

I wanted to make a Christmas ornament with my mom, who doesn't have any needlefelting experience yet, and thought a good template, or stencil, would be a cookie cutter! I remembered all the fun cookie cutters we used growing up, most of them in Christmas shapes. So we found the standard Gingerbread Man cookie cutter and started stabbing away! The high walls were perfect to run the needle straight up and down without having to put your digits in harm's way.

So if you want to get someone with tender, innocent fingers started in this fun and addictive craft, try some things you have in your house first, and in no time they will pick up the basics of needlefelting.

1) What you'll need: felting needle (I used a size 40), foam,
cookie cutter with no bar across the top, various colors
of wool roving depending on what you are making.




2) Put your cookie cutter on your foam work
surface, and start laying wool over the top, being
sure to lay wool over the edges, and in different
directions.

3) Push the wool down, and keep adding
more wool until the cookie cutter
is loosely filled with the roving.

4) Start pushing the needle straight up
and down along the perimeter of the
cookie cutter, and continue all the way around, leaving the middle for later.

5) Before you go any further, it's good to
lift up the cookie cutter, and pull the wool
off the foam, so it doesn't get too stuck in
the foam. If you've felted all the way
around the inside edge, it should
hold it's shape well.

6) Now, push the wool back into the
cookie cutter and felt all the wool
in the middle down until it is uniformly felted.

7) Now you can remove the cookie cutter and you should have a semi-firm felted shape.






You can start adding details any way you like, I chose to use
the standard Gingerbread Man embellishments.



You could embellish with beads, sequins, embroidery, or anything you feel like! To make these into hanging tree ornaments, simply sew a loop of thread near the top and tie a knot. Metallic thread looks good for this. The snowman at the top of the page was made using the same cookie cutter, but my mom added some length to the legs after step 6, then gently wet felted, dried and shaped the whole body until it was what she wanted. Then she and I added the carrot shaped nose, and the black eyes and mouth. It resembles a primitive snowman doll she found a while back, and I can't wait to make more!

Also, if you are helping teach someone who is either really impatient, or just really young, you could skip most of the time-consuming steps, and just have them trace the body from a piece of pre-made felt, then just needlefelt the details. They would make good easy hanging ornaments, or even special tags to adorn presents. Happy Felting!

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,