Events and happenings

Greetings to all my felt and fiber lovers!

Felt News

August 2017

Nalbinding class at the Folk School, April 2016

Classes!
My next scheduled class will be Nalbinding, June 8-10, 2018 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. This class typically fills up, so don't wait to sign up! The catalog at the Folk School is amazing, so don't miss a chance to go to "summer camp for grownups". :-)

I have a number of weekends available this winter to teach, and I love teaching, so if you have an idea for a class, guild workshop, or whatever, feel free to contact me! I teach felting, nuno felting, knitting, nalbinding, spinning, fleece prep/carding/combing, and tablet weaving.

Current Work In Progress - toe-up socks together on one long circular

WIP

I have several things in the works:

My Etsy store (laurafelts) actually has everything listed that I have finished and available! WOW!! Now I'm in the process of improving my photos and listings, and adding new items for the fall. I also take custom orders, although I don't have any listed, but feel free to contact me with any questions or requests.

I have been knitting since I was 5 years old, and pretty much non-stop since some time in high school. I typically design my own sweaters these days, so I am working on writing up the designs, making youtube videos of techniques I use, and documenting my projects on Ravelry. My youtube channel is LauraFelts1, and my Ravelry profile is LauraFelts! (Are you sensing a theme here? LOL) My latest video (which got added to the wrong channel, because I am still YouTube challenged!) is Knitting Back Backwards. Because entrelac leg warmers…

I'll be looking for my friends on social media!!

Out and About

If you live in the Middle Tennessee area, please put these events on your calendar!

Weaving: Eastern Tennessee's Part in History

When: Saturday, August 19, 2017 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Where: Bellevue (Nashville Public Library)

The Handweavers Guild of Tennessee welcomes author and weaver Philis Alvic for a presentation on Arrowcraft Weaving in Gatlinburg, and other weaving centers of eastern Tennessee

Also Saturday, October 21 is Fiber in the Boro, our fall Fiber Festival extraordinaire! 

Thanks for reading and I look forward to seeing and hearing from you! 

April Showers… Etsy… and Socks!

Happy Spring to all my fiber fans. It has been a cold and wet weekend, but at least I have had a chance to work on my purple socks!! I am working on both socks at the same time, one from each end of a large skein of sock yarn. My plan is to keep knitting until I run out of yarn, and it's looking like I may have knee highs by the time they are done!

I have at least 4 more sock projects in my sock project bag, so I'm going to keep knitting! These are my travel project, so I typically only work on them in waiting rooms, on trips, or when I get stuck in traffic.

I am not currently doing craft fairs, since my schedule doesn't really permit it. I am posting a lot more of my work for sale on my Etsy page, however, so I invite you to head over there to see what I have been up to.  Would you believe, belly dance costumes and belts? I'm not doing much bellydancing these days, and neither is my bestie, Kim, who I made some gorgeous costumes for a few years back! So much beading!!!! (This is why I now own a large floor stand magnifier light. Ha ha ha!)


I have my latest newsletter - if you would like to be added to my newsletter email list please let me know through my contact page! I'll only send them out once a quarter (if I meet my goal) so don't worry. And I'm not savvy enough to sell my email list, plus I would never do that to my friends!

Loom for sale

Hi all,

Slightly off-topic, but my LeClerc 4-harness Nilus loom is still for sale. I'm asking $700 for the loom with several different sized reeds. It comes with free weaving lessons, some yarn, and other equipment as well! Please contact me if you are interested, I'll be happy to deliver it, even, for the cost of gas. I need to get this loom out of my new studio to make room for me to work on felt!

Thanks!