Nuno Felt Cushion

Wonderful spring weather, a cup of herbal tea and a sunny place with a nuno felt cushion.

Do I need something else? ...

I go and search for a felt which wants to get more free stitching on it's surface...

Black Felt With Highlights

That is how the magic forest looks like in the night. Black on black.

Only the moon dispenses some light.

You see the outline of the brushwood. And you see the sky...

The answer of my felt-brainteaser

(...stinks already scraffy: I planned to answer this question a few days after asking. That was more than one and a half months ago. That isn't blog-abstinence but already blog-impotence...)

That is my shaman.

He is about 2 m high.

What do shamans do?
They are healers of body and soul.

He has acces to worlds which are closed for the average person.
(Luckily there is some kind of "awaking" nowadays: more and more people deal with energies, spirituality, esoterism...)

The shaman has

directly contact to the universe.
Universe...Milky way. Solar system.

Sun and Moon and stars...
Shaman as a guiding light...
The directory...
The confident point.
In the middle.
In the circle.
The most beautiful symbol.

The wheel rolls ahead.
It has 12 spokes.
A year has 12 months.
Time rolls ahead.

Solar systems rotate.

We all could be shamans of our lives. But not everybody is awake to this. But this can be changed. If one wants to change. Then you get a key...

Creativity means to have the "third eye" open and realize things that others doesn't realize. Being the earth which gathers and cradles the grain until its blossom. The grain which isn't ours. Its a gift from somewhere else.

Creative dealing heals. Felting can help the healing of the mind and the soul.

Shamans knew the basic material: wool felt.

Brainstorming: What is this?

Carnival of Fleeces

Busó (say busho)Procession in Mohács (say Mohatsh) - a small town in the South of Hungary.
A many hundred years old tradition for scaring away winter...











The busó-kit:

- unique carved wooden mask with one sheep fleece on the sides and on the back
- a "coat" made of four fleeces
- cattle cords as a belt
- traditional fabric trousers
- traditional knitted socks
- traditional leather footwear
- fabric shoulder bag
- cattle bells and ratches for making biiiig noise and a wooden mace


If you ever wondered where the inspiration for the Beauty's Beast came from, I think you can be sure now.

If you see these guys live you also understand how the Beauty could love that monster.





They look terrific! So huge, so strong and soooo fluffy! Why wouldn't weak women want to fall in the arms of one of them? (And felters could have their own wool-donor at home...)



The fleeces are hungarian merino or the unique hungarian breed called "racka".
How nice it would be if those fleeces would be felted...(poor sheep)

In the evening a big straw figure which symbolises the winter is ending on a great bonfire.
Winter ALWAYS escapes after the busó carnival...

And the winner are...

My frog bead felt tutorials go to

Iraildes, Cathy and Electra. Have a nice time girls! And don't forget feeding him. Or her?

One World One Heart

<<< Get this funny felt tutorial for free now!







HOW? Watch this:

This year I'll travel again on the international magic carpet of One World One Heart hosted by Lisa the whimsical bohemian. And on this carpet there is a lot of place for about 1000 bloggers in the world and their many gifts.

What OWOH is about? Read it here !

As I started teaching felting this year you can win a CorNit felt tutorial here for felting a frogbead. The ready frogbead can be used for funny jewelry, as a cell phone pendant or just for hiding in a pocket as a little friend. I'll give away 3 tutorials as an electronic .pdf file with many photos and funny pics.

If you'd like to get one of them please leave a comment to THIS posting.

The winners will be announced on 15th February. I'll contact the winners per e-mail so if you don't have a blog write your address into the comment as well.

And now let's say together a loud CROAK !

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