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Sam Sinclair from Sams Softies about Needle Felting

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Sam Sinclair from Sams Softies

1. What are your favourite needles to use?

My favourite needle would be the 38 twisted. Perfect all rounder and a great needle for finishing off.

2. What is your favourite type of wool to work with?

My favorable wool is New Zealand carded. It's so easy and fast to felt. And can be used for both wet and dry felting.

3. What is the worst piece of advice you keep hearing for needle felters?

The worst advice for beginners is merino wool tops. Not only is it hard to felt, it's more expensive than traditional carded. (I certainly wish I'd had that advice when I started out)

4. What common mistakes do people make when they start out?

The common mistakes are expecting excellence immediately and getting disheartened in the craft. Practise makes perfect. Some of my early pieces are totally cringeworthy. But take photos anyway, helps you to see where you're improving.

5. What is the one thing a beginner could learn today that would make a difference to their work?

Best advice would be to sketch out your idea first. Break the object into shapes and assemble, practise makes perfect and most of all. Have fun.

Needle felting is so therapeutic, just go where the fibres take you.

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Elin Thomas - Fibre Artist

Introducing the one of a kind

Elin Thomas

with her delightful and very original fibre art!

Elin Thomas is the artist with a simple mission 'to make beautiful and unique items, using the best materials available'. With an attention to detail and love for texture Elin, makes petri dish sculptures and wearable art that put the fun into fungi!

Elin's art is a variety of mixed media compositions created using a range of different techniques such as crocheting, needle felting and sewing. The results are beautiful, breathtaking, garden-like petri dishes with a magical quality that is hard to resist, even for a true germaphobe! 

Elin is originally from Oxford in England and has exhibited around the world, recently being comissioned to create a Petri dish installation at  the Oxford Natural History Museum as part of 'Bacterial World' exhibition.

For more information about her and her work take a look at  https://www.elinthomas.com/ to visit her shop or catch her on Etsy shop elinart to see the range of beautiful items she has created that you can own. You can also visit her blog ELIN@Elintm.blogspot for an inside look into what makes Elin tick!

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