FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How do you make your sculptures?
Needle or “dry” felting is the process of turning wool fiber into felt using barbed needles that force the wool fiber to attach to itself. (Industrial felt is made using thousands of these needles.) The felting needle is punched or pushed repeatedly through the wool fiber which locks the fiber together. I create unusually dense, solid, self-supporting structures with fine surface detailing out of nothing but wool fiber, lots of particular, tiny decisions, and an astonishing amount of hours.
Don’t you need water to felt?
Nope, just my felting needles.
Do you use molds to create your shapes?
Nope, seriously I just use my felting needles.
Is there anything inside your sculptures or are they entirely made of wool?
All wool, almost all of the time. Foam makes creating my desired textures and shapes surprisingly difficult. It also feels pretty yucky to poke a needle into foam instead of lovely wool fiber. (In the "Control" installation, the yellow desk and the big green block are the only two pieces I’ve felted around foam.)
Do you teach classes? Can you come to my town and do a workshop?When time allows, I love to teach the people. Contact me if your organization would like to arrange a workshop.
Where can I get supplies?
Most places with supplies for spinning yarn will probably carry felting needles and roving. (There are lots of online resources, too.)
Can I buy your artwork?
A lot of the pieces you see online are already sold, but do contact me for a list of what’s available, or if you’re interested in a custom piece.
I like to needle felt too, and my work looks different than yours. How do you get your sculptures so smooth and hard instead of fuzzy and squishy?
This is a fairly impossible question to answer simply, especially over the internet. My best advice is this: working in patches, add very thin wisps of fiber using teeny tiny pokes all over the surface. Teeny tiny pokes help tac the fiber layer down, forming a smoother outer layer.
Can I keep up with you on the internet?
Please do, here’s a link to all the other links: about.me/moxie
Needle or “dry” felting is the process of turning wool fiber into felt using barbed needles that force the wool fiber to attach to itself. (Industrial felt is made using thousands of these needles.) The felting needle is punched or pushed repeatedly through the wool fiber which locks the fiber together. I create unusually dense, solid, self-supporting structures with fine surface detailing out of nothing but wool fiber, lots of particular, tiny decisions, and an astonishing amount of hours.
Don’t you need water to felt?
Nope, just my felting needles.
Do you use molds to create your shapes?
Nope, seriously I just use my felting needles.
Is there anything inside your sculptures or are they entirely made of wool?
All wool, almost all of the time. Foam makes creating my desired textures and shapes surprisingly difficult. It also feels pretty yucky to poke a needle into foam instead of lovely wool fiber. (In the "Control" installation, the yellow desk and the big green block are the only two pieces I’ve felted around foam.)
Do you teach classes? Can you come to my town and do a workshop?When time allows, I love to teach the people. Contact me if your organization would like to arrange a workshop.
Where can I get supplies?
Most places with supplies for spinning yarn will probably carry felting needles and roving. (There are lots of online resources, too.)
Can I buy your artwork?
A lot of the pieces you see online are already sold, but do contact me for a list of what’s available, or if you’re interested in a custom piece.
I like to needle felt too, and my work looks different than yours. How do you get your sculptures so smooth and hard instead of fuzzy and squishy?
This is a fairly impossible question to answer simply, especially over the internet. My best advice is this: working in patches, add very thin wisps of fiber using teeny tiny pokes all over the surface. Teeny tiny pokes help tac the fiber layer down, forming a smoother outer layer.
Can I keep up with you on the internet?
Please do, here’s a link to all the other links: about.me/moxie