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Felting with Embellishment Fibers: Our Top Tips

By Hannah Arose 9 Comments

Tips and Tricks for Felting with Embellishment Fibers by The Tin Thimble

Half the fun of felting, whether you’re nuno, wet, or needle felting, is incorporating all those luxurious, beautiful, textural fibers other than wool. Embellishment fibers can vary widely and include cotton, silk, animal fibers, yarn, threads, linen, nylon and soooo much more.  I sat down with my mom, Sharon, our in-house felting extraordinaire, to pick […]

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Tips and Tricks for Felting with Cotton Cheesecloth

By Hannah Arose 10 Comments

Our tips and tricks for felting on and with cotton cheesecloth by The Tin Thimble

Join Sharon and Hannah as The Tin Thimble talks tips and tricks for nuno felting with cotton cheesecloth and achieving a more casual look.

Tagged With: cheesecloth, Nuno Felting

How to Solve 5 Common Nuno Felting Problems

By Hannah Arose 21 Comments

We’ve taught a lot of people how to nuno felt. In our eleven years of business, we’ve introduced thousands (literally!) of students to the beautiful art of nuno felting. This means we’ve met a lot of incredible people, seen many draw-dropping felted items and also seen our fair share of mishaps. Today, we’ll be sharing […]

Tagged With: Felting, students, troubleshooting

Our Recent Favorite Class Results

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We are so dang lucky to teach so many incredible students. Each workshop at The Tin Thimble is full of students who we have the pleasure of meeting, instructing and applauding. We love the curiosity, open mindedness, and gumption that our students display when they join us and dive into making something. With so many […]

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Shibori Press – A DIY Tool to Dye Fabric Yardage

By Hannah Arose 4 Comments

Those of you who follow us on Instagram, or keep a close eye on the shop going-ons, know that Sharon has been on a bit of a Shibori and Indigo kick lately. Dare we say, she’s a bit…obsessed? It’s okay, cause we’re fueling her obsession by asking her ten thousand questions about indigo, encouraging her […]

Tagged With: Indigo Dyeing, Shibori

Eleven Years in Business

By Hannah Arose 2 Comments

Back in April, we celebrated our 11th year in business by hosting our annual student art show. Every year when it comes time for me to write the post re-capping this annual celebration, I find myself at a loss of words. How can I possibly say the magnitude of our gratitude to all of you? […]

Our Favorite Felting Tools

By Hannah Arose 3 Comments

Today we’re going to do a quick run-through of our favorite felting tools for both nuno and wet methods. If you’ve just registered for a workshop with us, or are just getting into felting on your own, this will be a great introduction to some tools of the trade. Felting is a creative process, and […]

Tagged With: Bottle Top Sprinkler, Felting, Felting Kit, Felting Tools, Nuno Felting, Wet Felting

Indigo and Shibori – Inspired to Experiment

By Hannah Arose 8 Comments

Mom and dad visited Emma, Chris and the new little grand baby in Japan this last October.  Emma lives in Okazaki not that far from the famous shibori town – Arimatsu – so two rainy but fantastic days were spent soaking in all of the shibori and indigo blue inspiration that is Arimatsu.  Emma was […]

Tagged With: Indigo Dyeing, japan, Shibori

Five Practices to Make your Botanical Dyeing Sustainable

By Hannah Arose 3 Comments

Hello there! It’s Hannah writing to you today. Mom (AKA, Sharon) called me the other day and asked me “Have we ever talked about how the process of botanical dyeing is sustainable?”. Why, no, mom, we haven’t.  She has been botanical dyeing (eco printing, botanical imprinting, whatever you’d like to call it) for many years […]

Tagged With: Botanical Dye, sharon mansfield

Felting with the Guys – Wet Felted Slippers

By Hannah Arose 4 Comments

Just after Christmas, Sharon showed her grandson, Colby, and her son-in-law, Daniel, how to make their own wet felted slippers. Being the teenager he is, Colby had grown out of the slippers he’d made with Sharon two years back. It was time for a new pair!   The guys started by creating duct tape molds […]

Tagged With: family, Felting, wet felted slippers

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