Heartfelt: 25 Projects for Stitched and Felted Accessories

I bought this book after borrowing it from a friend because of the variety of projects and ideas for embellishments. I am a fairly experienced knitter and have felted other projects.What this book provides: a collection of creative patterns that makes use of recycled woolen clothing or machine-knitted swatches. The author says hand-knitted "fabric" can be used, but may prove disheartening to see how small it gets once felted. (I plan to handknit my stuff, anyway.)What this book does NOT provide: A detailed set of hand knitting instructions, like the number of skeins to buy, size of needle, how many stitches to cast on, how to make a stockinette stitch, how big a swatch to knit. Those details are left to the individual knitter.I do recommend the book, tempered with reservations about its audience.

This is my favorite book of many purchased for the purpose of artistically crafting useful things out of old wool sweaters. There are many great designs with patterns here, for things I am eager to start making out of the many washed and felted thriftstore sweaters I've collected! Some of the surface decorations are not to my taste, but there is lots of inspiration is in the basic designs. These are designs for objects one would pay good money for in high-end botiques - not cutsie crafts that are not much good to anyone! The directions are quite clear, with good illustrations. Several decorative patterns sewn on to the projects do require a sewing machine that can do free-motion embroidery. But with creativity, one could adapt these designs for hand-sewn embellishment.

This is not an ordinary felting book. It does have projects that can be done by a beginner, but mostly offers projects and ideas for intermediate/advanced crafters. Owning an embroidery machine is also an advantage for many of the projects. I really like this book, it offered ideas to do things with felt that I hadn't tried or even thought of trying. If you've worked with felted wool already, this is a great book.

There are some sweet projects here. If you are interested in making items from old wool sweaters, this will give you lots of ideas. The book has patterns to make gifts for friends, and especially children. Also the directions for embelishing the items are clever.

This is a book with many creative and interesting projects. The pages are really interesting to look at and the projects are simple but different. Very happy with this purchase.

It is a good book for making accessories for yourself or to give as gifts. I would recommend it to someone who likes to make things like this.

the book is easy to understand, but I have not had a chance to try any projects out yet, will let you know after Christmas.

I needed some ideas and help making mittens and shoes from felt. This little book had it all. I haven't been able to duplicate the machine embroidery the author uses to add pizzaz to her creations but I am trying. Practice makes perfect.

I bought this book because I loved Teresa Searle's  Easy Felted Accessories  and Amazon was showing that these two books are being bought together frequently. Since there was no "look inside" product preview, I just trusted the words. Now I can see that the two books are 100% identical. Heartfelt is the U.S. edition of Easy Felted Accessories. So it's 5 stars for contents, but no star for information. Easy Felted Accessories

a me piacciono molto i bottoni e l'idea di usarli al posto di perline e decori vari mi piace tantissimo. l'effetto lo trovo favoloso e quindi ho preso questo libro che ha davvero MILLE proposte TUTTE bellissime e ispirosissime... tra i tanti libri che ho presto sul feltro questo è il piu' entusiasmante.. ovviamente per i miei gusti. lo consiglio calorosamente.

Inspiring, diverse felt projects from beginner to more advanced. Glad I purchased.

Very nice book. It has easy to follow instructions and great pictures. I am happy to add it to my collection. I bought this from a used bookstore. It arrived on time and in good condition.

Nicht ganz was es verspricht, aber schöne einfache Anregungen.Es geht hier mehr um das Nähen von Filzstoffen.Gut da keine Vorschau existiert, war das Überraschen vorprogrammiert.