Sat Nov 21 2009
When Kent resident Liz Flynn says "I Felt That," she really means it.
Flynn, 55, recently launched a new business by the same title to define her new craft, crazy felting.
Flynn is slated for holiday craft shows in the next couple of months including the Oddmall in Hudson on Saturday and Weaver's Holiday Mart in Tallmadge on Nov. 14 and 15.
She also will be at Gifts from the Heart Boutique at Landerhaven in Mayfield Heights on Nov. 22 and Frosty's Boutique in Alliance on Dec. 5.
The process of crazy felting involves creating her own fabric by combining different yarn fibers with roving (unspun yarn). In addition, she is knitting and felting items as well as producing wet felted items. The finished product is used to make purses, hats, hip pouches, belts and scarves for now.
Felting is a process of shrinking and bonding wool fibers together, through heat, agitation and moisture, causing the microscopic scales on wool fibers to interlock and tighten together. Often the felting is done in a washing machine but it can be done by hand as well.
Flynn, a former newspaper reporter and public relations consultant, turned her attention to a new art form after making necklaces with spoon bowls for the past three years.
Her "Spooning Around" business featured pieces that combined dried flowers, paint, glitter, buttons, wires and other knickknacks and encasing them in resin.
"I'm turning a lot of heads when people see these items because it looks like a knitted item in some ways but produces a more abstract finished product," Flynn said.
Those interested in seeing Flynn's upcoming show listings, should go to www.myspace.com/lizflyn.>
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