Ah, the good old hottie. Keeping you warm on winter nights since… your whole life. Here’s a stylish and sensible way to keep that hot water bottle safely tucked away from little ones’ skin – and it’s just one of a great range of cute hottie covers available now from The Felted Room.
A real treat for your feet, Littlest Pip Knits‘ hand knitted socks are luxuriously made from a blend of wool with nylon for added strength. Each pair is knitted in Christchurch by Pip herself, so no two pairs are the same
Simone Bensdorp of Wild Felt loves that she’s working with the world’s oldest known textile, and that making felt connects her to thousands of years of human history. Her beautiful and imaginative Felt clothing and accessories combine snuggly merino wool with recycled and repurposed materials…
We’re loving the description of this gorgeous yarn from Elmtree: “A crazy bat was carded with soft NZ Merino and Polworth wool, and handfuls of recycled thread offcuts from my local weavers’ looms. Together with the occasional slivers of fabrics and some green and purple sparkly glitz, the whole bat spun up into a party on my trusty wheel….”
There’s nothing like pure natural merino wool for warmth and comfort, especially for your wee ones. The talented husband and wife team of Wrapt in Merino specialise in gorgeous baby clothing, accessories and blankets using this gorgeous fibre, having first made them for their own baby.
Susan Manson of Fully Woolly is a highly skilled maker of fantastic faux taxidermy deer trophies and other woolly goodies – and she reckons fibre runs through her veins…
Mmm, lovely, light, warm and snuggly merino. We can’t get enough of it and we love the range of stylish merino scarves available from Silvereye this season.
Sarah Jane Wilson is a textiles designer-maker creating unique hand-woven products under her label Fearlessweaver. Her unique designs are woven on a traditional countermarch floor loom in her studio in Wellington.
Tedge of Whimsy Wood & Wool makes gorgeous wood-turned tools for the creative fibre artist. Beautiful, tactile, and functional, they are a pleasure to use in your spinning and other fibre work. Check out Tedge’s range now.
