This month’s whiplash them is fibre & mixed media inspired jewellery - to find out more about how to enter - go to the whiplash page - to post your link go this forum thread and also see and comment on the other entries.

We are offering some prizes for this months Whiplash (last day to enter is NOV 15) one copy of How We Felt: Designs and Techniques from Contemporary Felt Artists by Carol Huber Cypher, published by Interweave Press (October 1, 2007).

And a gift subscription to Cloth, Paper Scissors magazine? All donated by Interweave.

How we felt is an incredible book (check out a preview here). The introduction begins with:

Felt is humble and primal, yet ethereal and beautiful. At once sensuously soft and unyieldingly strong, felt runs the gamut from crude to sublime. Felt is contradiction and contrast.

This book embodies all of those qualities, it is just amazing what these artists do with felt. Projects go from incredibly delicate gossamer scarf by Elizabeth Buchtman to the really sturdy Hungarian/Scandinavian felt boots. Some of the mystery is taken out of shaping felt and making one piece objects. Good instructions and diagrams and artistic sketches as well as wonderful photography. Not all the projects will be for everyone - not sure I will be making a felt cape anytime soon - but my mother probably would consider it. I know she would love the felt vest and I really liked the brick house handbag. There are a couple of felt hats and some whimsey’s too - with felted insects and floating poppies. As well as the projects in the book there is also an artist gallery at the back with some truly amazing designs to inspire and just be in awe of.

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