The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Marketplace => Crafts & Gifts for sale => Topic started by: Shnoowie on December 08, 2021, 10:30:44 am
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We've finally updated our Etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BintysFarm (https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BintysFarm)) with Merino wool from our sheep here in Cornwall :D
We also have carded BFL (this is very fine!) and hand felted soaps made from British wool.
We've been busy!
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You are just a few miles down the coast from me! When it's allowed, I would love to see your Bowmonts sometime... :eyelashes:
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It all sounds scrummie but....hand felted wool?
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Of course, Sally! Your name made me think you were much further away!
Yes Fleecewife :) We felt all of the wool on to the soaps by hand :)
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Of course, Sally! Your name made me think you were much further away!
Yes Fleecewife :) We felt all of the wool on to the soaps by hand :)
I'm still struggling with the concept of woolie soap. Is it wrapped in wool and why? Does it make a half sponge half bar of soap combo? I can't quite visualise just what it is :dunce: ::) . I can see that having the soap already wrapped in fleece would make it very easy to felt.....
I've just checked what I wrote before and I see I put 'hand felted wool' when I meant 'hand felted soap'...another :dunce: for me. Of course I know what hand felted wool is, I've done it myself, but not with a bar of soap inside for use as soap.
So I had a look on Etsy and this is what it says: <<< What is Hand Felted Soap? Felt Soap is literally soap that is enclosed in felted wool. Basically, the wool is placed on a bar of soap and as you work it with water, the fibers felt together. As you use the soap, the bar shrinks and the felt shrinks with it.>>>
:idea: I see :D .
Then I clicked on your link :-[ and answered all my own questions ;D They look lovely Shnoowie :thumbsup:
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Of course, Sally! Your name made me think you were much further away!
Lol, I was a long, long way away - north of Hadrian's Wall, though still in England. just! - when I chose my forum name, and somehow never felt like I wanted to change it when I moved back down to the SW of England. I had been SitN for so long, everyone knew who that was... I could make it SallyIntNorthCornwall now, I suppose! lol.