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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: madcat on April 12, 2014, 09:47:27 pm
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Spent an interesting day at Guild learning how to make wet felted objects. I hadn't intended to get involved but there was a spare place so I decided to have a go.
We made a small vase shape and a small bowl. It was surprisingly hard work and involved some water and quite a lot of soap as well as rolling squeezing and rubbing the items to felt them.
I'm pleased I learned the basics and allthough I probably won't make many felted objects it's good to try something new.
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It is great fun, but hard work. I would like to be able to make felt hats, but presumably you need a head form. Once the hats were wet felted then I could needle felt flowers on :)
Imagine making a whole yurt, although they do use horses or 4x4s to do the rolling.
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Fleecewife, you can make a hat using a balloon or football that you can pump up and let down.
There are several u tube videos on it if you want to give it a go.
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Fleecewife, you can make a hat using a balloon or football that you can pump up and let down.
There are several u tube videos on it if you want to give it a go.
Thanks Bionic - I'll have a look for those :thumbsup:
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I've tried wet felting but find it hard going and my hands don't like it much. Apparently, though, you can leave it and come back to it later so I'm going to try that sometime. I've not tried shapes like bowls though.
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I used to do a lot but can't manage in cold weather with my hands so don't do much now.
I've made a hat off a flat template before, but just acquired a ball recently and had a go at a narrow topped round vase like vessel that way. Both work, but doing it here on my own is rare, going to the shop gives a plan and company and it seems easier :)
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I wasn't sure what I would make from felt that I would use, a yurt would take too long to make .
I intend to try knitting something large and felting it to size in the washing machine, probably a bag because it doesn't have to fit , the eventual size would simply dictate what I could put in it.
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I rather like the idea of knitting overly large socks then shrinking them down to make slippers. ...Think I might need to learn to knit first though !! :knit:
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I have just finished knitting a bag that will be felted tomorrow in the washing machine. I'm going to have a go at lining it as well.
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Piccies please when its finished :thumbsup:
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Piccies please when its finished
Seconded ;D
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It's been through the washing machine twice and is now hanging up to dry. I'll get my camera out tomorrow.
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Looking foreword to pictures.
I'm sure I've seen an article on making felt boots, I think on the downsizer site.
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Catching up here...
I did a wet felting workshop at my own Guild last year. We wrapped our felt around a balloon, then burst the balloon to make a vessel!
It was great fun.
I took BFL tops, which felted pretty much as soon as I touched them once I'd wetted and soaped them. I felt like a fraud as everyone else huffed and puffed, and kept on rubbing and pressing, took breaks, asked the tutor if they were doing it right...
I was rather taken aback at how much fibre it takes to make a reasonably thick felt. I do like the final result but at the moment I feel I'd rather spin :spin: the fibre than felt it.
I really love the idea of felt art pictures, though, (wet felting rather more than needlefelting, although you can add or refine detail with a needle later) and will definitely have a go at that. I bought a kit at Woolfest last year and really want to have used it before Woolfest this year!
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Looking foreword to pictures.
I'm sure I've seen an article on making felt boots, I think on the downsizer site.
Ok, I haven't actually taken any yet. I hadn't heard of Downsizer but I have now joined. Those felt books look great.
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Another day - another craft learned! Went to a felt hat-making day today, and my hat is now drying on its form (ie a bowl! ;D It was formed on a proper "head")
It turned out so nice, I am now contemplating making a dress to match it! (Not out of felt though! ;D )
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Can we see a piccie?
I am doing a nuno felting course on 20th July. I can't wait ;D
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Would felting be a good idea to use short staple Soay fleece for? (as it seems to be a difficult one for spinning/weaving (if I got that right from a different thread).
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Can we see a piccie?I am doing a nuno felting course on 20th July. I can't wait ;D
All my piccies seem to be too big to post - sorry! It's not glamorous, but I am insanely pleased with the result of my hat - now see what you have done - I have to look up nuno felting now....
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Let's see if this works...
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That's pretty. Like the colours.
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Brilliant! Now modelled... ;) ?
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Love it :thumbsup:
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Beautiful ...... it would go with my new shirt! :trophy:
Lady K - I went to the Minerva Centre at Llanidloes at the weekend and chatted to a lady who was wet felting. She was working with Merino but showed me some samples of wet felting with native fleece. She hadn't tried Soay but thought that it would wet felt. She suggested experimenting with the Soay fleece on its own but also combining it with other native fleece if need be.
I haven't had a go at wet felting at all yet but Soay can be needle felted with some success. Fleecewife talked me through the prep. of the fleece in a thread on here not long ago if you are interested. Thank you FW. :thumbsup: :excited:
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in the hills - you should have popped in for a cuppa I'm just over the hill out of town. :)
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Thanks ITH, I'll research some more about felting.
This thread just gave me some ideas :) :thumbsup:
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Arrrr Dogwalker, didn't know you were so close to us. We are between Welshpool and Newtown. Like Llani and always come over for The Wool and Willow Festival and Christmas Market.
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Let me know next time your coming this way and I'll send you directions, if you come through Trefeglwys you pass the end of my lane.
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Thank you ... will do. ;D