If anyone has good tips on this craft, i’d appreciate them. Brothers girfriend needs some help 🙂
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Krissays
When you find out, let me know – I have a huge bag of Hebridean black wool that’s apparently perfect for making felt. 🙂 At least, that’s what I bought it for.
Ruthsays
We made felt at the HE group one year. It was a case of putting the wool after it had been carded on a plastic sheet in the shape you sort of want – covering it in soapy water and then every child in the place stamping on it for about an hour. Then some poor person taking it home to dry it out.
Joycesays
Or what I do is make the item first, (by knitting in my case), and then felt the completed thing in the hot cycle. You need to put a pair of jeans or something in with it, to cause more agitation, and it can take more than one round to do it, but the finished thing is usable, and then pin it out to shape for drying. We did purses a few weeks back – you need to make them at least 50% bigger than you want the finished item.
Start saving bubble wrap,as this is a really good thing to rub it on,lots of extra friction!
Olive oil soap,and old washing up liquid bottle to refresh soapy waterness,we did it at group two with fifteen children and two adults and it went well.
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When you find out, let me know – I have a huge bag of Hebridean black wool that’s apparently perfect for making felt. 🙂 At least, that’s what I bought it for.
We made felt at the HE group one year. It was a case of putting the wool after it had been carded on a plastic sheet in the shape you sort of want – covering it in soapy water and then every child in the place stamping on it for about an hour. Then some poor person taking it home to dry it out.
Or what I do is make the item first, (by knitting in my case), and then felt the completed thing in the hot cycle. You need to put a pair of jeans or something in with it, to cause more agitation, and it can take more than one round to do it, but the finished thing is usable, and then pin it out to shape for drying. We did purses a few weeks back – you need to make them at least 50% bigger than you want the finished item.
Start saving bubble wrap,as this is a really good thing to rub it on,lots of extra friction!
Olive oil soap,and old washing up liquid bottle to refresh soapy waterness,we did it at group two with fifteen children and two adults and it went well.
ARGH – Joyce, you’ve inspired me. i want to try that now. *hides Opitec Catalogue desperately*
Kris – have you got card thingys? Bring it if so!
Ruth – thank you too 🙂
then will you teach me merry!?!?!?
grin… well why not indeed 🙂