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Hand made Felt

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Author	Glassprimitif
Process	3 stages
Difficulty level	novice
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About this Make

This is just a little taster to get you started. Making your own felt is easy, addictive and such fun too. do this with the kids!

Just a quick word about fleece - not all fleece will felt properly so you are better buying fleece (or tops) rather than collecting it randomly from the fields. that white, bobbly stuff that you find attached to barbed wire is full of harmful chemicals and probably won't felt either.

Funkyfibres sells fleece in her shop here on Folksy and she has some particularly lovely blue faced leicester tops. http://folksy.com/shops/knittingsheep

I also recommend Merino and Falklands fleece for the best results.

Materials required

Fleece (or tops)
Hot water in a jug
Liquid soap
Hands (!)

Keywords

felt fleece hand made felting tops twists

10 Comments

Vintagebeadery said:

Thanks for that nice clear instruction, I've done a bit of needle felting, which is fun, but I want to have a go at wet felting too.

ARTIOLOGY said:

Have been making some of these at the weekend and i'm in the process of making them into a necklace, have really enjoyed it. Thanks for the make......x

astrojill said:

So-ooo... liquid soap is any soap in a bottle - like the hand-pump stuff? I love this! AstroJill

notjustpink said:

This is great, thank you. I have been wanting to make felt balls for some of my sewing projects and now I know how! Thank you!

Maureclaire said:

I believe what you call fleece or tops in the UK, we call wool roving in the U.S. I haven't done this; but, know someone who has, and that's what she calls it. Gotta try it ! Looks like fun !

ilovemysewingmachine said:

cool! I had done this in art school years ago but totally forgot how easy it is!

samantha1880 said:

i am a madfelt maker myself and it's great to see other peoples advice on this subject as different people have differnt views on making it. although now i know how to make the felt twists, thank you!

handmadebyjandj said:

These are lovely, cannot wait to make some of these, looks fun! Think I will try and make myself a necklace.

Momtazbh said:

I made some of these with my nieces once. We left them to dry and I popped to the loo. When I came back the girls had squashed them all! Once you've made these beads you can also stitch seed beads and sequins into them to make them sparkle. I recently got some in Morocco which have been individually embroidered into as well.

lucyjackson said:

Great make, i look forward to further felt making! If you try anyone elses make why not show us how you got on here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/showyourmake/