Soft, beautifully coloured wool became felt creations when Claudi and Tanita came in to share their felting skills with us recently. Claudi went through the whole process:
Lay out your background colour on a piece of netting. Make the wool go one way, then the other...
Then lay out your pattern / design on top of that using coloured wool. Keep it wispy and not too fat so that it will felt really well.
Lay the netting over the top and gently wet down the design with warm soapy water. Now, the therapy part. Massaging with circular motions, hands immersed in suds. Hmmm. Lovely! Then, carefully peel the netting back, and roll the felted piece around a stick, and roll, roll, roll.
Hey presto. Fantastically felted masterpieces. All really different, and all really cool. Check out the animoto presentation to see some of them...
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