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Last week we had a look at how to felt thin cords the easy way. But what if you want to felt thicker ropes like the ones you use for bag handles? Are they made in the same way?
What do you do if your wool top isn’t thick enough?
How do you guarantee that no grooves form on the surface of the cord ...
This video is the first one of a new series, in which we’ll be looking into the topic of making cords or ropes in wet felting.
While it’s more geared towards beginner felt makers, I know that many more experienced people also struggle with this. During my years as a felting teacher, I’ve gotten man...
I don’t use stiffeners often. But sometimes they can be useful, especially for sculptural wet felting. The problem with stiffeners is finding one that doesn’t make your work very hard, and still lets your felt look natural.
As in many other aspects of felt making, there are different opinions about...
Have you ever felted a vessel, a bag or another 3D item and found that you couldn’t get rid of the seams on the sides? Did you wonder why it happened? Did you think that those seams could have been prevented by filling the piece with a balloon or any other object?
If that’s the case, know that the ...
You may know that for many years I’ve had a list of suppliers for wool and wet felting equipment that I offer in my courses and as a download on my website. It’s based on my own experience buying wool online, as well as on recommendations from students and followers.
Whether new felt makers email m...
You probably know me as a wet felting teacher, because I haven’t sold my work for a long time. But, for years, I mainly felted and offered my pieces in markets, on Etsy and in shops specializing in handmade items.
Lately, I’ve been considering going back to creating work to sell. And this has made ...
Today we’re looking at what I see as the last two pieces of the pricing puzzle. If you haven’t read the first part of this series, I recommend you do so, since today’s blog post builds on the first one.
But, before we start, I’d like to address the questions I got from last week’s article. They mai...
When we start a new hobby, the natural tendency is to imitate someone else’s style. And there’s no reason to feel bad about it. We all do it. I did it too. When I was discovering wet felting, I had no clue how I could explore it. Following what other felt makers were doing was the only way to learn ...
Are you having issues getting your wet felted bowl to have a perfectly round shape? Or maybe you’ve felted a flat round piece, but, after fulling, it doesn’t look like a circle anymore? Your layout may be the cause of this distortion.
Wet felting doesn’t have many rules, so it allows for different ...
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at the topic of resists. But the focus was more on what you need to know at the beginning of your wet felting journey.
If, instead, you’re a more seasoned felt maker, you might be facing other issues, like what to do with the piles of resists and pape...
Fiber paper is a material that you can create with either viscose or silk fiber (viscose paper or silk paper).
You can use it to cut out all sorts of shapes and apply them on wool to make felted pieces with a crisp design, much like what felt makers do with pre-felts.
It looks like actual paper, a...
Are you having issues making the edges of your felted projects straight and neat? I know, that’s one of the challenges for us felt makers.
Of course, it’s always possible to cut the felt and heal the edges. But it doesn’t look as nice.
Besides, sometimes, the reason why our felt doesn’t have neat ...
