How does felting work In felting, the fibers swell when it gets into contact with hot water. There are small scales on the surface of individual wool fibers which open up when they are washed in hot soapy water. The hairs slide across one another and lock, because of the scales. The fi...
Felting Wool Sweaters Prior to domestication, sheep were more hairy than wooly. Their hair, therefore, was not highly useful as a textile material. Once sheep were domesticated around 11,000 years ago, sheep breeders started selecting certain traits in their flocks, and sheep gradually became wool...
like US size 10-1/2 for yarn labeled US size 8 or 9 needles. The felting will still shrink it down to even smaller than normal knitting if you agitate it long enough. One thing to note: Felting shrinks the object a bit more height-wise than it does width-wise. A square-knit sample...
Today I want to show you some more basics of needle felting animals. In my other tutorials you will see how to make various animal parts e.g abadger head,bunny earsas well as the various stages of felting a fullguinea pig,bunnyetc. However one of my followerscommented that it would be...
So then, in preparation for the next project, I googled, “how to felt cashmere” because I had read about felting wool but wanted to know what to do with this material. Well, turns out there really weren’t any good articles about it! I found myself reading random fiber and knitting...
I will be using some of the ‘balls of core felting’ that I made whentesting different core material. That will provide me a starting form and I have a collection of roving. The roving that is quite long strand can still be used but may need to work with the needle or some of my...
How to Felt Pretty Flowers: How to Make Pretty Felted Flowers A FiberArtsy Tutorial Did you know that you can take raw fiber and roving to felt pretty flowers? Yup! All you need is the basic wet felting know how. And Supplies, of course! The cool thing a
I am thrilled to introduce our one-of-a-kindHandwork: Fiber Artsunit study—it is filled with fiber arts projects that your children will love! Did you know that early knitting needles were typically made from bone, ivory, or tortoise shell? Does it surprise you that the softest wool in...
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Wet felting does diminish the size of the piece, especially if the piece hasn't been felted very hard. Without wet felting, you may need finer needles to make the surface quite smooth.Use (often cheaper) rough wool to create less detailed and more natural looking surfaces. Fine needles are...