Today as Molly pulled out the bag of felting goodies, I heaved a heavy sigh as my plan was to do some cleaning and not pulling more stuff out or making more of a mess. But of course I begrudgingly consented, sure that I was going to have to be involved in the project.
As far as supplies you will need some roving (wool), a comb-preferably small toothed, 2 bowls, both with HOT water and one with soap, towel,a piece of foam, felting needle
First you need to comb out a small bit of the wool into a fluffy ball, Dip ball into hot soapy water and roll-think meatballs or earth balls.
Dunk the ball in the clean water or rinse under running water squeezing out the suds and water squeeze in towel and let dry. Ginger made about 3 balls and was done. As I was putting her down for her nap Molly continued to work on her needle felted project. She didn’t want me to look until she was finished so I don’t have pictures of her process and actually I have not had the pleasure of needle felting so Molly is the expert here. According to her she wet felted some green wool into a pile not a ball.
And then poked the needle in to it quickly, over and over again on the piece of foam. She took several more pieces of combed wool and needle felted that on to the green.
When she was finished she had a purse for her American Girl Doll!
This is a picture of necklaces Molly and I made at a class we took. After we made several wet felted balls we strung them on some ribbon and made these. The loose balls are Gingers that she made today.
All in all there was very little mess and clean up was quick. There are tons of books on felting at the library and book stores and many great projects. Warning-rolling the balls and poking the wool is very therapeutic and relaxing!!
We have a very busy weekend ahead with soccer games and food co-op pick up, a few parties and a concert. Here is a nice start to the weekend:
Those necklaces are fabulous – I’d love to know if you are wearing them!
I love how you have a wool felting ‘kit’ all set up in your house! Her little purse is adorable…and I definitely want to try making some felt balls. Ah! So much to do with felt!
GWYN—- Thanks, Yes we do on occasion!! My “flower” is in need of a bit of repair, one of my “petals” needs to be tacked in place.
SARAH—So funny that I gave the impression that we have a “wool felting kit” Really it is a brown shopping bag that has all the supplies in it that we keep on a high shelf to keep Ginger out of! I am in the process of making a quilt out of recycled sweaters. I should post about that too— keep me motivated to keep working on it.
Those girls are genii! Yeah, I think I just made that word up. But those felt beads are so fun to make! They are addicting.
I’m stupid, so humor me. I take it that is unspun wool? Another for the to-do list!