Wet felting - an introduction

We combined needle and wet felting today and started making felt beads or balls which ever way you want to call them! Lots of elbow greece needed to felt a piece of sheep fleece into a nice round shape. Soap and hot water too of course.

You can felt a piece of fleece into a ball without needle felting, but for a nice even shape with no lumpy bits we needle felted them first into rough ball shapes before plunging them into hot water.

We welcomed Varignia to the group of makers - she is a very talented crafter herself and uses recycled materials in her own creations. 

Ah...another member of the group, Simon, all tangled up...

And the transformation of all those felted balls into a stunning necklace. This is Clare's masterpiece.  

More needle felting

We had some different members come along today to have a try at needle felting, so we continued the 2-D work with those fantastic vibrant colors of fleece. But we also branched into 3-D territory, what needle felting is all about really...

This was the start of a sheep that I was working on. Pepa made a much better one!

Many ouches along our way, the only dangerous thing about needle felting, ah well...