Wet Felting How To

[josiebrat]

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since I have visited the forum. I have been spending a lot of time quilting which is my other passion, but now getting back to my felting which I love. I have also spent some time working on a kids after school program teaching basic felting skills. oh what fun! I hope everyone is having a great time felting, and all the other great things we do in life. I have been reading through the blog updates. thanks

anyway, I hope you can help me.

1. translating the foreign sites that have great tutorial info on felting. Someone recently wrote a blog post about this, but I cannot find or remember who wrote it. the one I like a lot is the one called "livemaster"...any tips on best navigation of this site?

2. I want to learn how to add more dimension to my felting similar to what I see from the "Sassafrasdesign". I can't figure out how to copy these images so I can easily attach so let's see if this link to my pinterest will help. Can anyone direct me to a tutorial that will help?

Now that Spring is here I hope to get out more, and perhaps do some felting in the backyard.

thanks,
Josie

[MTRuth]

What browser do you use Josie? Usually the browser has a translation option. That said, they don't always work very well.

I follow Sassafras Design's blog and it seems she does a lot of eco printing. But I don't think that's what you meant. I didn't see a link to pinterest?

I read your blog post about the school program. It looked like they were having fun learning about felt.

[josiebrat]

Hi Ruth,

I was using Safari, but now have to use Firefox. I generally have to type in google translate to bring up the site for translation. Sometimes I might be on a sight which has a button for me to press. Just wanted to know if anyone had any special tips on this.

I found a few images of the
Sassafras design that I can share. Do you know how she gets the nice shapes around the outside edge?

Thanks for reading my blog. Yes the kids are really enjoying the felting. I hope I can get into a few more schools and do the same after school program. Need to figure out other ways to supplement my artist income. always more going out for supplies than coming in.

[Frances]

is this what you are looking for - I open it in Google Chrome and a box comes up and asks me if I want to translate and I click yes and the page is translated

www.livemaster.ru/masterclasses/valyanie?status=&msec=12

[josiebrat]

Apr 13, 2015 20:16:02 GMT Frances said:

is this what you are looking for - I open it in Google Chrome and a box comes up and asks me if I want to translate and I click yes and the page is translated

www.livemaster.ru/masterclasses/valyanie?status=&msec=12

Yes Francis,
This is the one I'm referring to. Let me try this browser and see if I can get in. Thanks for your help.
Josie

[MTRuth]

Make sure you download from Google store and not from some other site. Otherwise you'll end up with Malware on your computer.

The shapes with holes look like they are added with prefelt to me. You cut the prefelt to the shape and then felt it on to the edge of the scarf.

[Pandagirl]

Welcome back Josie!

[josiebrat]

Hi Marilyn,
Always good to chat with you all on this site. You are so knowledgeable. Hope things are going ok for you. Did you take any of Fiona's online classes this time around? I did take the jewelry one, but working at my own pace.

Thanks Ruth,
I was able to get on the site with Frances help and yes I used the google store. I'm always concerned about downloading from the internet.

Ok, I will try this method on another project. Will let you know how it comes out.
thanks everyone,
Josie

[Pandagirl]

Josie, everything is fine. I haven't taken any more classes. but I look forward to seeing some of your projects. I'm glad you're back!

[Shepherdess]

Welcome back. You can do this by cutting your felt at the prefelt stage and then stretching it. In this case I think Ruth is right they look like individual circles felted together.

[josiebrat]

Thanks Ann,
I think I need to experiment with small pieces before I try something big. Will share when I do. Thanks again for all your help

Best regards,
Josie

Off to another day of felting even with close to 79 degree temperatures today!