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[louise]

Hello, 
Louise here and ready to learn more about wet felting! I have been needle felting for about a year and a few months ago discovered wet felting. Such fun! I would like help on how to “plan” my resists. The simple circle for the vessel I understand. I’ve also created a book resists for a pod, but beyond that I am stumped. For example if I want to create a conch shell the dimensions have me baffled. Is this something that has to be pieced together? I’ve taken both of Pam de Groot’s  online classes and learned many techniques, but I want more info on how to plan 2D for 3D. Any thoughts? 

[lyn]

Hello Louise and welcome to the forum. I love wet felting but my resist work is basic. I hope other forum members will be able to help you.

[MTRuth]

Welcome Louise, I'm glad you joined us. I hope you'll join in the conversations, share your work and ask any questions that you may have.

Working from 2D to 3D definitely takes practice. I think the best way to learn is to do small experiments. I have been posting about my experiments with differential shrinkage and shaping results. Many times, the resist can be very basic but the way you lay the fiber and the use of thicker prefelt added to the mix, changes the shape significantly.

If you go to our website feltingandfiberstudio.com/ and search under differential shrinkage, you can find most of those posts.

Also, Teri Berry's online hat and bag classes are coming up and I know she teaches about how to use different resists to get different shapes. She also wrote an online tutorial for us about book resists. The book resist tutorial shows several different resist shapes and the resultant felt shape.

feltingandfiberstudio.com/classes/felted-concertina-hat-with-teri-berry/

feltingandfiberstudio.com/2016/01/22/book-resist-tutorial-by-teri-berry/

Also we had a discussion here about shell shapes:


feltandfiberstudio.proboards.com/thread/3693/3d-resists-any-suggestions

[Shepherdess]

welcome. from the bits and pieces, I have seen about conch shells it is 3 stacked pieces I think. There is an online tutorial but If I remember it was not a great one. it is a few years ago I saw it. so it may take a little searching to find. A lot was down to the stretching and shaping to get it to look like a shell

[louise]

Thank you Lyn, Ruth and Ann,

I will check out the posts and dive right in. When I have something to show I will post. It makes sense about how the wool is laid out and differential shrinkage...time to experiment. Very happy for the resource of this forum!

[Pandagirl]

Welcome Louise!