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Post by Pandagirl on Mar 7, 2015 22:57:36 GMT
Ali I'm glad you found t helpful. I'm a visual person I like to know what I'm looking for. I like the underlay because it will hold up in the felting process yet it's flexible.
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 8, 2015 17:40:09 GMT
It is for under hard wood floors. Some stores sell some the is wavy. Rona the last time I looked. I like the flat stuff.
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 9, 2015 15:53:02 GMT
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Post by Pandagirl on Mar 9, 2015 18:32:39 GMT
I haven't tried that brand, but it looks like a good deal for the 100 sq foot. It's a long shot at the thrift stores unless you're really lucky. :-)
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Post by MTRuth on Mar 9, 2015 19:25:47 GMT
If you have a Habitat for Humanities store, they often have building materials for cheaper prices. But you never know what they'll have.
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 9, 2015 20:08:20 GMT
Hah! There's an H4H store where the Goodwill used to be, just a couple of miles away. I'll give them a look. Thanks for confirming what I'm looking for.
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 9, 2015 20:13:46 GMT
I never find silk garments - I got lucky and found a small silk scarf a week or so ago. I am going to go to the thrift shops when we go back to Amelia Island maybe I willl find silk in those shops. Maybe I'm lucky.. maybe it's just Dallas! I look in the dresses and skirt areas. I went to a Goodwill, a Salvation Army, and a catholic charities store a couple of weekends ago when it was icy. They were all giving discounts - lucky me!! Many of them have discount days during the week. Salvation Army gives a small discount to ages 50+. You have to dig and look at the tags. I usually don't buy it unless it says silk. I'll try to take pics of my stash and post this week.
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Post by Frances on Mar 9, 2015 20:56:12 GMT
I will have to look at skirts - I normally look at the blouses and scarves.
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Post by elizabeth on Mar 9, 2015 21:07:56 GMT
I will have to look at skirts - I normally look at the blouses and scarves. Frances, I find those too $$ for the amount of silk. They're also in small pieces. I've found a few dresses that, when deconstructed, I can use for a large project. The other weekend I found THREE burgundy silk skirts in sizes 2 & 3x ! Huge SCORE!
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Apr 4, 2015 7:57:31 GMT
So glad I am reading this thread, I have been cutting out fairly firm plastic shapes, covering them in bubble wrap and cellotapiing the edges to hold the shape - and all for folk coming to my pod making class - now I'm off to find underlay :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Apr 5, 2015 7:51:39 GMT
Elizabeth and Frances I am a little addicted to deconstructing garments to make other things too, loving the chat, Elizabeth you must be a magnetic for silk - brilliant finds.
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Post by Wolfrott on Nov 9, 2015 7:46:48 GMT
I've never wet felted myself, but one of my books required a ton of water (buckets worth) and soap.
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Post by zed on Nov 9, 2015 11:19:26 GMT
I've seen the odd video or two where people use tons of water. I half fill a big margerine tub or mushroom tub, and use that for all the wetting down and the first rinse of small and medium pieces. Some soap does require a lot of rinsing. It's the kind of thing where you could be more ecological if you had the right workspace/set up.
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Post by koffipot on Nov 10, 2015 8:05:12 GMT
I find Olive soap rinses out quite quickly, whereas dishwashing liquid takes ages and lots of water. Quite apart from the ecological aspect, we have a water meter - the more you use, the more you pay!
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Post by zed on Nov 10, 2015 11:18:44 GMT
Yeah, we have a meter too. I agree about Olive oil soap, I was 'supplementing' mine with Palmolove recently and the bubbles seemed to multiply out of nowhere.
Sometimes if I'm doing small pieces, like when I did the flowers recently, I'll just use one small tub, and keep using the same water and wait to rinse the pieces all together. And then I try to put my netting in the sink to rinse through with that water.
I deally, I'd love to be able to catch rinse water (or any 'waste water' really) to reuse.
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