Post by caterina on Apr 2, 2021 21:20:01 GMT
Hello and thank you for accepting me in the forum.
I have just taken on needle and wet felting: the variety of techniques and results is a bit daunting, but very stimulating at the same time, and am I glad I have someone to ask about all of that now!
I have started with needle felting because I was afraid that wet felting might prove too messy: I do not have a studio or anything like that, just a small space in a small flat, that I share with my family. I am happily discovering that wet felting is not too messy: on the contrary, now I let my two kids have a go at it...mostly as a way to stopping thempestering me (ahem!) helping me when I am at it myself.
I am learning a lot from their experiments also: I had just read how to salvage wet and partially felted wool on this forum when my daughter showed me a tangle of such wool, a not-quite-felted masterwork that she had been a bit too impatient to wash. We managed to salvage bits of it and reuse some in another of her projects!
My kids are a leit motiv here, as my first project was needle felted penguins (a family of four), mummy polar bear and her cub, and mummy seal and her puppy (this last has been lost recently), and then a wet felted polar landscape on which to play. I made a second set for a friend's kid, who really liked it. I also tried some wet felting with a resist to obtain an alien spaceship (for the needle felted aliens, of course!). My third project has been to try out wet felted scarves: one for each member of my family, plus a couple of experiments. Well, actually they are all experiments, really. I was aiming for a super-lightweight felt, as I have seen a cobweb felting tutorial somewhere and was fascinated by the idea: I am not really sure if I managed to get what I wanted.
I am interested in understanding more about how the magic happens: the more I make and the more I realise my ignorance and wish to learn more (then go back and remake). Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge!
I have just taken on needle and wet felting: the variety of techniques and results is a bit daunting, but very stimulating at the same time, and am I glad I have someone to ask about all of that now!
I have started with needle felting because I was afraid that wet felting might prove too messy: I do not have a studio or anything like that, just a small space in a small flat, that I share with my family. I am happily discovering that wet felting is not too messy: on the contrary, now I let my two kids have a go at it...mostly as a way to stopping them
I am learning a lot from their experiments also: I had just read how to salvage wet and partially felted wool on this forum when my daughter showed me a tangle of such wool, a not-quite-felted masterwork that she had been a bit too impatient to wash. We managed to salvage bits of it and reuse some in another of her projects!
My kids are a leit motiv here, as my first project was needle felted penguins (a family of four), mummy polar bear and her cub, and mummy seal and her puppy (this last has been lost recently), and then a wet felted polar landscape on which to play. I made a second set for a friend's kid, who really liked it. I also tried some wet felting with a resist to obtain an alien spaceship (for the needle felted aliens, of course!). My third project has been to try out wet felted scarves: one for each member of my family, plus a couple of experiments. Well, actually they are all experiments, really. I was aiming for a super-lightweight felt, as I have seen a cobweb felting tutorial somewhere and was fascinated by the idea: I am not really sure if I managed to get what I wanted.
I am interested in understanding more about how the magic happens: the more I make and the more I realise my ignorance and wish to learn more (then go back and remake). Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge!
