Gather just a few inexpensive materials to make a lovely personal bar of felted soap. You will need ¼ oz of wool roving, a bar of soap and a nylon knee high stocking. I use Dove soap it has a nice scent and lasts a long time. Step 1) Divide your wool into 4 equal parts. Step 2) Feather out each piece of wool so it is at least as wide as the soap is long. Step 3) Wrap one piece of the wool firmly around the soap vertically, wrap the second piece around horizontally, repeat with the 3rd and 4th pieces of wool. Step 4) Place soap in the toe of the nylon and twist the nylon gently. Step 5) Hold the soap under warm running water and gently squeeze the water through to the soap, after you feel that the soap is saturated with water you can add water as needed. Do this for about 2 minutes gradually increasing the pressure. After the 2 minutes you can now start to rub, starting very gently again increasing pressure for 4 minutes, if you go to fast you will make folds in the wool and it will not look as nice. You will start to see bits of wool coming through the nylon, you are about done, pull the nylon back and peek at the soap to see if the wool has turned into fabric. You can remove the wool covered soap from the nylon at this point but if you think it needs a bit more work you can put it back in the nylon and continue to rub until it is felted to your satisfaction. Step 6) Dry the felted soap by squeezing it in a dry hand towel, then place on a cookie cooling rack to dry over night. Step 7) Package your soap in an attractive cello bag or tie a ribbon around it, you could even place it in a box. This little bar of felted soap makes a pretty nice gift. After you master the soap you can move on to bigger projects like this fun little hat, modeled by my granddaughter Savannah. *If you find a problem and need help please leave a comment and I will reply on the same comment page, have fun and make some felted soap.
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These kids look so cute...so adorable... and so stylish.
Как сделать детскую комнату более уютной и интересной для игр? Мы предлагаем вам создать уголок природы из фетра. Вы можете сами или вместе с детьми
Lilacs; cutouts mounted ontoan album folio, A side. Cut-out sprays of stylized red and yellow lilacs. Writing above and below flowers. Album contains sixty folios with fifty-nine paintings of figures, and additional découpages, including floral and vegetal decoration in some margins. Ink and opaque watercolour, with découpage on paper. Album covered with green leather.
Buonasera a tutti! Come promesso agli amici che mi seguono sulla pagina fecebook di CraftPatisserie, ecco pronto il tutorial passa a passo per realizzare questi incantevoli macaron di feltro. LR…
Today we had one of our Feltwest workshops, which was Cosies and Hats, with Sue Eslick. Hats and cosies are both made using the resist felting technique. Sue is the Cosy Queen and has perfected them beautifully. She also very generously shared all her patterns, which we all appreciated a great deal. Two of these hats were made at a workshop with Judit Pocs, an amazing felter from Hungary, who has largely influenced many of us here in the west. The green hat is one which Sue has made for our Earth exhibition at Mundaring Arts Centre. These are Sues coffee cosies, as every good coffee pot deserves some dressing up as well. Sue does these rather weird, but strangely appealing little guys. Not quite sure if we should call them cosies or hats....or something weird that crawled out of the cupboard!!! One thing which you will either love or find gross....is the fact that their eyes are semi attached....they can come partially out of the head! These are the traditional tea cosies which Sue creates. She has a lovely technique and uses both prefelts and fabrics in her designs. I think the dragonfly is my favourite, with it's wings being made of silk tissue. Very pretty indeed. Below is the link to Sues blog for more inspirational work. http://suzcosies.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
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She's small, too :)
