FELTING * NUNO FELTING * WET FELTING TUTORIAL * INSTRUCTIONS * DECORATING * MOHAIR FLEECE SCARF * FELTED CLOTHES * This is a TUTORIAL for making a very light felted lacy scarf with holes decorated with mohair fleece. Perfect for summer parties or any special occasion. Suitable for beginners! The tutorial covers every aspect: choosing materials, wool layout, decor, felting and finishing processes. There are even two sets of felting instructions - one for rolling and one for using a sander. I made two scarves to provide you options. This is a good place to start if you have some (even very little) wet felting experience but have never worked with fleece before. This is a 20 page tutorial with more than 40 pictures. I recommend you view it at 200% resolution to see every detail. This tutorial will guide you all the way to make sure you succeed in your first attempt even if you have very little experience. If you'd like to buy the same materials I use in my work, I have a great news for you. My husband opened an etsy store GaliBaba. He will be offering many more products soon at the best price on the market. Check it out! https://www.etsy.com/shop/GaliBaba * BONUS * Free surprise bonus tutorial is included! All digital downloads are not refundable, Once a PDF file has been downloaded, you can not get a refund, so please read the listing carefully. Purchase of this tutorial entitles you to print one for yourself, but not to share it with others. You are allowed to sell (except on etsy.com) any items you make from my tutorials as long as it's not mass production. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. Thank you for visiting my shop! Galina
Learn everything you need to know about wet felting - the supplies you need, how to wet felt, and different wet felting techniques.
Nuno felting is a technique developed in 1994 by the textile artists Polly Stirling and Sachiko Kotaka. By manipulating a small amount of wool fiber through a base fabric, they learned they could create a felted fabric with characteristics quite different from traditional felt. Nuno felt is thin, lightweight and drapeable. A similar process to wet wool felting, Nuno felting brings 2 different materials together to create a whole new textured fabric. While I was in Tucson for the Crystallized workshops, one class that I attended was Nuno felting. Follow along with my how-to photos to make some of your own! Step 1: start out with a base fabric (silk organza) a bit larger than the desired shape and size (the final product will shrink). Lay out a towel to keep your surface area dry and bubble wrap with bubbles face-up. Step 2: place a thin layer of merino wool roving over the base fabric using a shingling method (overlapping each section slightly) Experiment with designs. Step 3: place a piece of tulle over the entire piece. Step 4: Sprinkle the piece with a water and olive oil soap mixture. We used empty plastic bottles with sprinkle holes in the cap for the water mixture. Use your hands to pat the mixture into the piece. note: the piece should not be drenched with water, just slightly showered. Monica came around with an exterminator spray container and misted each of our pieces. She uses this when she is making many pieces at once. Step 5: with a styrofoam pool noodle cut down to size, loosely roll the piece up—the bubble wrap, base fabric, roving and tulle. Step 6: secure the roll around the noodle—we tied it up with panty hose. Step 7: roll on a flat surface, starting with both hands to elbows and back, about 100 times. Step 8: unroll and lift up the tulle to check the piece. The roving should have started to connect to the base fabric. Step 9: roll everything back up tightly this time and roll 100 times again. Step 10: Repeat steps 8 & 9. Step 11: after about 300 rolls, the piece should be almost completely connected to the silk organza. The final "felting" step is to lay the entire piece out, and with a more concentrated oil olive soap/ water mixture, sprinkle on and rub soap and fibers against the bubble wrap. The back side on the base fabric should begin to ripple when the roving is completely attached. Step 12: when complete, it should resemble this texture. Delicately rinse the piece under running water and soak in a vinegar/water solution for 15 minutes. Step 13: hang dry. Monica and Pat, the wonderful Nuno felt instructors, wearing their handmade scarves!
50/50 Extrafine Australian merino wool / mulberry silk, tencel top, wool locks, silk yarn, silk fiber, silk gauze fabric, cotton gauze fabric. Length 82 3/4" (210 cm) Width 18 1/2" (47 сm)
I have been wanting to try this for YEARS! As usual, I collect “stuff” before hand, as I just know that I will do this someday. Well, well, someday finally came! I drove to The Tin Thim…
50/50 mulberry silk / extra fine Australian merino wool, cotton gauze fabric. Length 83 1/2" (212 cm) Width 16 1/2" ( 42 сm) Weight 4,85 oz (136 gm)
What is Felting? Discover all about the wonderful fiber art of Wet and Needle Felting with wool in this Complete Beginner's Guide
I have been wanting to try this for YEARS! As usual, I collect “stuff” before hand, as I just know that I will do this someday. Well, well, someday finally came! I drove to The Tin Thim…
Use this cheat sheet to determine how big your wool layout or resist should be. Includes common measurements and shrinkage rates from 20-50%.
How to Felt Wool - Nuno Felting Method is Part 3 of my Wet Felting Technique Series. Basic Wool Felting, Cobweb Felting and Lattice Felting
This blog contains some useful tips and hints how to create nuno felt. Nuno felt is a vast area with many opportunities and results depend on many variables. I will be talking here based on my experience and my designs. Please note that there are many other opportunities in nuno felt and I hope this blog will encourage you to experiment with this technique further. 1. Weight of fabric. It is more challenging to felt heavier silk, such as: various thickness silk ponge (5 and 6), silk habotai
This free felting tutorial, on how to make a vessel, involves felting on an inflatable rubber ball to create a hollow felted sphere. These step by step instructions are beginner friendly easy to follow, and takes about 4 hours to complete.
How to create Silk Paper by Nancy Ballesteros Silk paper is capable of capturing the intense lustre and beauty of silk fibres but it is not considered a true sheet of laid paper. A shimmering sheet of the silk paper … Continue reading →
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How to Felt Wool - Nuno Felting Method is Part 3 of my Wet Felting Technique Series. Basic Wool Felting, Cobweb Felting and Lattice Felting
Svitlana was born in Crimea—a peninsula in Southern Ukraine surrounded by the Black Sea—but she currently lives and felts in New York. She began her work three and a half years ago and instantly fe…
Nuno felting is a technique developed in 1994 by the textile artists Polly Stirling and Sachiko Kotaka. By manipulating a small amount of w...
Pre-felt is quick and easy to make. It’s used to make definite shapes in a layout – a shape that’s cut from pre-felt is called an ‘inlay’. Pre-felt is firm enough to…
Discover the beautiful & unique ways to craft with wool! This tutorial; How to make Magic wet felted Roses will amaze you!
Wet Felting for Beginners (step by step guide). Learn how to felt wool by hand with this basic wet felting tutorial
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner/Eating a Christmas pie/ He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum/ And said, “What a good boy am I.” Little Jack Horner from “Pocketful of Posie…
This is a wet felted wall hanging, it was made for a customer order. She wanted something modern but with not too many colours. So I started with wool yarn to make the design. As I started the proc…
Hello! This tutorial has been updated (as of March 2012) Please click here for the new version *************************************************************** This tutorial will show you how to make a basic piece of flat felt. Anyone can make felt – it’s easy. To...
There's a craft technique I recently learned about I hadn't heard of before, nuno felting. I had to get curious about how this creative process worked!
Nuno felting is a technique developed in 1994 by the textile artists Polly Stirling and Sachiko Kotaka. By manipulating a small amount of wool fiber through a base fabric, they learned they could create a felted fabric with characteristics quite different from traditional felt. Nuno felt is thin, lightweight and drapeable. A similar process to wet wool felting, Nuno felting brings 2 different materials together to create a whole new textured fabric. While I was in Tucson for the Crystallized workshops, one class that I attended was Nuno felting. Follow along with my how-to photos to make some of your own! Step 1: start out with a base fabric (silk organza) a bit larger than the desired shape and size (the final product will shrink). Lay out a towel to keep your surface area dry and bubble wrap with bubbles face-up. Step 2: place a thin layer of merino wool roving over the base fabric using a shingling method (overlapping each section slightly) Experiment with designs. Step 3: place a piece of tulle over the entire piece. Step 4: Sprinkle the piece with a water and olive oil soap mixture. We used empty plastic bottles with sprinkle holes in the cap for the water mixture. Use your hands to pat the mixture into the piece. note: the piece should not be drenched with water, just slightly showered. Monica came around with an exterminator spray container and misted each of our pieces. She uses this when she is making many pieces at once. Step 5: with a styrofoam pool noodle cut down to size, loosely roll the piece up—the bubble wrap, base fabric, roving and tulle. Step 6: secure the roll around the noodle—we tied it up with panty hose. Step 7: roll on a flat surface, starting with both hands to elbows and back, about 100 times. Step 8: unroll and lift up the tulle to check the piece. The roving should have started to connect to the base fabric. Step 9: roll everything back up tightly this time and roll 100 times again. Step 10: Repeat steps 8 & 9. Step 11: after about 300 rolls, the piece should be almost completely connected to the silk organza. The final "felting" step is to lay the entire piece out, and with a more concentrated oil olive soap/ water mixture, sprinkle on and rub soap and fibers against the bubble wrap. The back side on the base fabric should begin to ripple when the roving is completely attached. Step 12: when complete, it should resemble this texture. Delicately rinse the piece under running water and soak in a vinegar/water solution for 15 minutes. Step 13: hang dry. Monica and Pat, the wonderful Nuno felt instructors, wearing their handmade scarves!
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What is Felting? Discover all about the wonderful fiber art of Wet and Needle Felting with wool in this Complete Beginner's Guide
Wet Felting for Beginners (step by step guide). Learn how to felt wool by hand with this basic wet felting tutorial
How to Felt Wool - Nuno Felting Method is Part 3 of my Wet Felting Technique Series. Basic Wool Felting, Cobweb Felting and Lattice Felting
I mentioned at the end of my look back at January, that February had been all about unusual embellishments. That carried on into March too, but I'll stick with the theme and show them altogether. Using unusual embellishments isn't really unusual for me, but I think I might have a bit of a surprise near the end :) It started in November when my friend had some shiny hair decorations/extensions that she was removing and throwing away, so I asked if I could 'scav' (scavenge) them out of the bin to try felting with. They originally come straight, but after being plaited/braided, end up wavy/kinked. I decided to try them with a wool blend which came in some Botany Lap Waste from World of Wool. It is really soft, greyish and has the odd bit of Angelina blended in. I couldn't see any in what I used though: From this angle you can see better how they attached: Thicker pieces of the fibre kept their shape and were more prominent, and where it was thinner/spread out, they blended in more: The next time my friend used the extensions, she saved them for me when she removed them. They were really nice colours: I blended up some Merino to match: I used the same wool blends twice, and I started by matching the fibres to the blends: But used different coloured fibres on top at the other end (not great photos) As soon as I started to wet it down it felt like there were far too many fibres on top. They kind of look/feel like trilobal nylon, but not quite as fine. It took a lot to get it felted, the fibres acted like a barrier between my hands and the wool, I had to rub mostly from the back. I even resorted to rolling the felt in a bamboo mat. This is how it looked when it was dry: You can see how much of the fibre is loose: I tugged off lots of loose fibre and this is how it looked afterwards: It looked like I pulled it all off, but it was more obvious looking on an angle: And I had to get a supermacro close up! I used the same hair extensions again. This is how the finished piece looked: I twisted some of it around some wool twists I'd previously made, spun some with some white pencil roving, fluffed some up and made a kind of 'ball' out of it, blended some with Merino, and used a couple of pieces which were still partly plaited/braided. The two biggest patches on the bottom of this angled photo are, on the left, the loose ball, and in the centre, the blend with wool: This is a closer angled pic: This is one of the partly plaited pieces: I undid the ends of this one, sorry, not the best photo: This next pic is a small amount spun with pencil roving on a drop spindle. I just twisted it, then used it so it's loose: I did my last experiment with unusual fibres a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I didn't get lots of great photos, but this is what I tried out: And this is one of the locks: I used 23mic natural white Merino, and this is the finished sample: This is a close up of the top left where I fluffed up the fibres: And this is how the migration looked on the back: This is one of the felted locks, it is attached at the base, and springs loose: Sorry there aren't more/better photos, but did you guess what the fibre is? It's my friend's hair who gave me the extensions! I clippered it for her a couple of weeks ago and decided to see how it felted :) What's the most unusual fibre you've ever tried?
Join Sharon and Hannah as The Tin Thimble talks tips and tricks for nuno felting with cotton cheesecloth and achieving a more casual look.
This is a wet felted rug with archaic motif from Turkmenistan. It was a long process, about 1 weeks work. First I started on bubble wrap with design (wet pencil roving), then I filled with coloured…
There's a craft technique I recently learned about I hadn't heard of before, nuno felting. I had to get curious about how this creative process worked!
