Felting

aah, fuzzy goodness. 

here’s the lowdown on the how-to:

find yourself some wool roving in any glorious colour.

tear off a piece and stretch the fibres apart.  * make it a good size chunk.  these babies turn out a lot smaller than you expect. 

now roll it up into a ball, and start stabbing it with a felting needle.  stab all the way through, or else you’ll end up with a hollow ball in the end (unless that’s what you want).

keep stabbing away until you have a dense ball that doesn’t give too much when you squeeze it.  and try to keep your other fingers out of the way or else it’s jab-city.

this is the way we wash the felt, wash the felt, wash the felt…

*felting occurs because of 1) heat 2) friction 3) soap, and a combination of all three makes it happen even faster.

lined up like sitting ducks… 

all dry and fuzzy:

find an appropriate container.