Due to the snow I couldn't get into University, so I decided to try doing some Textiles at home. I decided to try and do some DIY wet felting. I looked on the internet and found so many ways to do wet felting at home. I found this blog post through pinterest and decided to use this as an outline and try my own way...
http://rosiepink.typepad.co.uk/rosiepink/tutorial-wet-felt-making-for-beginners.html
This is how is did it..
1. The items I would need for this are:
- A towel to make sure the water doesn't go everywhere
- some bubble wrap to roll up the felt in
- Obviously some felt
- A jar to take the water form the bowl to the felting
2. then I folded the towel in half and laid it on the side the put the bubble wrap on top. afterwards I laid the felt on the bubble wrap first going top to bottom for one layer (until I could see no gaps) then from left to right (until its covered).
3. I then covered all the felt in water and folded the bubble wrap over.
4. To make sure all the felt was wet I patted the felt.
5. Then I rolled the felt and continued to roll it.
6. I had to then over up the bubble wrap and stretch out the felt and roll it for another 5 minutes. This helps the fibres to lock together.
7. After rolling the felting for about 10 minutes I decided to put some wholes in the top layer to give it another effect.
8. I washed the felting in cold water to get the soap suds.
9. I wet felted again (here you can see the green wet felting). I then let the wet felting dry.
10. Here you can see the final Wet Felting.
As you can see I have incorporated a piece of material into the green felting, I thought this might give the felting an added texture.
I really enjoyed doing this piece of textiles. This is my third attempt of this process, I plan to try it more.
