Felting soap and a Hat Class
With the arrival of fall I don’t seem to have much time to felt. Today I have to make some felted Soap for the museum store. I thought I would show you how I do it. I do it little differently then Leonor Calaca showed you in September. felting-soap Please remember there is no one right way so you will probably find other ways to do it on line too. They are all good.
Here everything is ready to start. these are my bins of small amounts.
I wrap wool around the sides and then around the whole thing. The green was a small piece of a batt I had and the red is combed top.
Than I wrap either a thin piece of wool top or a piece of silk hanky
Then into a piece on nylon to hold it all together. I make up a bunch and then take them to the living room so I can watch TV while doing the felting.
Once its felted I put it on a cake drying wrack to dry. I am afraid I only gat as far as the pile above and then my grandchildren showed up for an unexpected visit. So here is a picture of some I did another time, drying.
The other thing I wanted to do was remind everyone , especially the people that missed the last one that Terry Berry is doing another Concertina hat class on November 4. Everyone in the last class had a great time. Here is the link to the class. Felted-concertina-hat-with-teri-berry and her is the link to some of the hats people made in class. felted-concertina-hat-gallery
10 thoughts on “Felting soap and a Hat Class”
Felting is great…but the rubbing or rolling can go on a bit longer than is desireable, so getting a pile ready to work at whilst watching tv is a good idea. I often listen to the radio.
Your felted soaps are very pretty and will be appreciated by the museum store.
Thanks Lyn, I find it a bit tedious felting soaps so TV is helpful.
Great looking soaps, Ann!
Thanks Leonor.
It is a tedious process to make the soaps, but you’re idea to do it while watching tv is great. But I can only imagine the looks I’d get dragging a pot of soapy water into the living room. :-0
LOL After you have had lamb in the living room no one cares about a little soapy water. We don’t have any rugs so that helps.
Yes, that would make a big difference. 🙂
Great soaps Ann. I do mine in a similar fashion although I haven’t made any for a while. Maybe I should try selling some at the store. What kind of soap do you put inside?
thanks Ruth, They sell really well at shows and in the museum store. Lavender is by far the favourite, but I have some rose and other flowers and some fruit ones. Something woodsy might sell well where you are. I used to have one like that when I made soap. Men seemed to like it. It had balsam and pine in it.
They all look great, Ann 🙂
We made some last week at the well being centre, we used Lyn’s tutorial: http://rosiepink.typepad.co.uk/rosiepink/how-to-make-felted-soaps-and-pebbles.html
And Leonor’s tip of finishing with bubblewrap, everyone loved it. I’d run out of handmade soap, so bought ‘baby’ soap.