
A Wet Felt Study Group
With workshops on hold, my guild decided we could run some study groups online. I will be leading a wet felt group. The plan is to felt a standard size square using different wools. https://www.ovwsg.com/events/event/2103-wet-felted-fibre-study-group/
We will compare how they felt at different stages, ease of felting and possible uses. We will all do Merino and Corriedale so we can compare how we all felt the same thing and then move on to different wools. We don’t all have to have the same wools. It would be nice to have and many different breeds as possible depending on what people already have on hand and or want to order. Some mixed fibre would be interesting too.
The group starts April 21st. We will meet on zoom once every 2 weeks and meet on a Discord server ( a place to share photos, chat and ask questions between zooming). Discord was chosen because some people don’t like Facebook or are not on Facebook. We didn’t want to exclude anyone. Or if everyone is on Facebook we could make a private group there if that is what people want.
Everyone will get a worksheet to record information on so we are all gathering the same information to share.
I am based in Ottawa Canada, (GMT-4hrs.) I think that makes our Zoom meetings 9 am the next day in Sydney Australia. I hope you can join us and learn something while having some wet woolly fun.
Here is the link again. https://www.ovwsg.com/events/event/2103-wet-felted-fibre-study-group/
11 thoughts on “A Wet Felt Study Group”
This is a great idea Ann. Will you be sharing the results here?
I will share my results but will have to ask the others about sharing theirs. It is a pay to join group. I am hoping we can sample lots of different wools from around the world and where to get them.
It will make a good reference for you Ann.
Yes i think it will be a great reference.It is always more fun to do as a group than by yourself.
Good luck with organising, gathering & collating all the info which will be a useful reference tool.
Thanks Antje, I hope it runs. the weather suddenly turned nice and people want to get outside.
I think Ottawa must be GMT-4 not +4 😀 I’m in Scotland and doing a spinning breed study but planning to felt small amounts of each breed as well but maybe too small an amount to join in here.
Yes you are right. it would be fun to have you join us. the samples will be 10×10 so shrinkage is easy to calculate.
Is that 10cm?
Sorry no 10 inches about 25cm. 10 cm is only about 4 inches and some wool has a longer staple length than that.
That’s a nice idea to keep people active with their Felting and in touch. Have fun!