Okay, I admit it, I am easily distracted and easily excited. Every time I
see some new craft I kind a have to try it, and own all the things that
are needed (I have a feeling more of you share this problem). A few
weeks ago I came across felting crafts. I spend some time searching the
web and found both needle felting (dry) and wet felting. The second type
can be done in several ways, but the way that intrigued me the most was
knitting wool and then wash it in a regular washing machine. I bought a
small starting kit for needle felting and bought some felting wool.
The
needle felting I used to spice up some crocheted ester eggs (this had
been the original plan) but it was not as fun as I anticipated. I had
read that you should not watch television at the same time while needle
felting and this indeed seems a good idea. I of course tried it and hit
my finger (a few times) with the needle. I also understand the appeal to
watch tv at the same time because the felting takes much more time
than I anticipated. I did not fell in love with the craft.
I did
use the material again a few weeks later when I bought my daughter a
shirt of which I cut of a bow that I did not like. It turned out that
the one that had sewn on the bow has not that great with the machine and
had created hole while applying the bow (all shirts had the same bow so
probably it was not put on to conceal the hole). I therefore ended up
with a hole on her shoulder. I needle felted her initial on the place of
the hole (I had seen on Pinterest that they directly needle felted on
shirts to create an application). The T now perfectly conceals the hole,
perfect.
The second felting project I tried was knitting
myself a pair of slippers. It was a fun and quick project, I immediately
bought a small package for a friend. If you have smooth floor like us
(wood) then you will need to add some rubber patches on the soled of the
feet to avoid slipping.
