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Comment by Ruth Lane on October 20, 2009 at 4:50am

Barbara - could you explain more what you are trying to do? I know people who needle felt around a form to make shaped pieces i.e. hats or vessels. Is this what you mean? They usually start the piece on the form and needle to it to get it shaped. If your piece is flat now and you want to shape it, I would suggest some wet felting around a form and then steaming. But it's hard to say unless I know what specifically you are trying to do.

Comment by pam on October 18, 2009 at 2:35am

Barbara,
I am no expert by anyones standard!! But I have formed the flowers on my felt necklace by using a fabric stiffener called ''stiff stuff''
Basically I mixed up 1/2 stiff stuff with 1/2 water and then soaked my felt in it..next I squeezed it dryish and then can be moulded by hand ( a tio here use clothes pegs/pins) to hold shape while drying. It dry's perfectly in the shape you wish for.
But maybe someone else can pop in here with more ideas for us?

Comment by Hopscotch on October 17, 2009 at 4:57am

Hi, It's me again!
I am longing to try and shape some dry felted work I have, but I am not sure how to proceed. I don't know if I can mould the piece around a former of some sort and whether I have to steam it, ?? Anyone who can point me in the right direction would be a friend indeed!

Many thanks
Barbara.

Comment by Hopscotch on October 16, 2009 at 2:26am

Thank you,
I look forward to viewing all your lovely work and learning lots!

Comment by Ruth Lane on October 14, 2009 at 4:46am

Hopscotch - it does include dry felting both machine and hand. All kinds of felters are welcome here!

Comment by Hopscotch on October 13, 2009 at 5:18am

Hi everyone,

Before I post anything within the group, I would like to know if this includes people who use the Embellishing machine or as some call it, dry felting method?? I do hope so!

Comment by pam on September 13, 2009 at 1:29am

I am posting here in the hope someone will be able to help me/give ideas?
I am wanting to design a cabbage type rose in feltDo any of you know where I may obtain a shape or tutorial on roses in felt?
Many thanks for anyone who may be able to help me with my project.

Comment by Sadie Cantle on August 20, 2009 at 10:33pm

Hi Ruth
You are a star thanks so much for your help and time with postcard details its really helped me out as im very new to felting i luv all the work on this forum perhaps one day i will be as good but i have a long way to go
once again many thanks
happy felting
Sadie x.

Comment by Ruth Lane on August 20, 2009 at 4:33am

Sadie, when I make a felt postcard, I use a stiff interfacing as the middle layer with muslin fused to the back for writing. Then I do a thin layer of felt either on the needlefelting machine or by wet felting, add the details and then cut to size. Make sure you make it bigger than 4x6 as it will shrink. I usually make mine 10 x 15 or so and then have two postcards done at once. I then fuse the felt front to the interfacing and satin stitch around the edges. Hope that helps!

Comment by Sadie Cantle on August 19, 2009 at 2:11am

Hi Abigail
thanks for your message i going to try a felt postcard but im waiting for some batting to arrive at the moment im trying to make some flowers for my scrapbooking page very slowly
happy felting
Sadie x.

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