An easy foolproof way to make a felt ball 
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An easy foolproof way to make a felt ball 

I have a number of times over the years tried to make a felt ball.   I found it boring, hard work and not worth the effort. A few weeks ago it was suggested to me that if you put a small amount of wool fibre in a small in glass jar with some water and shook it you quickly made a felt ball.  In fact you could make one in less than 5 minutes. Really !! How can that work ? This week I have been at the knitting and stitching show , helping at the IFA stand . Here is how to make a felt ball the easy way. Take an old glass jar with a lid . Add approx 3 grams of fibre.   Not very much .  We tested Shetland and merino.  Make it into a birds nest.   And place it in the jar.   Fill with water…

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Make the best use of your felting scraps

Felting scraps are overwhelming me.  What can I do with them? I have all kinds of felting scraps Partially felted scraps, Scraps of full felt , Scraps of prefelts I am sure all felters are the same. As I move into my new felting studio I tell myself  -  you must take action on all these boxes of felting scraps.  You can only keep the best ones , the most useful ones , the ones were you have very happy memories of the piece or the time that you made them. If those are my criteria I will have to keep all of my felting scraps which is not an acceptable solution. A scan of the Internet shows that felting scraps are a common problem but most of the solutions are sticking and gluing not really what I was looking for. Here is a good example. All a bit twee for me.…

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