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Free Easter felting tutorial
This year, make your Easter gifts extra special!
Here’s a sweet tutorial to help you gift some extra love this Easter
WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR THE BUNNIES?
That will depend on how many you want to make. So, I’ll just give you the list of materials for 4 bunnies like mine. You can adapt the colors and/or decoration to your own taste.
- 40 cm of green ribbon
- 40 cm of pink ribbon
- 2 small bells
- 2 sew-on strass pieces
- Green and pink thread
- A thin needle (that can pass through the holes of the strass)
- A thimble
- 2 thin felting needles
- Felting foam
- Some white fine merino wool
- 2 thick (about 7 mm thick) sheets of pre-felt (pink and dark brown); each of them should be big enough to cut 2 bunnies
- The pattern
- Some gold and silver thread
INSTRUCTIONS
Start by making the pre-felt with your wool of choice. I can’t say exactly how many layers you need, since that’ll depend on how thick you lay your wool. But 4 should do if you’re working with thick layers.
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New To Wet Felting? These Resources Are For You!
Have you just recently discovered wet felting, and don’t know where to start? I’ve put together a list of resources for you to help you know what to learn next.
START BY MASTERING THE BASIC WET FELTING SHAPES
When people approach me about learning to wet felt, they often tell me they’d like to make scarves and garments, so they’re particularly interested in nuno felting.
But to get to nuno felting and other more demanding techniques, you need to be confident with the basics first.
So, here are the simplest instructions for the 3 basic shapes, whether you would like to work with wool batts or with wool tops.
- Felting a cord with wool tops
- Felting a cord with wool batts
- Felting a ball with wool tops
- Felting a ball with wool batts
- Felting a sheet with wool tops
- Felting a sheet with wool batts
And here are a couple of additional tips that can help you perfect your technique:
