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Bags, Feltmaking Tutorials, Uncategorized

Who can resist a resist?

People often wonder how you can make seamless, hollow 3D forms in felt, such as bags and bowls, with no sewing or other trickery.  This is primarily down to the amazing properties of wool fleece, which means that all fibres laid next to each other will bond together during felting.  But in order to create […]

Bags, Feltmaking Tutorials

Felting with Big Bertha

I’ve recently been experimenting with an even bigger ball to use as a resist and shape for making felted bags: her name’s Big Bertha.  You can see from the photo (she’s the purple one) that she’s considerably bigger than my usual pink felting ball, reaching a circumference of 40″ (and possibly bigger, though I was […]