Top 12 Tips for Wet Felting Over a Resist
Felting with a resist unlocks so many possibilities in your wet and nuno felting adventures! Create 3D shapes like vessels, lanterns, purses, backpacks, wearable art such as beanies, jackets, cowl scarves and skirts, or even use them to create textural elements!
In this video, Marie explains how a flat resists are used in a wet and nuno felting projects, and what common materials are used as resists, as well as hat to avoid for a resist. The material, shape, and size of your resist can all impact the felting process, and there are a few things to keep in mind while felting over a resist. Follow these 12 Tips, supported by visuals of the many projects we've felted over a resist on this channel, and keep them in mind when you're incorporating a resist into your felting projects.
Felting in Fall is so Dreamy!
Fall is a fun time to decorate with felting projects
Before the leaves start turning into many beautiful colors,we makers get busy calling forth the season with our crafts and decor. Roll out the pumpkins and bring on the little critters, needle felting sweet decorations will add charm and whimsy to your autumn decor.
Whether you are felting and crafting for decor, teacher gifts, or sweet little somethings for a friend or family member, you might like to browse our collection of fibers and goodies in the Fall Shop. There is sure to be something you will love felting with.
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Our YouTube SHOW, "Wooly Wednesday", is essentially a way for us to hang with you, our BFFs, Best Felting Friends, of course!
We love sharing felting tutorials, projects, tips, tricks and introducing you to other felters like the teachers in our online felting school. Browse our free videos
Join us for Wooly Wednesday @ 2PM Central time on on YouTube for a wooly good time felting and laughing together. Enjoy our free tutorials on needle felting, wet felting, needle felting animal portraits, needle felting dolls, needle felting pictures, and more. Make sure to subscribe and click the bell so you get notified whenever we go live or post a new video.
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Looking for Felting Workshops?
Our online felting school www.feltingtutorials.com may be just what you are looking for! We have in-depth online felting workshops by wonderful teachers who share their skills, tips and techniques for making exhibit worthy felt works.
Take a class to make your own nuno felt dress, a wet felt hat, felt your own coat, felt a scarf, learn how to dye your own fabrics and fibers and then felt a tunic and a dress with the fabric you made.
We also have classes on needle felting animals such as dogs, birds, an elephant, a fantastic dragon or rooster, etc. And we have 2D felting courses for landscapes, sunsets, beach scenes, trees and more!
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