How to Make Felt Booties

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Before I went on Alone Frozen I handmade warm and light-weight booties using felted fur, which enabled me to survive the harsh weather. In this tutorial, I take you through all the stages of my felting process. Follow along and you’ll see step by step how the felting process works, and how handmade footwear is a must-know bushcraft skill.
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00:00 What you need for Felting Process
03:37 Starting Out with a Pattern
04:43 Quick Test Swatch
06:24 Applying Felting Solution
06:59 Timelapse
07:27 Outer Layers
08:38 Starting Process of Felting
10:08 Adding Design with Felting Needle
11:49 Pushing Wool In
12:54 Felting vs. Fulling
14:37 Finished Boots
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I'm Woniya Thibeault and my channel aims to provide educational and inspirational videos about wild foods, survival, ancestral, homestead and off-grid living skills (hide tanning, basketry, handcrafts, and more) travel and wilderness adventures, and ecology; and to help people feel more capable, engaged and connected.

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@mrerikstephens 3 месяца назад

When I first saw you on season 6, my first thoughts were something like "No way this cute California blonde gonna last two days!" I quickly became a fan. Happy that Jordan won but was cheering for you. I'm so happy that you stuck with it for another season and won! I'm sharing your story with everyone I know. You're a huge inspiration to all of us: men, women, young, old, etc. Thank you for sharing these skills! Difficult to quantify, but how much would you say that your custom gear made the difference to win in Labrador?

@northeastslingshot1664 Год назад

The GOAT of Alone. Such an inspiration. Hoping you are both well and thanks for your videos. 😀🙏

@wallaceviviansadventures2095 Год назад

Awesome i just want to say Congrats on winning the Alone series. i was hoping you would win. have a great week

@CharlesGann1 Год назад

Had heard of felting but never saw the process. Glad you offer an extended class. Just ran into a couple who used your brain tanning course and amazing bucksskin stiching. Thanks for making these skills available.

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Wonderful! Yes, it's very satisfying getting these empowering skills out to people!

@lexiwebster177 Год назад

You are an inspiration! Your light is incredible!

@grandiesgarden175 Год назад

Great inspiration!

@rossmurphy7675 Год назад

This was an amazing video, thanks for all you do

@Sheepdog1314 Год назад

thank you

@SurvivalKompass 11 месяцев назад

That's so outstanding. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

@stevesoutdoorworld4340 9 месяцев назад

Wow great job! What an art!😁

@andrewszot3094 Год назад

Awesome!

@indiopeltier9758 Год назад

This is so. Awesome ,thank u for sharing this.Hola from Oregon!

@leesvision Год назад

This is awesome. Im going to have to try this. I'm a big fan of wool

@elkhound25 Год назад

super interesting for sure.

@williamcleveland6715 Год назад

Thank you from Wyoming

@QuickQuix 6 месяцев назад

My admiration for your skill and strength is at 11. Best vibes going out to you! Thank you for sharing this!

@pattifoote1714 Год назад

Great video, so glad it popped up, it been a minute since I’ve watched one of your videos. thank you

@joshuaritzheimer1382 Год назад

That was an interesting process! I have always wondered how that was done.

@lobopropredatorcontrol Год назад

This was a very great video, I’ve always been curious on the process, great content 👊🔥

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Awesome

@cindyyeager8627 7 месяцев назад

Well done video.

@rachelholdt6840 Год назад

Congratulations on your win! Thank you for all the teaching you do on various topics. I have two sheep and two goats to turn into food for my family this fall and want to make a pair of mukluks for myself and some slippers for my kids with the various hides. I'd rather not remove the wool from the skin, so am planning to make the insulating liner out of it with the wool side in. I'll use the goat pelt with the fur side out for the outer layer of the mukluks, and maybe see if I can find some fur to line the top. Your booties look so incredibly warm and gorgeous. These crafts are so important to keep alive. Not only is it incredibly sustainable, but the clothing items you make and teach how to make will last for years and are beautiful ❤️

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Thanks Rachel- those sound like fabulous projects for you and your family. I would love to see the finished products!

@SarahBEtv Год назад

RAD! I love it!!! U lookin buff and beautiful too! ❤

@gloriajustenmusic 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful work!!! I’ve done quite a lot of felting, and I can imagine how much time and elbow grease went into these boots! three work days? Maybe more including preparing the wool? But so worth it. And who needs the gym when you have projects (workouts) like this? 😅 I’ve loved watching you on Alone, and just ate up your book, couldn’t put it down. Thanks for sharing your journey and skills! ❤

@DDeden 3 месяца назад

Wow.

@CarrieMtn Год назад

Many years ago I made a pair of wool boots. In hind sight I should have put leather soles on the bottom. I did a similar technique as yours, but instead of two pieces, mine had two feet connected by a tube. Then after felting I cut them in half. I might just have to make another pair. Thanks for the inspiration.

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

you're welcome!

@jafinch78 8 месяцев назад

Felting and Fulling. Interesting. Never knew about fulling or really felting in detail. Excellent detail demonstrating and describing. I bet a little bit of cussin. Quite the shrinkage without even drying appears. Do you put on a form to to shrink tighter with heat or just let dry as is and hope sized correctly or using some sort of guestimate for the pattern to finished product? I'll have to check your website out for maybe more info there or read into some more. Doubt I'll have the time anytime soon, though good info to know about regarding since I do have boots with the felt lining and can see a custom lined oversized pair of muc boots or similar in the future.

@liemh9290 Год назад

After watching this.... I went ahead and ordered one off Amazon. 😀

@justinmiller8249 Год назад

Howdy miss Woniya...need me some of them for my ghillies!

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Hey Justin- yeah, they'd be great for that!

@Rewildminnesota Год назад

How do you prepare the wool for felting? Also, do you have an online felting class coming up?

@karlnewman2829 20 дней назад

Is there any problem taking several days to do this?

@feralforestfairy Год назад

Thank you so much for making this video! I am going to try this with my fibers. Is there a recommendation on how many inches larger than your actual foot that youd want to make The Pattern?❤

@evolvinghumanity Год назад

140% of your foot size generally

@gregorychaney7604 Год назад

When was this filmed? It looks like it was prior to Alone Frozen. If so, it would be great to hear a post season review of how well they worked in the often damp Labrador climate. Awesome boots by the way. Cheers from Alaska

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Yes, I filmed this the summer of 2021 as I was preparing for Alone Frozen. And for sure, I will be doing videos about how all of my gear performed out there!

@oldwaysrisingfarm Год назад

Wonderful video! The question I have is how do you calculate the size of the original pattern? I made a set of capotes for my wife and myself with croche followed by shrink felting in a washer and did the oversize calculation by producing test swatches. Is there an analogous procedure that goes with this process? I saw that you did make a test swatch to evaluate the wool, but how does that translate to pattern making?

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Hi there, yes, it is a similar process- doing a test sample, measuring the size it starts and size it ends up and then figuring the percent shrinkage and making your pattern accordingly.

@oldwaysrisingfarm Год назад

@@BuckskinRevolution Logical! Do you have more wool projects planned? If so, we raise Navajo-Churro sheep and llamas (their guardians), would you be interested in any wool? I need to get a wool washing video up for my channel in the near future anyway, so it would be good timing to prep some and send it out if you were interested.

@nickkitchener6155 Год назад

When making the pattern, how much larger do you make it to allow for shrinkage? 2 or 3 inches?

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

All wool is different, so to be accurate it is best to make a sample and measure the shrinkage, then use that to figure your pattern. It also depends on the quality of the finished felt you are after- if you want a very hard and durable felt that pattern must start out bigger, but that also makes it scratches and less insulative, so that isn't always what you want:

@geoffreybudge3027 Год назад

Russian army wore these in there war against the Fins

@123Homefree Год назад

This isn’t a “bushcraft” method since expensive, manufactured carding combs were used to process the wool locks. The best way of bushcrafting quality felt is by “finger carding” the wool locks.

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Agreed, I wasn't trying to demonstrating a Bushcraft method, just the wet felting process

@123Homefree Год назад

@@BuckskinRevolution your comment here that “you werent trying to demonstrate a bushcraft method” clearly contradicts your “bushcraft felting tutorial” title? Whatever 😂

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

@@123Homefree Oh geez, I wasn't looking at that when I responded, just at the thumbnail. I hired a youtube channel manager for a while and I believe he added that title as it's a buzzword. Oops

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

Just changed the title

@123Homefree Год назад

@@BuckskinRevolution makes sense thanks for your honest response :)

@nicholasconnell9533 Год назад

Hey I saw your deer hide videos. Can you make pants made of deer hide. I’ll be willing to pay you. If you get this message let me know if something like that is possible.

@BuckskinRevolution Год назад

I don't do buckskin commissions anymore, but I do teach folks to make their own