I like you in the videos. You are very personable and connect with who is learning from you so well. I love the idea of using silk to bind beads and different materials onto the felt. Really fun and creative! Thankyou for sharing all your techniques and experiences and ideas for future projects. 🧶💐
Thank you again for sharing and commenting. I have not been on RU-vid in a while, but I love connecting with others in the comments, even though I have been delayed these days. The beads and fabrics are definitely a favourite technique I will delve more into in the future. There will be more to come on this. I really love creating prefect or wool shapes too and then apply the nylon and beads as an accent area. So much can be done and the beads really pop! Like al little fairy garden.
I have a quite ambitous project envisioned and not much experience..... this was so so helpful! Thank you!!!! It helps me to feel more free experimenting ♡
Oh so good! I would love to see it. Please share your results :) and let me know if you have any questions at all. Thank you for commenting and sharing. Lori
It's definitely not just you haha! Over time I have narrowed it down to textiles and lately I have much more clarity with the knitwear (and RU-vid I want to continue). I think focus might take practice (through my experience as I realise this right now lol)... that is if you were someone who wanted to have more focus. It's been a life long challenge for me because of the boundless ideas. I used to call it taming my horse. So I continue to tame bit by bit. :) You're not alone!
@@muffsmerino indeed…fibre art…is boundless….after taking over a spare bedroom room, half the dining and lounge rooms I had to focus and cull, my house had become the whole craft room and it was embarrassing. I’m a work in progress. I’ve settled on felting. I love dyeing silks, and locks. But when $$$ and a bigger house with a whole level dedicated to my craft I will get into spinning…I love art batts. So big chunky yarns made from my art batts…then incorporate into my felting projects…so delish! I love it! I love your channel. I’m a new sub from across the waters in Australia
@@casscass1778 oh 👋 to Australia! I love it there so much. Lol yes the amount of mohair and yarn fuzz all over the place, I concur on the over taking of house. A cats dream. I have not worked with batts before, but I do have a blending board to make rolags…This is an entire other exciting fibre adventure. If I ever have time! love spinning so much. Seems like not enough time for all this fibre fun 😆
Wow! You are so creative. You are felting with materials I have never heard of before. Please show some of your finished products that you have incorporated ur work. I would love to see how u dye scarves. ❤❤❤
Thank you! I should definitely show more finished items... you may have inspired me to incorporate more of the techniques into finished felt projects. I am more often experimenting or giving away the felt items I do make... but the idea of create new projects does excite me! I have recently posted a scarf video, where I do a quick run through of dyeing before felting it, but its not a specific scarf dyeing tutorial. I will make one though! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yle4vNAIh6Y.html
This is a beautiful piece and I love the others that you show at the end, too. I can totally relate to having SOOOO many ideas and having a hard time picking what to do. Your ideas for specialty felt sewed to a garment are absolute gold...bits sewn to the shoulders or the slash on the sleeve. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Thanks for taking the time to do this video.
Yes! The felt sewn in or knitted into a garment is a vision I have yet to try. It will definitely be a video once I get to it! Thank you so much for watching and your comment is helpful and encouraging.
Really well done and very informational. I enjoyed your stream-of-consciousness thoughts as you worked. It very much highlighted your enthusiasm and creativity.
I just LOVE everything you make and I especially like and am drawn to the items behind you on the rack!!! It’s like you have climbed into my brain and made everything from my dreams 🎉❤YAY! Thank you!
Yah, I’ve always wanted to find my style and stick to a few techniques and improve on them. It took quite some time to figure it out! Definitely testing out my favourite techniques several times over the years helped me so much. 💜
I've been really enjoying your videos! I've just gotten into wet felting after being a needle felter, and your tips are great! Plus I totally relate when you say it's hard to choose what thing to stick with! My channel is all over the place haha.
This is so nice, thank you for sharing your technique! I never would have thought to do something like this but your piece came out so beautiful that I’m inspired to experiment with different fabrics and beads. Again thank you, I really love your wet felting videos and look forward to seeing more of them. 😊
Thank you for the lovely comments. I am so happy you are going to explore this! There is so much more one can do and discover with this technique. I will be sharing a felted earring/jewellery video soon using a similar technique:)
Great video! I have never felted before and was going to make a jacket as my first project. 🤣 I think I will start small instead. I enjoy seeing the artist at work. Twinkling hand videos are not my favorite.
I am so glad to hear your aspiration to start big! I am sure you will pick it up quickly and make the jacket in no time. I do think experiment making 10 or so small test pieces of felt using techniques you want apply on your jacket. Then make one or two small resist based pieces of felt to see how your materials shrink around the resist :) I am also thinking resist based templates for different shapes would be so handy! I would love to see how your jacket turns out!
Hi! I haven’t used a felting machine to felt, would love one, but I can imagine you can felt wool, silk and sequins in the machine. These guys would definitely know! @thegentleroller on RU-vid
Somehow I missed this! So kind of you to even ask... no I did not knit this jumper, its made in Peru, but I did knit the one in my most most recently posted Nuno Scarf Video. The blue and white stripe.. It is my 3rd jumper, now onto my 4th. Very exciting to knit a jumper.. Do you knit?
Hi! first the fibre is laid out, then wetted and flattened. I will then add the sparkles, beads or anything else I would like on top of the fibre. Then lay my fabric on top (trapping) the sparkles, beads between the fibre and fabric etc. The fine nylon mesh works best, but tightly woven transparent silks also work. Then wet felt the project :) Definitely one of my favourite techniques!
You did and it is so lovely! Really nice felt work. You've found me on Instagram! @muffsmerino ...just in case for others. I wish we could upload photos to the comments :)
