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Warm Wishes & Many Blessings to You!!

Felting is such an amazing CRAFT - ART - HOBBY - PASSION!
I am constantly in AWE at the gorgeous, witty, rustic, artful, and delightful creations that people make, and we LOVE getting photos from YOU, our felting friends to further inspire and ignite the imagination!

Thank YOU for sharing your gifts, for creating from the heart and allowing yourself to follow your joy! THAT is truly a gift for all of us.

As always, we wish you happy felting, and let us know if you have any questions or need any support by emailing us at customerservice@livingfelt.com

With Love,
Marie

Wet felting fall leaves is a fun and adventurous process!
You can mix colors in many different hues and create something
vibrant and life-like. This little tutorial should get you started!

Start with wool that will wet felt well in your chosen colors. I like a mixture of oranges, browns, greens and yellows. Shown here is our fall-pack 2, but you can also pick and choose more colors from our merino-cross felting batts.		A lid from a plastic storage bin is great to layout your wool, this makes it easy to flip over and transport before wet felting. Starting size was approx. 12" x 13". We created two layers by mixing up the colors, for a total weight of 1oz.
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Prepare your surface in layers: towel, bubble wrap, mesh, wool, mesh. Use hot water and an olive oil soap solution to fully wet the wool from the center out. The sponge helps press water though, and air out.		Use your hands to press, press, press. Gentle but firm pressure is used to ensure the wool is wet all the way through. The mesh on both sides of the fiber serves as a nice barrier to prevent wool from sticking to your hands and bubble wrap.
Once the wool is fully wetted, use a wooden dowel or pvc pipe as a core to roll up your package. Roll your package firmly, making sure not to wrinkle the fibers.Cut up fabric, and especially t-shirt material makes great ties for your roll.		Roll the package 50 times from finger-tips to elbows. Then untie and roll from the opposite end, rolling another 50 times. The wool shrinks in the direction it is rolled, so repeat this from all 4 edges, flip over and repeat from all 4 edges again. Adding a small amount of hot, soapy water to your fiber with each new roll may help speed the felting.
Check your felt. A "pinch test" will reveal if your felt is in the soft stage. The piece should slightly "tent" from the pinch, with the fibers holding together and not pulling apart from each other. If the fibers just separate, continue rolling as in the previous stage another 25-30 times from each side.		Once the fibers are holding together, roll your felt over your dowel again from all 8 sides. You can leave your bubble wrap down and use that as your rolling surface. You can continue to "full" your piece by rubbing with your hands, giving it hot and cold rinses, and adding soap and water and rubbing it on your bubble wrap. Get it as smooth and well felted as desired.
Here is our felt, a nice, thin piece, well felted and perfect for cutting! Time to rinse, SQUEEZE out the water (do not wring) and set it to dry so that it is flat. Final size was 10x11 = 2" shrinkage.		Click the image above for a template of leaves, find more on the internet or create your own free-hand! We simply cut out the desired shapes, layed them on our felt, and used tiny scissors to cut them out.
You can display your leaves after they are cut, or create a more natural look by wet felting them individually. Just wet them again with hot water and soap, and felt by rubbing them between your hands.		We also added some purple stitching for interest! One ounce yielded 5 larger maple leaves in the 3"- 4" range, and about 10 leaves in the 2"-3" range. Have fun and send us picture of your felted autumn leaves!

Fairy Tale Pumpkin!
This wonderful new color is nestled in with our merino-cross
line, and includes various breeds plus mohair!

Berry Pickin'!
Another new addition we think you'll love is this wonderful
blend of purples and blue...like bowl of berries indeed!

We're on a mission to fill our website with your gorgeous felted creations!
So send us your pictures and tell us what you used to create them. Not only will you be automatically entered to win our Monthly Give-Away of $25 Living Felt gift certificates,
but you may also get published for our thousands of monthly visitors to see!

We'll choose the best pictures that inspire and enlighten the imagination,
and put them on our website!

...like this enchanting pumpkin by Sandy Gossage of KY
She used her brilliant imagination and our new
fairy tale pumpkin felting wool!

Susan Styring Reiger shared her sweet needle felted
witch on the Living Felt Face book page.
She is simple and so well done - definitely a happy little witch.

Lots more friends photos this week on facebook!

Stephanie Laberis of Berkely, CA
shares her 2nd ever needle felted creation -
a dedication to her beloved "Cookie"
She used Core Wool and fibers from the
Earth Tones pack, also see the Natural NZ Dark
for a wonderful, natural brown.

Felting Friends Blog

Living Felt friend and customer Kim Cowley of the UK
felted this gorgeous tree for one of her Peace Felt partners!
See it in progress and Lots more wonderful Peace Felt creations and sharing on
the Peace Felt facebook page.

Every month we give away Living Felt Gift Certificates
just for sharing your photos! Winners are selected by
random drawing of all entries for the month.

If you sent in a photo and don't see your entry, either it is yet to be
published or not clear enough for publication.
Please send the best photos you can! :)

How to Submit Your Photos