How to do Simple Wet Felting

This tutorial will show you how to make a flat piece of felt.

What you need:

• Wool tops
  
  
• Bar of olive soap
  or you can use watered
  down washing up liquid
  
  
• Tutu netting about
  A3 size
  
  
• A cup of  warm water
   
• A piece of bubble wrap
  a bit smaller than your tutu
  netting

First lay your bubble wrap on your work surface, it will get wet so move anything that you don't want spoiling, start to pull small pieces of wool and place them vertically on your bubble wrap, about 5 cm away from the edge. The pieces need to be laid on in small pieces, have about three pieces over lapping on each row, cover the whole bubble wrap like that. Then do the same but horizontally and then vertically again. Do this so the piece has about five or six layers, you can use different colours on layers but I would nearer the top layers because they will show through.

 Then place the net over your creation.

Add a small amount of washing up liquid to the cup of water or if you have a bar of olive soap, grate some off and put it in the warm water.

Pour a small amount of the solution all over your work. Then use your hands to squash it. Massage and scrubbing it with your finger tips works best. I would do this for about ten minutes, to make sure it has worked together.

Next go to your sink and roll up your work really tightly and squeeze out as much water as possibly.

Unroll it out and careful peel off the felt from your net and that is it. You have made some felt.