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How do you paint with wool?

Anna Walker · October 30, 2019

How do you paint with wool?

  What you see in the picture above is the first felt ‘painting’ I created shortly after I discovered felting more than a decade ago. I had been looking for more and more ways to create felt and had come across a couple of felt artists online whose work I greatly admired: Jan Waller and Moy Mackay. Jan’s work is fun and full of life-often featuring a figure at play or her daughter. I love her vibrant colors and the sense of whimsy evident in her work. I was delighted to meet Jan at a workshop in Wisconsin several years...

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The difference between Craft Felt & Wool Felt

Anna Walker · October 23, 2019

The difference between Craft Felt & Wool Felt

When I am asked if I use craft felt in any of my classes, I like to let my students know what the differences are between craft felt and wool felt. For starters, craft felt is created with manmade fibers, mostly plastic and synthetic fibers, which have been needled and/or heat processed to cause the fibers to adhere to one another. Wool felt is made primarily or entirely from natural animal fibers, mostly, sheep wool.  Wool felt is more expensive than craft felt, and for good reason: animals require care and feeding in order to produce their wool over and...

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WHAT IS FELTING?

Anna Walker · April 29, 2019

WHAT IS FELTING?

Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp-based rayon. (Source: Wikipedia) Clear as mud, right? Felting is a way to create things of beauty, both fabric and sculptural, through the use of a barbed needle (needle felting) or by changing the pH of the wool and using friction in a soap and water application (wet felting). Here on Stab Things Into Existence, I’ll teach you how those...

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YOU MIGHT BE A FELTER…

Anna Walker · March 25, 2019

YOU MIGHT BE A FELTER…

Not sure if you're a felter... You just might be if you do any of these things...
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Keeping It Real

Anna Walker · February 21, 2019

Keeping It Real

All of this is to tell you that you should just have fun-enjoy the exploration regardless of the outcome. Play. Discover. Create. That’s all. And that’s everything.
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