It Felt Good

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I have spent most of today felting bars of soap. It is fairly easy to do, but a bit time consuming. I am coordinating the color of felt with the scent of the soap. The purples are lavender and the red/pinks are peppermint.

The green/yellow is citrus and the beige turquoise is honey almond.

I have several more of these to do. I need to redo some of these because I used too much felt or stopped the felting too soon. Still, it is a very relaxing thing to do.

Basically, you lay out roving fibers in layers, alternating the direction. Then wrap the soap in the fibers. Stick it in a nylon stocking and run some hot water on it. The you just start squishing the soap and fibers as if you were washing your hands. You can speed up the process by rubbing the bundle on something like bubble wrap.

So that has been my day.

It is labor day week-end which is usually our anniversary. On Sunday, we will have our 46th wedding anniversary, We are going out to a very special restaurant tomorrow night.

Hope you have a great holiday week-end here in the states.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 at 7:14 pm and is filed under Felting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

jenclair says:

September 7, 2010 at 10:52 am

Happy Anniversary!

🙂 I just searched through my felting supplies for a couple of bars of soap that never got felted. We were down to slivers, and I don’t know what happened to the soap I bought last week and never got home with. Don’t know why I remembered those bars stored in with the roving…

kathy says:

September 6, 2010 at 7:01 am

I have never heard of felted soap before, but I’m going to take a guess and say this is like a “stocking” for the soap and you actually use it just like this. I have seen crocheted soap bags before and they say it helps you use up all the little pieces with no waste.
Have a great anniversary.