How to Wet Felt a Bowl or a Vessel for Beginners: Wet Felting Tutorial

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If you have been wanting to learn how to wet felt a bowl, a hat, a bag, a purse or just an artistic vase or vessel, this beginner tutorial is the wet felting video that will help you get started. Wet felting over a resist is the key to creating wet felted bowls, vessels, hats, bags, slippers and more! Last week we shared our top tips for wet felting over a resist so you can reference some key points when you need them, and this week Marie will show you step by step how to wet felt a beautiful artistic bowl or vessel that you will love to make, display and share.

We do have kits in great color ways and you can choose a kit with batting or fine Merino fibers, either one comes with fabulous luster fibers and embellishments. Plus you only need a few supplies to dive into this very beginner friendly wet felting project.

🕑 TIME STAMPS 🕑
0:00 Project Overview
1:07 Supplies: Fine & Coarse Wool Fibers & Embellishments
2:06 Supplies: Color Choices and KITS!
2:41 Supplies: Wet Felting Tools & Setup
3:26 Resist Size
3:50 Divide Fiber
4:57 Fine Fiber Layout: 1st Color Side A
8:16 Wet Out Side A
9:24 Flip & Wrap Fibers Around
10:11 Fine Fiber Layout: 1st Color Side B
11:04 Wet Out Side B, Flip & Wrap Around
11:59 Fine Fiber Layout: 2nd Color
14:13 Plan Design Layout
15:38 Embellish Side A
18:38 Wet Out Design Layer, Flip, and Wrap Embellishments
19:04 Embellish Side B
19:56 Coarse Batting Fiber Layout: 1st Color
21:54 Coarse Batting Fiber Layout: 2nd Color
23:59 Embellish the Coarse Fiber Vessel
25:23 Differences in Wet Felting Fine vs. Coarse Vessels
26:08 Wet Felting: Hand Work
27:47 Wet Felting: Rolling - 800 Rolls
30:50 Check & Repair Problem Areas
32:03 Wet Felting: Rolling - 800 More Rolls
33:20 Evaluate the Felt & Embellishments
34:58 Where to Place the Vessel Opening
36:05 Cutting the Hole
37:08 Healing the Cut Edge
38:47 Remove Resist & Compare Shrinkage
39:30 Remove the Trained Edge
40:11 Fulling - Shrink & Shape the Vessel
42:03 Evaluate Shrinkage
43:24 Rinse & Vinegar Bath
44:27 Blocking & Shaping the Vessel
46:15 Steam Press for a Beautiful Finish
47:18 Final Look at Vessels
49:02 Wrap Up and Thank You!



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Living Felt provides free quick and easy needle felting, wet felting and nuno felting tutorials because we love to help you felt cool things from wool. We offer these free online felting classes to teach and inspire everyone, even the beginner. Wool is used in most of our projects, and we have lots of tips and tricks to make felting fun and simple. Learn to felt with Marie Spaulding as she teaches felting and needle felting tutorials from the heart. She is the founder and head fairy at Living Felt. Felting art work, home decor, fun keepsakes, thoughtful gifts, treasures and wearables with you is one of Marie's greatest pleasures. She makes felting and needle felting friendlier than ever before. Since launching Living Felt in 2004, she has sparked enthusiasm for felting across the globe and inspired thousands of new friends to give felting a go in their crafting and artistic expression. Living Felt provides totally FREE quick and easy needle felting, felting, and wet felting and nuno felting tutorials every single week because we love to help you make cool things from wool! Follow along with these fun online classes to learn more about felt design and needle felting techniques. It’s inspiration for everyone—from beginners to advanced felters. To make felting and needle felting easier than ever before, we offer felting kits and supply lists, plus you can call us with any of your felting questions - we are happy to help! The wool fibers we share will make your felting projects easy and fun! We hope you enjoy our wet felting, needle felting and nuno felting tutorials. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss a single one!

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