Carol Jensen Felt Art - Felting Blog
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Wet felting and needle felting website of Carol Jensen, felt artist.
Carol Jensen Felt Art - Felting Blog
5y ago
Ingeo fiber is an interesting synthetic fiber for embellishing. Added to the outside layer, as the bowl is opened up during the felting process, it will curl as ingeo fiber doesn't stretch. It only comes in the color white as synthetic fibers don't take dye very well. I first added two layers of black merino wool to each side of my round resist. Then I pulled off some ingeo fiber and placed it on the black wool. This will be the outside of ..read more
Carol Jensen Felt Art - Felting Blog
5y ago
I haven't made a starfish in awhile and since I change out my artwork display every 60 days at the art gallery where I am a member, next month will be different. This starfish was made by needle felting core wool and covering with red merino wool. I look on Google images for examples of starfish. Core wool is inexpensive and still has a bit of lanolin still in it which makes it easy to needle felt into firm shapes. I make F-Bombs out of it, and oranges. Below I needle felt the starfish shape on a piece of acrylic felt which keeps the needle from penetrating too ..read more
Carol Jensen Felt Art - Felting Blog
5y ago
This post is about how to make a felted cairn, which long ago was used to indicate direction and used as a trail marker. This one is a little different though and not just stacked rocks. I used 5-inch thick high-density foam which I purchase by the foot from Joann's Fabrics. I cut the foam into shapes using either a fillet knife or bread knife. I then further shape with scissors into irregular stone shapes. It's a good idea to wrap the wire a ..read more
Carol Jensen Felt Art - Felting Blog
5y ago
The fine craft guild I belong to is having an exhibit at an art center in Naples, Florida.and the theme is Crafted by Hand. I'm making a shibori nuno felted wall hanging, influenced by Rae Woolnough. Nuno felting is a fabric felting technique developed around 1992 by Polly Stirling, a fiber artist from New South Wales, Australia. The name is derived from the Japanese word "nuno", meaning cloth. Wool is felted by mingling into the silk fibers with rolling and fulling. "Shibori" is the Japanese word for a variety of ways of shaping cloth and securing it before felting ..read more