LivingFelt's video: Prefelt - Make Your Own prefelt wool for wet felting

Prefelt - Make Your Own prefelt wool for wet felting. Jump to the tutorial: 00:12:24 If you are wanting to learn how to make your own prefelt, this tutorial is for you. In our last show, we discussed many types of wool for felting, and prefelt got a lot of interest. Prefelt is partially felted wool. The term "prefelt" may refer to prefelt wool batts, sheets or prefelt fabric and is created to make the layout of felting projects easier and faster. Grab the PDF: https://feltingsupplies.livingfelt.com/Make-Prefelt--Wet-Felt-Your-Own-Prefelt_ep_94-1.html It is more traditionally used in wet felting projects, but can certainly be used in needle felting as well. Prefelt can be cut into shapes and used as inlays in your surface design. Prefelts also provide a quick way to create a base layer for felting projects. Most commercial prefelts are created by lightly needle punching wool and other fibers such as silk on a machine to compact and slightly interlock the fibers causing them to be "partially" felted. You can make your own prefelts as well, and they do not have to be only wool! You can include silk fibers and fabrics to make nuno prefelts, and even add other surface design elements. Prefelt is not "felt" yet because it is not fully "felted" and does not have the integrity of felt. As a result, it is best to felt it completely whether through further wet felting or needle felting. RESOURCE MENTIONED: Prefelts on our site: https://feltingsupplies.livingfelt.com/Prefelt-19-26-microns_c_99.html Felt with us! our group: https://www.fb.com/groups/livingfeltfriends facebook: https://www.fb.com/livingfelt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livingfelt Follow Marie: https://www.instagram.com/marie_spaulding_in_joy/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/livingfelt 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!