Make Your Own Felting Mat

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Make your own felting mat.

For a child playing with natural wool fibres offers a beautiful sensory experience. There is something special about a hand felted woollen play mat. A large piece of felt. This tutorial will take you through the process of making your own wet felted play mat.

Merino wool fibres a round stick sushi mat small bubble bubble wrap net 2 rubber bands soapy water in a mister spray bottle a bar of soap and an old towel. A support tube keeps the puzzle mat from collapsing and damaging the puzzle. A mat that is custom made for a certain puzzle size should be at least 4 inches. They are heavily felted wool.

Some kind of tube. I used a 2 ft length of pvc pipe i got at a home improvement store for about 4. You put the puzzle together on the large surface of the mat then the felt can be rolled up with the puzzle sandwiched within. Spread an old towel onto your work surface then put a round stick sushi mat on it.

The ones i ve seen are about 3 4 thick solid felted wool. You could also use a cardboard tube from a tube of wrapping paper. To make your own puzzle mat you re going to need two things. From one of these lengths pull a fine tuft of wool and place it on the bubble wrap as shown in the photo.

How do i make a rice bag to use as a needle felting base i have been using a blue foam pad since i started needle felting as featured in most of my tutorials which has been really great to use but i am finding that tiny bits of blue do come off of it now onto the piece i am working on and fibres tend to stick to it and the whole thing is looking a little fluffy holey and worse for wear. There is no wood in a wool pressing mat. To make a small piece of pre felt you will need. You could use the blanket maybe as a base adding wool roving felting in layers onto the blanket.

Spread the sushi mat out on the towel and put a piece of bubble wrap bubbles up over the sushi mat. You could use your blanket as an ironing board cover like others have described. I have no idea if my felted wool pressing mat performs like the ones i left abandoned in my cart. April 21 2017 categories how tos needle felting 4 comments on making your own felting pad you may recall when i took the needle felting class back in january 2016 the teacher introduced me to the idea of using felted wool pads to work on instead of the usual foam rubber option.

Take a piece of merino wool top about 45cms long then split it down the middle lengthwise to make two easy to use lengths. Step 1 measure and cut the piece of felt to the size you want.