Have you felted before?
I am experimenting with needle felting and am loving it. I have a bunch of wool and silk roving already and in the past I have worked with it by sandwiching it in between two sheets of water soluble interfacing and then free motion machine stitching it all over. Here I have gray and silver roving sandwiched in the film and am starting the free motion stitching.
After rinsing, the film leaves behind a little of the “glue” creating a sheet of fabric that I can cut, stitch or use in other projects. Here is a gold piece that I am still stitching beads onto.
Recently, my mother was in the hospital so I packed up a bag of roving, some felt, a foam pad and some felting needles and “basted” down some roving in an abstract pattern. I also bought the Brother Felting Attachment (SA280). It only works on certain sewing machines so if this is something that you are interested in be sure to look up the models it can be used with at https://www.brother-usa.com/products/sa280. If you don’t have a brother sewing machine be sure to check your manufacturer to see if they have an attachment for your sewing machine. Below is a video link of the attachment in action.
https://photos.google.com/u/0/photo/AF1QipNk2iEsLRB_FUzJfVZ_oNP6lh7c-Ws11u-4CuL8
The attachment doesn’t work on my Brother XP1 but my previous machine was a Brother VQ2400 that my mother has been using so I have commandeered that machine for felting. It is easy enough to remove the attachment for her when she is ready to start sewing again. I worked the project that I basted in the hospital with the felting attachment and now will add to the piece with embroidery, beading and whatever else I decide. This piece will ultimately become a wall hanging or maybe a sculptural formed piece. But, I am still thinking on it. This is a bigger piece at about 1.5ft x3ft.
