So I got my felt done! It looks so cool I also Knitted with a chiffon fabric and that looks very interesting then the girls got home from going to go seeing Canterbury, the Leeds Castle and the white cliffs of Dover, so we went out to eat some dinner down the street at a place that I think used to be a movie theater. I got a burger and a pint for 4.99 pounds. I came home to get my felt and finish up on a forecasting mood board that I am working on for my Fashion trends class. Here are the pictures of my new textiles and of my mood board!!
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| When you go to get the supplies for felt you have to buy wool fibers they are usually bundled up this is a picture of them unraveled |
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| After you unravel the fibers you take a piece of muslin and lay it down and you then take the fibers and spread them out over the muslin like shown you have to lay down multiple layers and interchange the direction as you go. You can also put little pieces of fibers in with it to make designs in the felt. |
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| After you have as many layers as you want the minimum of I think 2-3. You fold the muslin over top of the felt piece and then you bast stitch (which is a long hand stitch used to just keep things in place) around your felt piece then you roll it up and put rubber bands or in my case hair ties on either end so that while you are washing it little pieces don't fall out. After that you put it in the wash with your other cloths for a normal cycle including drying. |
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| When it is done drying you take it out and take out the basting and slowly and carefully pull back the muslin because the wool fibers will have attached to the cotton in the muslin and TA DA! you have felt! Felt is mostly used in hats and when they make it on a manufacturing level a few of these steps will be different. |
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| The finished product |
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| This is a plain weave fabric I made in class. |
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| This is my mood board for Women's Evening Wear 2013. |
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| This is my knit made out of chiffon.I got a rather nice sample of chiffon out of a fabric shop in Shepperd's bush market and so I tore it into small pieces like you see in the top of the picture and I knitted them together to see what it looks like. |
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| This is a close view of my knitted chiffon. |
Don't forget to have pictures of the process when you are done.
ReplyDeleteVery nice job. Thanks for all the great information.
ReplyDeleteNo problem there will be plenty more cause the class has just started!
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