Making felt balls with Rachael Greenland

How to make felt balls.

A simple tutorial video showing you how easy it is making felt balls. What you do with them is up to you - let your imagination run wild.

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[Audra Tafoya]

IT LOOKS SO FUN.... It's just soapy water in the beg. Right? And can u do more tutorials and make diffrent shapes and and animals and stuff?? Thanx :D

[Rachael Greenland]

It IS fun! I hope to make more videos in the future; I am in the process of setting up a studio where it will be easier to demonstrate larger pieces of felt, and also putting kits together for people to try it for themselves.

Have you done any felting? Are you tempted to try if you haven't?

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[loserville5000]

I love the bird songs in the background! Also, I apologize if this has been answered before, but what is the function of the soap? Does the frothiness assist with the matting somehow?

[Rachael Greenland]

The soap helps the fibres to move over each other and changes the Ph, the heat from the water opens up the scales, and the rubbing ensures that everything locks together. If you have a lot of froth you may be using too much soap, and it also makes life harder when it comes to rinsing it out at the end.

[TheForeverEternity]

what r u using in your clip of making the Dryer Balls ?

[Rachael Greenland]

Dryer balls?

[Rachael Greenland]

If you are able to wait a week or so, I will be putting some kits together and you can get them from me. Do you have a colour preference?

[Yuki Lei]

Where do u buy the felt wool?

[Alexander Ly]

:3 looks fun..... :3

[stephgtpify]

O..

[Deborah Silver]

The material is wool roving, which is cleaned, carded and combed wool. No doubt it can be purchased online.