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Felting Over a Bar of Soap
If you've never felted over a bar of soap, you might like to try it
just once
and see how you like it! Some people really get down to business and
felt tons
of bars for gifts and craft shows. It becomes a self soaping scrubby
bar :)
As
with any project, there are endless ways to go about it, and below
is one approach that I have found easy and fun to do!
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For
great results on your first try, start with merino cross batting, and a bar of olive oil soap. If your soap has very sharp edges, consider rounding them with a vegetable peeler or knife. |
Lay
two overlapping strips, one running north and south, the other
running east to west. It should be just
enough wool to evenly cover you bar of soap. |
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Fold/wrap
the wool tightly around the bar of soap, covering all areas. If
you leave a hole in the wrapping, you will have a hole in the
finished product. Holes grow wider as the wool shrinks towards
other fibers and away from the gap. |
Now
your bar should be completed covered in wool.With batting, the
fibers are already going in many different directions, so the
felting will come easily. Roving or sliver will do better with
at least three layers to get the fibers criss-crossing. |
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Place your hand inside a pair of knee-high stockings and grab the bar of soap, then fold the stocking around the bar so it is fully encased.The wool should lay flat and be without folds. The stocking provides a nice barrier and will hold the wool in place while you felt. |
Wrap
hair bands around the stocking to hold it in place. Dunk your
soap in hot water, pressing hte water through and the air out.
Begin massaging the surface of the wool through the stocking.
Rotate the bar in your hands, rubbing all sides and corners to
felt the wool evenly and firmly. |
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When the fibers begin to migrate through the stocking, gently peel it off and continue felting by hand.Rinse as needed if it gets too sudsy, and when you have a nice skin on your felt, shape it and set it to dry. It will firm up as it dries. If desired, put a label on it and there you have it! Here
is a free label template in Word you can use and change... |
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