Very long chat about CHRISTMAS FAIRIES, the new WEBSITE, and what we have been doing recently

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3 жыл бұрын

Hello everyone! This video is about what we have been up to over the last two weeks (apologies for the lack of video last week!) and I take the opportunity to show you some of the things I have been making: Christmas wool fairies, needle-felted standing figures, wet-felted bookmarks and some greetings cards.
I have launched a new website, and here is the link if you would like to check it out: www.lostartsofnature.co.uk
There will be a shop update on Saturday 5th December.
If you would like to become a Patron, it would be lovely to have you! The link for that is: / lostartsofnature
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@lilacblossom5520 2 жыл бұрын

A new subscriber here, this is my second video to watch and found it so varied and interesting. I suppose my biggest interest at the moment is learning to how to do felting, I am so eager to get started because you have inspired me to go on line now, to buy all I that need to do the job creatively. I'd like to focus on fairies and Angels to start with, however there are a couple of questions I'd like ask if I may, and that is *1 how do you make the wool stay rigid especially for it to last a long time, therefore I am wondering if I need to buy some sort of spray on stiffner?... *2 do you ever make your own felt from balls of wool at all, I have seen this done which would help to keep costs down in the beginning of my venture, I would love to know your thoughts on this?... x

@lostartsofnature6113 2 жыл бұрын

Hello there! Thank you for your kind words. To answer your questions... I have never needed to use a spray to hold the wool. As long as they are not handled too much they actually are very good at keeping their shape and "fluffiness". If they do get handled and lose their shape a bit, then I have found that combing them through with a felting needle is all they need to restore them to their former glory! Having said that, you could perhaps experiment with using a hairspray of some sort, but as I say I've not done that personally so couldn't recommend one to use. For your second question, I have made felt from knitted-up wool squares but never from a ball of wool so I'm not sure I can answer for that one. For these fairies you would need to use combed merino wool to get that beautiful floaty-ness. Thank you for your comments, you have inspired me to make some more videos about the fairies. I still make lots of them and sell them locally, but I haven't filmed them for some time now. Maybe it's time they made a comeback! Happy fairy making!