Wet Felting Tutorial for Beginners: How to Wet Felt Wool Fabric // Wet Felting Techniques

Learn everything you need to know about wet felting in this tutorial on how to wet felt wool fabric. Save the step by step instructions: https://abcrafty.com/ultimate-guide-to-wet-felting/ This is a simple felting project to make handmade wool felt with wool and fun embellishments. It's perfect for beginners just learning how to wet felt. You can then apply these felting techniques to future wet felting projects. Calculate the wool shrinkage when wet felting with this calculator and print out a cheat sheet to keep with your felting supplies: https://abcrafty.com/wool-shrinkage-calculator/ This way you always know how big to make your wool layout to get the correct size after felting. Find more craft tutorials and felting projects on my crafting blog, AB Crafty: https://www.ABCrafty.com Some of these links may be affiliate links, which means if you click through and purchase, I may receive a commission at no cost to you (thanks in advance!). MATERIALS USED I have a full list of my favorite wet felting supplies on Etsy: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_wet-felting-supplies as well as on my Amazon storefront: https://amzn.to/3XmXkPN I highly recommend starting out with a wet felting kit: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_heidifeathers-boxed-premium-wet-felting (You can also get this on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4ejejsT Wool (make sure it's not superwash wool or it won't shrink): https://abcrafty.com/etsy_wool (You can also get wool roving on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TnMjg1) Olive Oil Soap: https://amzn.to/3TopmJl Mesh Fabric: https://amzn.to/3sLC6ue Bubble Wrap (I like to recycle the plastic packaging from Amazon, but here's a link if you need to buy it new): https://amzn.to/3wgPOrn Ball Brause: https://amzn.to/4bLcd73 Pool Noodle: https://amzn.to/412OFnQ Palm Washboard: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_patented-maple-walnut-palm-washboard-wet Muscle Roller: https://amzn.to/3sFAiTA Hot Water Towel Vinegar Embellishment Fibers: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_felting-embellishments Viscose Fiber: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_ecohobbywool Viscose Thread: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_viscose-white-bright-176oz-50g-for Ramie: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_feltrite Wool Nepps: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_heidifeathers-wool-nepps-mix-8-colours Tussah Silk: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_heidifeathers-tussah-silk-tops-choose Mulberry Silk: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_hand-dyed-mulberry-silk-top-ends-mixed Silk Yarn: https://amzn.to/3xyEzLN Bamboo Top: https://abcrafty.com/etsy_heidifeathers-dyed-bamboo-tops-fibres Wet Felted Coin Purse Tutorial: https://youtu.be/nyI51swdFhs Wet Felted Tiny Hat Tutorial: https://youtu.be/XK_zHKbeJQU Wool Felting Projects Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe0XJGB_NQGBzw09ZYKTINLM8gP-_wtfu All of my crafting projects and DIYs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe0XJGB_NQGCAU7zPMcjeBPE593wIwroS My Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/abcrafty My Lowe's Storefront: https://shoplowes.me/4pnP92P Wayfair Storefront: https://creatorsold.io/wayfair/abcrafty WANT TO GET ME SOMETHING? MY BLICK WISHLIST: http://shrsl.com/4vscf FOLLOW ME: Blog: https://www.ABCrafty.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ab.crafty Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ABCrafty Twitter: https://twitter.com/ABCraftyTweets Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ab_crafty TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@ab.crafty (Note how not all are just ABCrafty) Key Parts of the Tutorial for Easy Access 0:00 Intro | Wet Felting Tutorial 0:10 Separating the wool roving 0:27 Learn how to pull fiber off of wool roving and prepare the fiber layout 1:34 Learn how to make sure you don't have holes in your finished felted fabric 1:46 Add embellishments such as viscose fiber, viscose thread, ramie fiber, silk fiber, and wool nepps 2:07 Preparing soapy water for felting with olive oil soap 2:44 Beginning to wet felt the wool and fiber 3:30 Rolling the wool fabric - shoutout to Living Felt 4:52 Learn how to do the pinch test 5:19 Begin fulling and learn how felting and fulling are different 5:43 Learn how to use a palm washboard and other tools and wet felting techniques 6:43 Learn how to shrink specific parts of the wool fabric by spot fulling 7:05 Soaking the wool in vinegar and learn why it's important 7:24 Measure the final piece to learn the wool shrinkage percentage 7:46 Closeup details of the completed felted wool fabric #felting #wetfelting #wool #felt #roving #craft #diy #abcrafty --- Santo Rico by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/