New kit: Wisteria Flowers Felt Mobile
The new Wisteria Flowers Felt Mobile craft kit!
11th August
With heat waves and down pours in the forecast, it’s great to have a few craft projects on the go, and this one is perfect for bringing that summer colour from the garden indoors.
I love the colour and the fresh smell of lavender that comes out at this time of year. It’s so refreshing and energising! For me, it’s the flower that really tells me that summer is in full bloom.
Summer lavender
For this make, I really wanted to celebrate this beautiful summer colour, but this lovely felt didn’t seem to suit the tough upright stalks of lavender so the design transformed into rows of luxuriously flowing Wisteria flowers.
A stunning photo of wisteria
I love how these designs transform in front of me. You never quite end up with what you intended to make. That’s just one of the wonderful things about creativity, standing back and watching it evolve and take on a life of it’s own. I usually make 2 or 3 prototypes before the final make on the video guide. They never look quite as good but I think you can tell when there’s some potential.
One of my earlier designs. The final craft kit gets an upgrade on the felt which makes it look much better quality and I’ve adjusted a few things to make it neater, but the basics are there!
The Eco Credentials
Who doesn’t love felt? At some point in our lives we’ve all crafted with soft, fluffy, multi-coloured felt. It’s one of the first things that we craft with at school. But how many of us know what it really is?
Traditionally felt is made using wool. A barbed needle or set of needles are used to slowly mesh the fibres together to make a sheet of felt fabric. You can have a go at making felt from wool if you grab our Needle Felting Heart Garland kit from the online shop.
Nowadays, most of the felt you’ll find is made from polyester (plastic). Why? It’s cheap! So cheap! You can get a stack of plastic felt for pennies whereas 100% wool felt can be at least 10 times the price. 100% wool felt is incredible. It’s so soft and strong and is an amazing insulator. So if you’re making something special or adding it to clothing, you’ve got a winner there. But, luckily for us eco crafters on a budget, there is a more cost effective option.
Wool/viscose blends! This is wool blended with cellulose from plants. It’s not as cheap as plastic felt but it’s much much cheaper than 100% wool and it performs and feels much more like a wool felt. That’s what I’ve chosen for this mobile and it wouldn’t work without it.
Love these summer purples together
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