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Sewing and Making Felt
Crafts
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| About Felt Crafts - |
Felt crafts are fun to make.
Felt comes in bright colors and can be made into many wonder crafts. |
| Best Fabric to Use - |
Felt fabric comes in different
weights. It also comes in a "fur" type of felt. The best type
of felt to use would be a medium weight fabric. To thin of felt is
easily torn. |
| Easy type Pattern - |
As seen in the picture above,
the happy face bean bag would be considered an easy pattern. It is
only 2 pieces and you simply sew in a circle. |
| Difficult type Pattern -
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The frog as seen in the picture
above would be considered a more difficult pattern. It has 6 pattern
pieces and a lot of little curves to sew around and cut around. |
| Pattern Pieces -
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Felt crafts can
have as little as one pattern piece as seen in the happy face bean bag,
and up to many pattern pieces depending on the project. |
| Cost & Fabric usage -
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Little felt
projects of about the size of 10" can cost as little as a couple of
dollars to make. |
| Comments - |
Felt is a "pressed"
fabric, not a woven fabric. A felt seam is harder to rip out then a seam
of cotton fabric. Please read the felt fabric page to learn more on
SEWING WITH FELT. |
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Another type of Felt is Wool Felt.
Wool felt is made by a process that is done to wool which shrinks it's
fibers making it a "harder" fabric or more "dense" type of fabric. Wool
Felt is a non woven blend of wool and other fibers which are bonded
together by heat, pressure, chemical, or a combination. Wool Felt fabric
is awesome to work with and can be found on clothing items, accessories,
crafts, and quilts. It is a wonderful fabric to use for appliqué. |
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These very cool Ballet
Slippers were made from fabric and felt. |
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This is my little version of
"Sponge Bob Square Pants". He is made of yellow, brown, white, and
blue felt. |
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Here are some
recommended books for working with felt. Some of theses books requires no
sewing. I have arranged these books by the easiest to the more difficult ones at
the bottom. Some Books even teach you how to make felt. |
Sewing Felt Crafts Photo Pages 1
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Sewing with Felt Fabric
Making and Sewing Crafts Info page
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