Flower Bowl Felting

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From the beautiful book Hand-in-Hand by Jenny Doh, we learned about wet felting flower bowls. Using a good firm grapefruit, we layered raw wool in two colours, before soaking and agitating in soapy, warm water. Mr. M had the suggestion of placing the soaking ball into a plastic bag to agitate it further.

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Once the fibers feel nice and tight, place an elastic band around the center and slice flour petals down from the top to peel back. When it is fully dry, you can remove the grapefruit and add trinkets as desired!

*Make sure you create with plenty of raw wool, in order to make the bowl stiff enough to sit on it's own.