Felt Bracelet Handling Tips

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Part of the video series: How to Make Felt Bracelets

Summary: It is important to be careful handling felt bracelets before they have set in their shape. Learn the proper way to handle felt bracelets with tips from a felting expert in this free craft video.

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By Laura Artates
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Laura Artates began working with fiber arts at 5 years old when She learned to knit Norwegian style while living in South Africa with her family. Laura takes her background in the...read more

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"In this early part of the felting stage, you want to be sure that you're not rubbing across the surface. All that will do is just pull your fibers out of the arrangement, and will actually keep them from felting. You're really just pressing, and squishing, and poking, but no rubbing at this point. The rubbing will happen later on, when you get ready to do your fulling; when you want it to shrink up. Right now, you're just trying to convince all these little fibers that they want to be felt now. The main thing is you can kind of feel that linen cord in there. Make sure that it's still on the inside, and if you have any folds and things that are forming, don't panic; just keep working around the folds. Encourage the folds in any way. The whole thing will shrink eventually if you have not worked any of the folds in there permanently. I'm going to keep working loosely, and that will help keep me from having any funny folds, or lumpy dumpy places on my bracelet. No rubbing at this point. That's one of the most important things to remember. Just keep going gently, and be patient."