Solidifying Felt Bracelets

Video Transcript

"We're still working our wool, and I'm still pinching and squishing, but I can feel that it's starting to change. You'll be able to tell when it's starting to feel a little more solid, especially on the surface. I'm still not squeezing a lot. I'm pinching, but I'm pinching in a different direction. Again; that's to help keep from getting a lot of creases in there. It's kind of hard to do; especially on the inside. You're trying to keep folding it in to cover up your linen cord. Keep trying to avoid emphasizing those creases, and make sure you work all the way around, real gently when you're doing this. Don't just work in one spot, or you'll have some issues later on. When you feel that solidifying, and starting to shrink up a little bit, You can check, and do what we call the pinch test; where you pinch the surface, and you pull away, and if you can pull away big wisps of wool from the surface, you need to keep working it. When you get to the point where when you pinch it up, all you can get is the lifting of the threads, and everything else is staying in your surface, then you're starting to actually form a skin of felt on the surface of your bracelet. At this point, you can start squishing it a little more, so you can feel it's still very soft and squishy on the inside. You still have a long way to go to make a nice solid felt bracelet, but keep squishing, and squish in all directions; all the way around. In the next segment, we'll start getting a little rougher with it, and see if we can get it to form a tighter felt."