Handmade Art Jewelry and Felting

Natural felt made from wool is best suited for these crafts.

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Combine the techniques of handmade jewelry and felting into wearable art. Felt fabric itself can be used or wool roving, which is cleaned and combed wool that is ready for spinning into yarn, can be formed into felt pieces to be worn. Most of the projects are simple enough for beginning crafters to accomplish on their own.

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One of the simplest ways to craft felt into jewelry is to fabricate felted beads. Wad together a handful of natural wool roving in your favorite color or add several colors together. Dip your hands into warm water and then rub the wool in your hands. Pull the wool into a rope and cut it into thick pieces with a pair of scissors. Roll the pieces onto a bar of soap and rinse with hot water. Shape it into a ball to finish the bead. Thread the beads onto embroidery floss or thin cord to fashion a necklace or a bracelet.

Scraps

Utilize scraps of felt into a handmade necklace. Cut your scraps into different sizes of squares and rectangles between 1/2-inch wide to 3 inches wide. Punch out a small hole in the center of each piece. Thread a leather or silk cord alternating through the felt fabric and metallic-colored beads. Secure a clasp on the end of the cord to create a felt necklace or bracelet.

Locket

Construct a needle felt locket to wear around your neck. Cut out a piece of felt fabric that fits into a gold or silver locket on a chain. Sketch out a design to add wool roving. Press a small piece of colored wool roving onto the felt and stab it with your needle felting tool to keep it into place. Add more wool roving and stab it with the tool. Spray on water with a drop of mild detergent to keep the needle felting in place. Squeeze a drop of glue into the locket and push the felt piece inside.

Brooch

Design an image for a felt brooch on scrap paper. Cut it out and use it as a template on a piece of felt fabric. Decorate the felt with an embroidered blanket stitch around the felt, which is a type of decorative edging. Glue on beads or stitch on felt applique to the larger piece of felt. Once the felt piece is finished, sew on a brooch pin to the back of the felt.

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