We learn how to make jewelry yourself, by our own hands, by felting

January 1, 2018 handmadebase

Felting from wool is simple and at the same timea magical way to transform a few scraps of sheepskin into a rainbow-colored flower, cute toy or decoration. Hand-made jewelry will be worn with even more pride and joy. Our site will help you learn how to make jewelry for yourself, your family, relatives and friends using the felting method.If, at first glance, it seemed to you thatthe word "felting" is absolutely incomprehensible to you, hard work, then in vain. Felting beautiful jewelry with your own hands - there is nothing better than decorating your home corner yourself, making some toy with your own hands. In order to get started, you need to familiarize yourself with some rules that should be followed when making charming soft toys, jewelry using the felting method. Felting from wool is a simple and at the same time magical way to turn a few scraps of sheepskin "fur coat" into a flower shining with rainbow colors or a cute toy. Moreover, toys made of wool are never the same, because each is born under the mood of the master, patiently collecting strands into an intricate image of a funny animal. What can I say, felting toys from wool is a very curious activity, comparable in inspiration to which, perhaps, only painting or sculpture can be compared.The beauty of wool felting is in its extraordinaryaccessibility - to surprise your girlfriends with original beads or an exclusive scarf, it is enough to buy a simple set of bubble wrap, felting needles and, in fact, natural wool for felting. In general, this is not a difficult and very interesting, entertaining and exciting job. When you create something with your own hands, you are overwhelmed by indescribable joy and pride that this unique product was made with your own hands, independently, without resorting to the help of specialists, professionals. So, before you start working, once again familiarize yourself with some details, concepts, terms. After that, you can start creating real masterpieces. Today we suggest you make a beautiful brooch - an integral feminine detail that very subtly emphasizes, complements the image.For work we will need:1.Wooden tray with sides, 2. IKEA bubble wrap, 3. Soft fine-pored foam sponge for washing dishes or felting brush, 4. Roller with a handle or a regular rolling pin, 5. Florist's wire (0.5 mm thick), 6. Brush for combing cats (dogs), 7. Scissors, 8. Nippers, 9. Round-nose pliers, 10. New Zealand carded wool (colors: black and pink), 11. Viscose fibers (white), 12. Felting needles (preferably square stars No. 38 (US)) 13. Base for a brooch We make a frame for each element of the future orchid - two large petals and three smaller petals and a lip petal. For the frame, I use floral wire, not beaded or copper wire, since the latter are too elastic and flexible; during the wearing of the product, especially under outerwear, petals made of such wire often become deformed, acquiring a slightly different appearance than when the brooch was pinned, and in general they can easily break.We take black wool and comb itbrush so that the resulting wool blank is approximately 5 mm (along the entire perimeter) larger than the wire blank. Personally, I prefer New Zealand carded wool, since this wool is surprisingly easy to felt and has a wonderful appearance in products. The fact is that such types of wool as merino, troitskaya, semenovskaya in the form of combed ribbons are not very suitable for making flower brooches, since the brooch parts are often quite small, and the combed ribbon is very difficult to felt in such small productsPlace the wool blank on a sponge (or brush)and begin to carefully felt it with a needle. This workpiece must be felted until it is half-ready - approximately twice on each side. When working on a brush, it is better to immediately felt with three needles, tightly fastened togetherPlace it on top of the prepared wool blankwire blank and, turning the wool and evenly distributing it over the entire surface of the petal, we gradually close the wire, sinking the wool first at the base of the petal, and then at its top. So we prepare blanks of all the orchid partsLet's get down to the "wet work".We proceed to processing the blanks with soap, warm water and a roller. To do this, you need to prepare a concentrated solution of baby soap (grate a piece of the cheapest baby soap weighing 100 grams on a coarse grater, pour 1.5 - 2 liters of boiling water, stir until the soap shavings are completely dissolved and leave overnight. Liquid soap and "Fairy" are not suitable.) Take a tray, put IKEA film on it, and a petal on top of the film. Wet the petal with warm water (60 degrees), drip a drop of baby soap solution, cover it with IKEA film on top and carefully roll it in four directions 50-10 times with a roller. Regularly check the degree of felting of the wool. So we process all the blanks for the orchid.Let's look at the degree of felting.If there is no longer a threat of the workpiece falling apart and the wool is felted firmly enough, we proceed to finishing by hand. You need to felt carefully by hand, controlling the felting process. Make sure that the wool does not felt to a state smaller than the wire frame.As a result, we got these cute orchid leaves. Now these leaves need to be ironed carefully but thoroughly on the wool setting.Now let's work on the middle of the orchid.Let's make a wire frame for the middle with a loop at one end. Take a strand of pink wool, pass it through the wire loop to the middle and tightly clamp the loop with your fingers We tightly wind the wool around the clamped wire loop and push it through with a needle, forming a ball.All the elements of the work are ready - let's get startedassembly. Since I use floral wire, I do not twist the orchid parts together, but tie them with floss. Carefully and accurately connecting all the elements of the flower, tightly wrap the floss, attach the elements one by one to each other, forming a flower. View from the backNow let's get to the fastening.In fact, already at this stage you can cut the petal wire to the size of the base for the brooch, take a strand of black wool, fix it with PVA glue at the base of the flower and, wrapping the wire with wool, gradually, moving from one edge of the wires to the other, form a platform for fixing the base. I decided to decorate the brooch with three beads, so from the general accumulation of wires I bent the three I liked most. Then the remaining wires for fixing the base should be carefully twisted together and cut to the size of the base.Carefully wrap all the wires with floss. Fix the thread with PVA glue. Twist the wires on which the beads will be attached into light spirals.We glue on beads, loops of waxed cord and sew on the base.Now we close the base platform under the brooch, wrapping it with a strand of black wool and fixing the wool with diluted PVA glue.That's it, the brooch is ready.Here is a beautiful decoration that youdo it yourself, with your own hands. There is nothing easier than working with our website, which is always ready to help. Continue to create, create beautiful products that will warm your soul, your look, warmth and comfort. Reproduce your fantasies, ideas, desires into reality. We wish you successful work!

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