a life of felt - Angela Barrow » wet felt http://www.angelabarrow.co.uk/Blog Felt and more Fri, 18 May 2012 18:59:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Harrier’s Progress http://www.angelabarrow.co.uk/Blog/2010/03/harriers-progress/ http://www.angelabarrow.co.uk/Blog/2010/03/harriers-progress/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:52:57 +0000 angela http://www.angelabarrow.co.uk/Blog/?p=762 I decided to have another go at a Marsh Harrier model with wire in the wings. There was no suitable wire in the house so I went to the local florists and chose from within their stock. It’s not a covered wire so the fibres might have slipped off it whilst I was trying to wrap them around. To counteract this I covered the wire with masking tape after twisting them together, it gives the fibres a little grip.

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I used a mix of norwegian and merino fibres. the norwegian is very easy to needlefelt and the merino wet felts well. Ths may be the best combination of fibres for me to use as I intend to use both dry and wet felting techniques. Needlefelting allows me to sculpt the shape and place the markings exactly whilst wet felting will consolidate and strengthen the felt.

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The wire in the wings has worked very well and shows no signs of piercing the felt, which had been a concern. I’ve improved the shape and the size is right. I need to fatten the body out and shape the beak more but I believe the next bird might be a finished article.

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