Please note that this is an instructional pdf download felting tutorial, not a finished product. Nothing will be physically shipped.
This tutorial contains all the instructions and guidance you will need to make a 3D felted vessel using the resist method. It is fully illustrated with photographs showing every stage of making your vessel and contains Feltmakers tips to help you along the way.
The instructions are suitable for beginners and those with previous felting experience.
The instructions are for a bowl shaped vessel with an approximate finished size of 15 cm (6”) in diameter.
*Please note: The instructions tell you everything you need to know to successfully make a round vessel using wet feltmaking techniques like the blue one in the main picture. The colour and the design of the vessel you make will depend entirely on the wool you use to make it. The photographs used in the step by step instructions show a vessel being made from natural coloured wools, so these look slightly different from the blue vessel image - but the technique I am teaching is exactly the same. I also provide other photographs of different vessels for guidance. In all my kits and teaching I aim to provide students with all the knowledge they need whilst giving them some freedom for their own creative input, thereby enabling them to make further items and explore possibilities.
My tutorials, along with my feltmaking kits have been designed to enable complete beginners to have a go and achieve a successful outcome. I have been teaching feltmaking workshops for 11 years and have used this teaching experience to write the instructions and take photographs to help people be successful at different techniques.
Once you have mastered the technique you can increase or decrease the size of the resist, change its shape and play with all sorts of surface embellishments – let your creativity run free and have fun!
Praise for my vessel feltmaking kit upon which this tutorial is based: “The kit is superb. I am very wary of kits as they are usually disappointing and to be avoided. Yours in generous in its supply of required materials – plus the instructions are detailed and extensive. What a wonderful gift I was given. Thank you Jennie for making it so good.” A happy customer, 2018
Check out my Online Classes at: https://jennie-loader-studio-learn.thinkific.com/
You may also like to check out my Feltmaking Kits:
Felted vessels using British Wool: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/515866813/kit-felted-vessels-bowls-with?ref=shop_home_active_12
Fabulous felted flowers: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/502374702/kit-felted-flower-corsage?ref=shop_home_active_1
Beginners feltmaking for two to share: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/246685069/kit-felting-beginners-for-two?ref=listing-shop-header-1
Wonderful wavy scarves: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/502386064/kit-felted-scarf?ref=shop_home_active_14
Terms: This tutorial has been designed and written by myself and is subject to copyright. It is intended for the purchasers’ personal use only. Please do not resell or redistribute either the complete file or elements of it. If you wish to use these instructions for teaching or for groups please do contact me prior to doing so. Also, if you should sell any vessels you have made using my instructions please do credit me, Jennie Loader. Thank you.
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£6.25 tutorial
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