Felting at the Michigan Fiber Festival Symposium in Kalamazoo, MI at the end of March.  I did 2 workshops with Suzanne Higgs.

Day 2 – Fabulous, Funky, Fun Felt Bag

For this workshop we made felt bags using recycled sari silk as surface embellishment.

Light weight, flexible plastic 1 1/2 times larger than the desired bag size is used as a resist – a middle core/layer to keep the wool from felting in the center of the bag.
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Working from the inside out, thin layers of wool are laid out on both sides of the plastic resist.  The inside of the bag will be yellow, with a pink rim folded over to the outside.
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Periwinkle will be the middle color
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and finally the sari silk is wrapped around the entire bag.
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Wet with soapy water, wrap in plastic and start rubbing to felt the wool to the silk
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Here’s how the inside and the outside came out:

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The starting resist size (26″ x 26″) compared to than the final size (15″ x 12″ after folding the edge down).
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Add handles, magnetic snap closure and I’m done!