{"id":2132,"date":"2010-09-29T06:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2010-09-29T06:48:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:48:39","slug":"holiday-felting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/09\/29\/holiday-felting\/","title":{"rendered":"holiday felting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Hornsby-Australia\/Vetty-Creations\/138020852878107?ref=sgm\" target=\"_blank\">Vetty Creations Facebook page<\/a> yesterday, you will know that I was planning to stitch some butterflies. Did it happen?<\/p>\n<p>No. Unfortunately I ran out of time. With it being holidays, my focus at the moment is more on my kids than it normally is when they are at school. They have been going to a holiday club at a local church in the morning (and having a great time), and in the afternoon, we are at home together.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a lovely sunny day, with beautiful warm weather. It was the perfect day for some felting in the backyard. And so we did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/felting-0309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/felting-0309.jpg\" alt=\"felting in the backyard\" title=\"felting-0309\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2134\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/felting-0309.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/felting-0309-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As none of us had ever done it before, I did one first, with my eldest reading <a href=\"http:\/\/rosiepink.typepad.co.uk\/rosiepink\/tutorial-wet-felt-making-for-beginners.html\" target=\"_blank\">the instructions<\/a> to me, and them helping with counting the minutes of agitation. After I had done mine and we understood the process, they did theirs, with me helping with the rolling agitation (it gets a bit tiring for little arms!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/myfelt-0311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/myfelt-0311.jpg\" alt=\"my felt\" title=\"myfelt-0311\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/myfelt-0311.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/myfelt-0311-150x142.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We all enjoyed it very much. I can now say that we understand the process of how to wet felt very well. I can&#8217;t say that we came away with the most attractive creations that you have ever seen though! The girls were very happy with theirs (of course, and so they should be!) but as an attractive surface for embroidering on, I&#8217;ll need a bit more practice in learning how to &#8220;design&#8221; with unfelted wool fluff.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll certainly be giving it a go again, as it was great fun, and I can see definite possibilities for embroidering on handmade felt.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a great tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/rosiepink.typepad.co.uk\/rosiepink\/how-to-make-felt-with-chi.html\" target=\"_blank\">felting a picture for kids<\/a>, on the same blog that I got my instructions from, and some beautiful inspiration on the <a href=\"http:\/\/rosiepink.typepad.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> itself.<\/p>\n<p>Stitching butterflies today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you visited the Vetty Creations Facebook page yesterday, you will know that I was planning to stitch some butterflies. Did it happen?<\/p>\n<p>No. Unfortunately I ran out of time. With it being holidays, my focus at the moment is more on my kids than it normally is when they are at school. 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