Experimentation- Felting

   I would probably say that out of all our samples that we learned, felting was my least favourite. Felting takes around 30 minutes to do but feels like a lifetime.
   First of all you have to get some white sheep wool. You lay it flat in thin layers on the table, after that you can then start adding colour to it. You lay colour sheep wool over the white layer to create your image. After you have made you picture, you then lay a piece of fishnet over your wool. You have to drench your wool with water. Once your wool is soaked, you can then start rolling it. You need to roll it 4 times, for four minutes each time, turning it 90 degrees after each 4minute roll.
   Once you have rolled your wool for around 16 minutes you should have made felt. You then need to dip it in boiling water for one minute so all the fibres of the wool stick together. It then needs 24 hours to dry.
   The reason I don’t like felting is because, one it is very tiring to create, and two, I don’t really like the end result as you can’t really get it very neat.