Felting

I’ve added felting to my long list of crafting hobbies. Felting is the process of making felt from wool by either hot water with pressure or poking the fibers together with needles. Why would I want to make felt? Because I’m making it into forms, figures, shapes, and beads. I think it’s interesting to see the soft fluffy puffs of wool change, as I work with it, into unique stiff forms.
I happened onto this craft when I was looking at some “how to” patterns of etsy.com. There were these two cute hugging bears made from felting. I then found a link to buy a felting kit. One thing led to another and several days later my felting kit arrived in the mail. I’ve finished my first two projects. I created a heart necklace, (see picture up top) and a purple bunny figure.
My first attempt at flat form felting ended up with my shape sticking to the foam board I used to protect my table. I learned my lesson with a misshaped heart still attached to a chunk of foam. After that incident I was able to make a perfect heart and roll up beads that I turned into a necklace.
Felting reminds me of Romans 11:11-24 -I had to look that up. It actually reminded me of the branches being grafted in. Using felting makes more sense to me because I don’t understand tree grafting. I’m not a botanist. Either way, it reminds me of God’s grace. I’ve been felted into his family.