Tips for Sewing with Felt
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Ashley Hough provides helpful tips and techniques for sewing with felt fabrics. See how felt is one of the easiest fabrics to work with. Eliminate potential sewing mistakes by learning how to properly handle this specific type of fabric. Advance in your sewing skills today and check out our videos on working with different types of fabrics!
Felt is one of the easiest fabrics to work with. It's easy to cut out, the ends don't ravel, and makes it great for just a super quick project. There's a couple things that you want to keep in mind about felt. When you have a project and you've already made it, you don't want to press directly onto the fabric. That can flatten the pile of the fabric.
And these days, a lot of felt is actually made from recycled plastic bottles, so the felt could actually melt if you put the iron directly on it. Another thing, if you have maybe two pieces of felt and you just want to attach this end really quickly with just a simple running stitch, a lot of times, you'll want to put a lot of stitches on the needle at once and then pull the thread through, but it's best to do it just one or two at a time and pull it through. That way, at the end, you're not trying to flatten it out. Because if you pull too much, you can actually change the shape and ruin your felt project.
Didn't know that some felt was made from recycled plastic bottles - that's cool!
I like your sewing program
The quality of the felt sucks, use wool felt, a bit more expensive, I know, but so much better.