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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Sta.sh
Honestly the key to getting a smooth wool skin is mainly due to 3 things:
1. POKE, POKE, POKE.... Yea, you just gotta keep poking. If you kind of poke at a 45˙ (degree) or more angle, then you are just felting the surface fibers instead of poking straight up & down into the piece.
2. What kind of wool are you using?... This might have something to do with the fuzziness. Some wools are really coarse & kinky (huh-huh) and will always have a more "natural & primitive" look. I use mainly MERINO wool to felt my larger pieces. This is a very fine & soft wool that takes longer, but has a nice clean finish.
3. Give your piece a hair-cut!!!.... That's right, just snip all those little loose hairs off. I do it to all my pieces. I like the cleaner look, so I just take a small pair of scissors & trim off all the little wisps.
Hope this helps!! Thanks!!
Chrissy M.
To be honest, I have no idea what kind of crappy wool I started out with. It was some absolutely worthless, coarse, overpriced junk from Clover. Their needles were fine, but that wool was awful and honestly smelled like pee. BLEH! I actually splurged this past week and bought myself an 8oz batch of 22 micron Merino top, so we will see how much that helps me build my technique.
Thank you so much again!
Serena E.