Things you need to start felting

You will need wool roving, which most likely you will need to buy online. I live in Los Angeles and the only store I know where you can buy it is Acorn - natural toy store in Santa Monica. Unfortunately their price is very high for very little wool and colors are not very exiting either.
So far I bought my roving from:
* http://.sakinaneedles.com (they had great seconds at the time-so I got 2 pounds of different color handpainted roving for 27 dollars including shipping!)
*from this etsy shop Fibrespace http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=90208 While it was not as cheap, but still much better than most stores and the colors are just wonderful - very crisp and bright. Since I already had mixed colors - I was very happy to get separate bright colors who can be accents in my creations. And you will support an artist buying from etsy.com
*this last shop I used mostly for tools, but I also bought couple darker colors like black and navy http://www.hookedonfelt.com .
The last one sells felting needles and tools with multiple needles - very useful if you want to needle felt bigger objects like scarfs, hats or even clothing. Their prices are the best and tools are very good. You will need a foam for needlefelting, which I bought from Joann's(they are used in stuffing furniture and you buy them by inches - sign up for the coupon and it will be very inexpensive.)
If you want to wet felt you also need a bar of soap. They say olive soap is the best, but I use regular. Bamboo placemat or bubble wrap is a good surface to wet felt on. Save net fabric peaces(like lacy curtain or tule) for felting wet flat peaces.
For embelishment you can use silk, soy, bamboo and other fibers and yarn too. If it is not feltable, you can arrange it on the peace and then add a little of roving and felt it to make it stay in place.

Why this blog?

Wool felting is so much fun! I created this blog so I can show you how easy and fun it is to felt and also to share my creations.