A little wet-felting...

I taught a wet felting class two weekends ago, and we had a great time.  It's wet and messy, but so much fun working with alpaca wool - luscious stuff - to create a scarf.  We used WY alpaca wool --all in the natural shades. 

Some of the gals got very creative with their combination of colors.  All went away with a lovely, soft, warm scarf.

On Sunday afternoon I was able to get the temperature up high enough in the "sun room" to use it to wet-felt another scarf.  I wanted to make one a bit longer, and the floor was the best option for a work space.  I made this one with what was left of the cream colored alpaca, with some of the curly baby alpaca mix on the ends for embellishment.

This is a scarf made from the baby alpaca mix.

Wet-felting a scarf...

I received in the mail some very soft, fluffy, Cria-mix,  Alpaca roving.  Linda says it's bits and pieces from the babies, all thrown in together.  It's not combed, so it's called Cloud.  It's the softest fiber ... well named... light as a cloud and soft as butter. It feels great!! No itchiness at all!!

I couldn't get into it fast enough to see how many ounces would make a nicely shaped scarf.  I discovered that I could make this one with just under 2 ounces.  Linda said that because it's a very fine fiber, and because it's so fluffy, the fiber goes a long way and actually take less to create a scarf.  It did not take me long at all to lay out 3 layers of fiber and get the felting (kneading with hot water and bit of soap) underway.  Easy-peasy. 

This scarf is narrower and thinner (lighter) than the scarves I've felted in the past, and I really like it better. 

I'm ready for the November wet-felting scarf class!!