Mastering Wet Felting: Create Decorative Wool Items
Shaping and Assembling the Cushion 1
A course by Natasha Smart , Wet felting artist
Joined July 2024
Joined July 2024
About the video: Shaping and Assembling the Cushion 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we’ll add the resists and complete the wet felting process to create our cushion.”
In this video lesson Natasha Smart addresses the topic: Shaping and Assembling the Cushion 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mastering Wet Felting: Create Decorative Wool Items. Learn wet felting techniques to transform wool fiber into decorative home items like lampshades and seamless cushions.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now that our fibre and our embellishment layout is all prepared, we're ready to construct the cushion around the resist templates and then start felting it. So I've already turned the Fibre Layout back to the reverse side. So the first thing we're going to do is get the placement of the template right. and then we'll be folding the first flap over. So here's one of my templates. So I'm placing it on top of the reverse And I want to leave enough for the flap to pulled over. I'm just going to measure that. So I think... 34 centimetres from the furthest edge. should be about right. So I've lef...”
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Course summary for: Mastering Wet Felting: Create Decorative Wool Items
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Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fiber Arts, Needle Felting
Natasha Smart
A course by Natasha Smart
Natasha Smart is a wet felting artist, teacher, and author based on the south coast of the UK. With a lifelong passion for textiles and creative crafts, Natasha transitioned from a career in training to full-time feltmaking in 2021. Her work is inspired by the textures, colors, and forms of the natural world—especially the sea and landscapes surrounding her coastal home—and is known for its vibrant color palettes and use of wool yarns as decorative elements. She has authored two books, Wet Felting and Three-dimensional Wet Felting, and continues to share her expertise through in-person workshops and online platforms.
In her creative practice, Natasha specializes in turning raw wool fibre into structured, decorative objects for the home. She is particularly drawn to practical, functional design and enjoys the problem-solving involved in felt construction. Her courses are grounded in clear instruction, thoughtful design choices, and a strong belief in making wet felting accessible and enjoyable for all skill levels.
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