Felting a camera sheath

Step 4 The actual felting

After making three layers (if you want really thick felt, just keep adding layers, three layers made it only about 3-4 mm thick) spray the sheet with some soap water (I used regular dish washing liquid diluted with water). Keep spraying an patting the sheet until it's wet all over and flat. The pour about a deciliter of hot water (more if it's a big sheet) and start gently rubbing the wool. Start at the edges and work in small circles. When you have something that seems to be holding together, turn it over and keep rubbing.

Now it's just a matter of rubbing until you have something you're satisfied with. I wasn't getting it as even as I would like and folded the sheet at a couple of places, it's probably easier if you make thicker felt. Since I was making a camera bag I'd made a wooden block roughly the same size as the camera that I could felt around. So when it was starting to look like something I put the block on the sheet and folded the lower part over the block. the I folded in the sides. The plan was to just rub the sides until they felted together. This didn't work all that well however, it just didn't stick...