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Diy Felt Boots
Felt boots are very necessary for the Steppe Nomad Persona and are great fun to create. Let's see how to make it.
Instructions for felting a boot…
1. Create a resist by tracing the outline of our sock. Size that outline up by about 40% and then straighten the ankle portion up slightly.
2. Cut out the resist and begin layering your wool, horizontally then vertically uptil you have built up at least 6 to 8 layers of wool. Make sure to leave at least an inch of overlap past the end of the pattern piece. This becomes your seam. The more layers the thicker and stronger your boots will be in the end.
3. Wet the area of the piece that the resist covers with hot, soapy water. Place a piece of tulle over this area after after removing the resist and began to felt using small, gentle circles. As you work the area with your hands remember to add more hot, soapy water if the wool trys to come up with your hands. Keep felting untill you can pinch the area and the wool does not come up between your fingers.
4. Place the resist on top of your wool batt. Begin covering the resist horizontally completely then fold down the inner most layer of overlap batting onto the horizontal layer. Next lay out a vertical layer and again bring a layer from the overlap and place over the layer you just placed down. Continue for the same number of layers as you put down for the bottom batt.
5. Just as with felting a bag or a hat when you have laid on as many layers on the top as you had on the bottom you can now begin felting the top layer. Cover with a piece of tulle and begin to shake hot, soapy water down the center of the design. Rub in gentle circles on top of the tulle and keep rubbing till the layers feel like they will not pull apart easily. When you believe you may have sufficently felted it take the tulle off and pinch the fibers.
6. Carefully open the boot and gently place your hand inside, supporting the seam which are still dry and unfelted. Make sure that you have even coverage around the searm area as this is where you can ruin the piece by having holes appear. If you have uneven spots pull out some extra roving and make little wool “bandaids” to go from the back to the front to place over the holes. You should then cover the seam with tulle and start gently wetting and pressing it, working your way down towards the bottom of the boot.
Fulling…
1. Roll up your felt
2. Knead it like dough
3. Count to 25
4. Unroll it and reroll the opposite way
5. Knead it like dough
6. Count to 25
7. Unroll and roll up a side
8. Knead it like dough
9. Count to 25
10. Continue till you are happy with the hardness of the felt.
Shrinking—the Final Part of Fulling
Rinse your felt then either add soapy water to it or rub it directly with your olive oil bar soap.
1. Roll it up, bring it up high then THROW it down as hard as you can.
2. Unroll and reroll a different way. Throw it again.
3. Continue until the felt has shrunk to the correct size and/or is the hardness you desired.
4. Rinse all soap out of your felt and lay out to dry. If desired you can lay it on a form.
Custom Fitting your Boot!
When you have felted down your boot to nearly the same size as as your foot you can take it to the shower or bathtub and fully customize it to your foot. Sit on the side of the tub and run the water as hot as you can stand it. With your soap in hand put the boot on your foot then scrub it with the soap and hot water. This will cause the boot to felt down further onto the shape of your foot.
Finishing touches
-Consider shaving your felt or using an iron and a cloth to steam it flat.
-Embroider it or add beads, bangles, plaques, or feathers.
-Sew a piece of leather or fabric bias edging on the opening for a finished
look or a handsewn blanket stitch.
Walking around in your boots inside is great, warm and comfortable.
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