Originally Posted by
Lena1952
Love felting and spinning! I could never get the hang of a drop spindle but a wheel - that works fine for me and I’ve spun loads of yarn. I still have many bags to spin from when I had sheep of my own. As for the felting, are you wet felting or needle felting? While I enjoy both, I do more needle than wet. Have a fun day with wools!
The soap felting today was wet felting and the instructor was....shall I say lacking a bit in direction giving skills. My piece had so many faults on one side that I had to cut off pieces of wool so it would "felt" and adhere to the bar of soap. End result was OK. I did a little needle felting in a class offered by a local HS art teacher about a year ago. That was more interesting but my greater interest in wool is wool applique. I will likely keep trying the drop spindle just for fun. Good teacher with excellent skills and ability to demonstrate and help. We each came home with a bag of roving and a wooden drop spindle. Now that was worth the price of the class.