How to Felt a Little Stump: A Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to make a little felt stump using the technique of wet felting ( similar to the stones and eggs you may have seen earlier on this blog). The materials you will need are some wool fleece in a tree stump color, a cork, a small amount of felt or fabric for leaves, embroidery floss and needle, scissors, some hot water and a little dish or other liquid soap. A wash board is useful but optional. 1. Clear a work area . You may need to remove a cat first. 2. Take a wine cork and wrap it with thin layers of fleece making sure to cover it from all directions. I usually use about 4 or 5 thin layers. Moisten this with hot water and add a little dish soap. Rub it gently in your hands using mainly your fingers. When you feel the wool starting to felt together you can start rubbing a little harder using a rolling motion on a hard surface or even a wash board. Don't forget to rub the ends of the cork as well. 3. Now take a strand of fleece about 1 cm thick and wet it with hot water and a little soap and roll in into a felted rope. Rinse the soap out of this and the log and let them dry. The felted rope will later become the branches. 4. When the pieces have dried you can continue. Make a few little leaves out of felt or fabric and sew them onto the rope branch that you have cut into two little pieces about 3 to 4 cm long. Take some embroidery thread in a contrasting color and embroider a few rings in simple stitches on the top of the log. I also added a ring to each side where the branches would be placed. 5. Now poke two little holes in the felt log where you will place the branches an push the end through. You can fasten it with a few stitches in a color to match the log or if you have a needle felting needle you can poke it a few times to join the wool fibers together. This was the method I used. 6. Admire your little stump or it will admire itself. It looks really sweet with some other handmade crafts with a forest theme or some little animals you may have around your home. Remember if this or any other tutorial has you stumped please ask for assistance.

Comments

[Laura]

just delightful! Thanks

[sandra]

Over and over again I am impressed (and inspired) with your work!
Great!

[Valerie]

the fall seasonal table is _so_ excited at our house...(I even taught myself to circle crochet on youtube to make us wee trees).

I love all of your carved animals & trees. They're slightly different than what I've seen in the usual outlets; handmade, or do you have a source you're willing to share?

[Patricia]

Thanks for the great tutorial! You've broken this down into some easy steps, and I love the embroidery!

I have to admit that casting on to the double-pointed needles (for your previous tutorial for the coffee cozies) has me "stumped," but I'm not giving up yet. I think I'll head on over to youtube and see if I can find a tutorial!

Have a great week!

[Rachel]

This has to be one of my favorites so far!

[Nichola]

Beautiful! I think we need something like this for our nature table.

[Emma]

That is one cute stump!

[LollyChops]

Thanks for this great tutorial. You have made this really easy to understand! I cannot wait to give it a try!

[Robin]

That is adorable! Thanks for sharing.

[Steffi]

Hey! This is a sweet tutorial! The beautiful little tree trunk would look so nice next to my recently purchased felt-mushroom, I´ll have to give it a try. So thanks! Also, your cat is really cute ;-)

[Gemma]

Hi Margaret! Thank you so much for the tutorial! It's so cute!! I have posted it in my blog. ;-) Gemma
http://handmadebymelimelum.blogspot.com

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That is very creative because it seems so natural, people could confuse it with a real plant.