Felted Heart Sweater
Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison welcome Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and author, Taylor Dayne. From America's Test Kitchen, Julia Collin Davison prepares white chicken chili. “The Cookie Book” author, Rebecca Firth makes chocolate crinkle cookies. "What to Eat When" author, Dr. Michael Roizen visits our home. Debbie makes everything bagel ham rolls. Larissa Wohl has a preview of Hallmark Channel’s “2019 American Rescue Dog Show.” Ken Wingard creates wool heart sweaters. Shirley Bovshow shows us how to grow chamomile plants. Maria Provenzano is here with DIY Valentine’s Day makeup bags. Our family members share how learning the unique ways we give and receive love can transform our relationships. Credit: © 2019 Crown Media United States, LLC | Photo: jeremy lee/ Alexx Henry Studios, LLC.
Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison welcome Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and author, Taylor Dayne. From America's Test Kitchen, Julia Collin Davison prepares white chicken chili. “The Cookie Book” author, Rebecca Firth makes chocolate crinkle cookies. "What to Eat When" author, Dr. Michael Roizen visits our home. Debbie makes everything bagel ham rolls. Larissa Wohl has a preview of Hallmark Channel’s “2019 American Rescue Dog Show.” Ken Wingard creates wool heart sweaters. Shirley Bovshow shows us how to grow chamomile plants. Maria Provenzano is here with DIY Valentine’s Day makeup bags. Our family members share how learning the unique ways we give and receive love can transform our relationships. Credit: © 2019 Crown Media United States, LLC | Photo: jeremy lee/ Alexx Henry Studios, LLC.
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Debbie Matenopoulos and Cameron Mathison welcome Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter and author, Taylor Dayne. From America's Test Kitchen, Julia Collin Davison prepares white chicken chili. “The Cookie Book” author, Rebecca Firth makes chocolate crinkle cookies. "What to Eat When" author, Dr. Michael Roizen visits our home. Debbie makes everything bagel ham rolls. Larissa Wohl has a preview of Hallmark Channel’s “2019 American Rescue Dog Show.” Ken Wingard creates wool heart sweaters. Shirley Bovshow shows us how to grow chamomile plants. Maria Provenzano is here with DIY Valentine’s Day makeup bags. Our family members share how learning the unique ways we give and receive love can transform our relationships. Credit: © 2019 Crown Media United States, LLC | Photo: jeremy lee/ Alexx Henry Studios, LLC.
A Designer-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named has a beautiful heart sweater out now. I naively thought, oh, I’ll buy one. Then I saw the price tag. So, I put my DIY cap on and came up with one that I like even better! Felting is the process of entwining wool fibers to create a new fabric. So, this heart isn’t a patch, or knitted, it’s actually wool that’s become part of the fabric. Really cool, huh. Also, really easy and really, cough, cough, cheap.MATERIALSWool sweaterWool rovingFelting needleFelting pad or brush (or piece of foam)(You can find all the felting tools at most craft stores)Heart cookie cutterSTEPSPlace your felting brush or pad inside your sweater at the location you wish to felt.Place your cooking cutter.Choose your roving color and pull some off with your fingers.Spread it within your cookie cutter.Take your felting needle..and push it down through the roving, the sweater and into the pad below. The teeth on the needle will grab a few fibers of roving and push it though to the other side, entangling it with the sweater fibers. Keep punching away, paying extra attention to the edges.After about 5 minutes it’ll look like this. Now remove the cookie cutter and touch up any of the edges that aren’t clean by punching the needle around the exterior. If there are places where the felting is thin, you can pull off a little more roving and punch it into the thin areas.Pull the sweater off the pad, the back will look all fuzzy. Take an iron on the wool seating with steam and iron the front and back of the heart to set the fibers.Wear your heart on your sweater with pride.