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Cooking Felt Boots

Posted on | January 28, 2011 | 4 Comments


I just wanted to cook them and then eat them. Planning for them started last week in my mind. Mental Notes taken and preparation was complete shortly after. I drew some designs on my sketch book and defined the elements i needed for these boots:

1- design ( Flat? heels? sport? fun?)
Surface design ( texture? simple?)
2-color ( some dying may be involved?)
3-thickness
4-height
5-foot size ( 6~7)
After the main questions were answered, it was time to do the wool measurements. How many grms of merino do I need? How many grams of a thicker breed do I need? After these were answered, it was time to cook my delicious felt boots :)

The Felting process was done in different steps, approximately 14 hrs of felting involved. Wooden blocks was used to shape the feet section:



Now they are sitting on the table, it will take one week for them to dry out. After that, second stage would be more detailed surface design. Third stage is installing an awesome pair of soles! good bless the cobbler, Amen!

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4 Responses to “Cooking Felt Boots”

  1. sid
    January 29th, 2011 @ 8:02 pm

    wowwwwwwwww!
    great combination of colors!
    I love how you can easily bring a range of different color together and rock them!
    SO beautiful!
    U r really talented! i get motivated by checking ur blog

  2. viltalakim
    January 31st, 2011 @ 8:21 am

    Nice boots!! I hvae never made them that high. I have one very curious and maybee silly question: but why do you cook them????
    I’d love to know:)

  3. shefelt
    February 2nd, 2011 @ 1:53 am

    I just joked about cooking them, I did’nt really :). But you can simmer your boots with dyes which I did. Thanks for reading my blog

  4. kyle
    February 19th, 2011 @ 5:59 pm

    your good

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