Felt or wool applique question
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Felt or wool applique question
I want to make a sweatshirt for a friend for Christmas and I wanting to layer applique flowers on it. My question is this: Do I use wool or felt? This will be washed. I am confused as to whether the craft felt is washable or I should just get wool for the applique pieces? And if I use wool, do I wash it first? Help!
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You can buy regular wool, but then you need to shrink it before using. Wool fibers have little hooks that grab each other when the wool is agitated in soapy hot water; drying in a hot dryer helps too. You might want to wash and dry a couple of times to make sure you have shrunk it to the max. Once it is treated like this, the cut edges are unlikely to ravel because the wool has been "felted".
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