Felted Wool Covered Rocks
Feb 20th, 2012 by Casey
Thanks to an awesome tutorial by Lil Fish Studios Sairshe and I made some felted rocks today. It was the perfect easy project for this school-free day. It was really fun and our finished rocks feel so soft and fuzzy and lend an air of springtime to our table.

We started by wrapping our rocks in a couple layers of wool roving. I just happened to have these Easter-y colors sitting around. (The roving is from a drop-spindle class I took forever ago!) I needle felted the ends a little so the roving would stay in place during the felting process.


Sairshe is patiently waiting to felt her purple rock.
We swished and squeezed the rocks in warm, soapy water. This was Sairshe’s favorite part but it wasn’t without a small mishap.


There’s bound to be spilling when a bowl of water and a 4 1/2 year old get together, though I’m not sure how the nutcracker got there.
When the wool seemed firm and dense we rubbed them with a plastic bag to smooth them off, thanks to the great tip in the tutorial. I needle felted an S onto Sairshe’s rock (you can see it in the 1st photo) and left the rest plain. I love how they turned out. Sairshe is pretty proud too. I thought she might get frustrated with this project but she was totally into it and did a great job with her rock! She even made a second one- the pink and green one in the picture at the top of the post.




We are faced with so many produce choices at the supermarket even in the winter. Asparagus, pineapples, blueberries and avocados are just some of the out-of-season and/or non-local foods I saw yesterday at my favorite grocery store. Some of that food traveled over 6,000 miles from Chile to get to my store in Portland, OR!


















