Snood making in process with Robyn Smith along with detailed instructions 15th Jan 2022

 We had a marvellous day making felt snoods.

1.       Lay your bubble wrap bubbles up on an old towel

2.       Lay your resist on top of the bubble wrap with the longer edge in-line with you.

3.    3.   Lay a fine layer of silk or viscose fibres on the resist, lay them horizontally keeping them two inches in from the long edge of the resist and you can overhang slightly on the shorter edge.

4.   4.    Lay your first layer of wool (lay fine) in the same direction to the as the silk/viscose fibres, try and keep it fine and even.

5.   5.    Lay your second layer this time vertically (in the opposite direction to the layer below) and put any embellishments on top.

6. Place your net over the top or your wool, wet down with your warm soapy water, also running your bar of soap over the fibres to make sure they are completely wet

7.       Keep the net on and turn over the whole piece with the resist in place.

8.       Lay your layer of silk/viscose as on the other side and your first layer of wool.

9.       Fold in the edges from the first side that have over hung.

10.       Now lay down your second layer of wool horizontally and any embellishments as on the previous side.

5.     11 Place the second piece of net on, wet down as done previously. This time once it is all wet and soapy spend 10-15 rubbing the fibres gently all over, make sure you work along the folded edge so it doesn’t move and cause a seam. You can check if the fibres are starting to felt by pinching the wool and looking if they are starting to attach, if the have then you can turn the piece over and repeat this process on the other-side, if not then rub for longer to make sure the fibres are starting to adhere. Its worth spending time on this stage as you don’t want the fibres to move in the next stage.

12.       Remove the net

7.       13 Next fold the edge of the bubble wrap to the edge of your felt and roll the bubble wrap up into a sausage shape. Gently roll the wrap backwards and forwards about 40 times, open the roll back up, turn your felt piece over and turn it around 90` and roll up again, repeat this until you have rolled the felt from each direction. Go through this process again so about 360 rolls in total then open up and remove the resist.

8.      14 Carry on rolling the scarf up in the bubble wrap and rolling but make sure in between each set of rolls you run your hands between the layers of scarf as they will want to try and felt together. Keep going until the scarf has stopped shrinking, rinse out the soapy water and leave to dry.

Andrea has cut her snood up to make four fabulous book covers.