How Do You Felt With Peacock Feathers?
Needle felting is an old-fashioned art that can turn basic wool roving into beautiful craft creations. While most needle-felting artists use metal felting needles to felt their wool, some artists prefer to try to use other objects to felt wool, such as peacock feathers. Fill a bowl with warm water. Add five drops of dish soap into the water, mixing the solution well. Place a peacock feather into the bowl. Wash the feather gently. Rinse the feather off well with clear water. Place the feather onto a towel to dry. Once dry, hold the peacock feather with the feathery tip pointing down. Cut notches into the quill end of the feather using a pen knife. Make sure that the notches are cut toward the end of the quill, and not toward the feathery end. This will allow the quill end to snag the wool roving to felt it together. Hold a wad of wool roving in one of your hands. Stick the barbed end of the peacock felting needle into the wool roving repeatedly. This will felt the roving by tangling the
