▲ 34 ▼ How does that craft where you stab a ball of fluff with a needle until it looks like something work? (lemmy.world) submitted 7 months ago by spittingimage@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children) It's called felting. It's just condensing all the hairs together. They have to be coarse enough to bind to each other Fun fact, you can felt dog hair but not cat hair permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago This is my cats hair rolled into a dreadlock pretzel permalink fedilink source parent [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child) Fun fact, you can felt dog hair but not cat hair You can absolutely felt cat hair. I don't even need needles to get my cats fur to solidify into a ball, I just massage a bunch of it like a snowball. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Huh I've tried felting cat hair before and had zero success. It's too long, I ended up just burying it in regular felt. Whereas my dog's hair was super easy to felt into a mini version of her permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago Probably depends on the cat and hair length permalink fedilink source parent [–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago You can definitely felt cat hair. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago This is my cats hair rolled into a dreadlock pretzel permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child) Fun fact, you can felt dog hair but not cat hair You can absolutely felt cat hair. I don't even need needles to get my cats fur to solidify into a ball, I just massage a bunch of it like a snowball. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Huh I've tried felting cat hair before and had zero success. It's too long, I ended up just burying it in regular felt. Whereas my dog's hair was super easy to felt into a mini version of her permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago Probably depends on the cat and hair length permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Huh I've tried felting cat hair before and had zero success. It's too long, I ended up just burying it in regular felt. Whereas my dog's hair was super easy to felt into a mini version of her permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago Probably depends on the cat and hair length permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago Probably depends on the cat and hair length permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago You can definitely felt cat hair. permalink fedilink source parent