Felt-Covered Soap Variation

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Well now that we've shown you how to do a basic felt covered soap, I'd like to show you a little variation. Many people have heard of soap on a rope. So we are going to do felted soap on a felted rope, which is very fun and it's just a neat way to change things up a little bit. So the first thing we have to do is make our felted rope. There's a couple steps to that, but it's pretty easy to do. We need to start with our wool again. And in this case we are going to lay out a line of wool that's going to become our felted rope. We are going to felt the middle of it and leave the ends fluffy and unfelted so that they can stick to our soap. I'm just going to put a little handle on here that will be a little loop, like could be used to hang your soap on a hook in your shower. And just like when we did our felted soap, we need to lay our wool in different directions in order to allow it to make a solid fabric. So I'm pulling my tufts off, using the palm of my hand and the ends of my fingers. And that gives me a nice thin, even shingle of wool so that I can arrange them all overlapping on my piece. So I'm just going to do this one all blue. And then I'm going to do one. So I'm doing three layers. I did one layer one way, another layer another way, and I'm going to do a third layer sort of randomly arranged to give me enough to form my rope. So it's not very thick, but what I'm going to do is roll this up into a little jelly roll of wool. And then I'm going to add hot, soapy water just to the middle section to make my felted rope. And that will be my next step.

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