Felt samples | college work

Last week I did two felt samples. This is what the outcomes were:

This was the first sample I did which, to be honest, looking back on it, I really don't like the way I did it.

I started out by getting out the bamboo matts, the bubble wrap, three different pieces of wool, spray bottles filled with liquid soap, pieces of material to trap in between the wool.
I started off by separating the pieces of wool to make it much thinner.  
I put my first piece of wool down onto the bubble wrap then lay the material onto the wool and then added my next two wools down nicely on top.
I then sprayed the materials with the liquid soaps until it was completely covered and very wet. I placed the other piece of bubble wrap over it to cover the materials completely and started massaging it for about 10 minutes.
I then took the wool out of the bubble wrap, scrunched it up into a ball and threw it down onto the table, relatively hard, for a few minutes.
I then flattened the material out and placed it back between the bubble wrap pieces. I carried on massaging it for another 10 minutes then removed from the bubble wrap and left it to dry.

I didn't like the way this sample came out because it was too thick. I didn't separate the wool thin enough at the start of this process therefore it came out extremely thick, because of this it meant you couldn't see the pieces of material in-between very well.

This was my second sample which I was much happier with.
I used exactly the same method as I did for the previous felt sample.
This time I remembered to spread the wool extremely thin which made the felt much better (i.e. thinner) which means you can see the materials that are trapped much easier than in the first sample.
I used some more and different materials for this sample and thought they worked really well!

This is definitely a method I would use in future projects. I am considering using it in the accessory project. I may use the washaway technique and have the felt behind the wasahaway.