Felting on your Handi Quilter longarm machine with the Handi Felting Foot

The Handi Felting foot was new in 2020 and can be added to any Handi Quilter machine (except for the Infinity).

The felting foot comes with 10 of each of the size 36, 38 and 40 felting needles. The 36 are the largest size. You can use up to 5 needles in the attachment at a time depending on what you're felting and how dense the felting will be. The needles are triangular shape and have barbs which grab the fibres and take them through to the back of the work. When you turn it over you can see this!

This is a project used to demonstrate how to use the foot. It uses pre-made hand-dyed wool felts of varying thicknesses. The background is also wool felt.

Underneath the wool background is a wadding (like armo fleece or more stable wadding you might use for a wall hanging) plus Sulky Sticky.

First I laid out all the pieces. I then temporarily held them in place by felting by hand enough to stop the pieces moving. I used a Clover felting tool to do this.

You have other options to hold the pieces in place such as using 505 spray, a glue stick, steam a seam 2, etc. We recommend that you don't spray 505 anywhere near your longarm. Spray it into a box so that any excess spray goes inside the box or spray outside.

It's just a play piece to understand the technique but I'm going to frame it with a border to make it a standard picture frame size and pop it in a frame ready for gifting to an unsuspecting relative.

Remove the bobbincase when you're felting. You get lots of fluff which you can hoover out or use a brush (it's quite satisfying actually!). I would do this throughout the process and DEFINITELY before you put the bobbincase back in!

Have fun with felting - it can become quite addictive!