| Felt a home business with alpaca fleece. You don't | | | | - Felt lightweight scarves. Make them to match your |
| have to own an alpaca to make money in this growing | | | | hats and sell them as a set. |
| industry. Felting is an inexpensive way to start a home | | | | - Make felt storyboards. Come up with a unique |
| business. | | | | childrens story and make a felt board with characters |
| Felting is easy and quick to learn. Take some raw | | | | to tell the story. Or sell a storyboard kit so moms and |
| fleece, warm water, and soap, add alittle pressure and | | | | children can make their own stories come to life. |
| there you go, you have felt. Once you learn the | | | | - Make hair accessories. Get supplies to make |
| feltingtechnique, you will only be limited by your | | | | barretts' from a craft store, make felt shapes and glue |
| imagination. | | | | to the barretts' for little girls. For teenagers, make hair |
| Why alpaca instead of sheeps' wool? A finer fleece | | | | scrunchies from felt. The wilder, the better. |
| such as alpacamakes clothing items nicer to wear. It's | | | | - Felt toys. You can felt flat pieces and cut out |
| soft to touch and doesn't havethe "prickle factor" like | | | | patterns that you sew together to make teddy bears, |
| when sheeps' wool contacts your skin and makesyou | | | | etc. Stuff the toys with lesser quality alpaca fleece for |
| itch. Childrens sensitive skin will be less likely to get a | | | | the extra soft and cuddly factor. |
| rash with finerfleece. Felting is faster, too. It's, also, | | | | You might gear your business towards items for |
| lighter in weight and warmer. | | | | children. People love topurchase things for their kids. |
| To felt a home business, try these six ideas using | | | | Search the internet or ebay to find raw alpaca fleece |
| alpaca fleece: | | | | to purchase. Bagsof raw fleece are cheaper to buy |
| - Felt seamless slippers and/or baby booties. There | | | | than carded batts, but the fleece mustbe carded |
| are lots of general books available that will teach you | | | | before felting most projects. You can buy hand |
| how to make a template for seamless slippers. Add | | | | carders and card the fleeceyourself. Carding is not |
| unique decorations to complete the slipper. Baby | | | | difficult. |
| booties can be made the same way. | | | | Once your felt items are ready for sale, put them on |
| - Felt hats. You can purchase hat shapers to mold the | | | | ebay or find localoutlets to sell them. Craft shows are |
| felt. Hat shapers come in all different styles. Fedoras, | | | | another good place to sell uniqueitems. |
| cowboy hats, and ball caps can all be made using hat | | | | Research, find a need, fill that need, and then enjoy |
| shapers. You can find hat shapers by searching the | | | | felting your way to asuccessful home business with |
| internet. Or you can flat felt pieces, cut out patterns, | | | | alpaca fleece. Good luck! |
| and sew winter hats together. | | | | |