Process

I started trying to create the felt swatch with only needle felting but that wasn't creating a dense enough structure so I incorporated water felting. I made a tub from the bottom of a gallon jug, boiled water and mixed it with some soap and massaged the felt until it became very dense, this worked well. I applied the iron on patch material to stiffen the felt for the laser cutter and make it into a patch. I had limited material so I did a lot of small tests with the laser cutter to make sure the cutting process would be successful. I first had to deal with 2 malfunctioning laser cutters (of course) but finally the third seemed promising with a speed of 5 and power of 25. But I guess due to some unseen issue with my .DXF file the laser cutter decided to go over each cut twice and this totally burned up my patch.