When I tell people that I needle felt, more often than not I have to explain what that is. At shows, a lot of folks walk into my booth and assume that I'm using boiled wool or I have knitted then felted (by way of washing and drying) my products. I always keep some unfinished products and supplies on hand so that I can demonstrate the process: "See, I gather the wool into the general shape, then I poke it with these special, barbed needles, and the fibers tangle together. The more I poke, the more I can shape and sculpt the wool..." Once they see how things are made, then it seems as though they have a better appreciation of the total work and time that goes into each piece. Needle felted pieces are not something that can be mass produced--at least very well. I'm just a one gal show over here (plus the work my husband puts in). As much as I wish I could make more things, my time is finite, which means my productivity is finite too. Sometimes I'm envious of graphic designers and artists who can make prints--they can produce so much product. They can send their work to shops across the states--out of the states even. I struggle to renew local consignment orders. Thank goodness the shop owners are patient. But I digress. Below is the step-by-step process with short descriptions of how I made the wool painting from week 3 of 52 Weeks of Felt Paintings. Enjoy! 1. Blank needle felted canvas on my felting foam with my 6-needle tool. 2. The four shades of blue I used for the sky. 3. The entire background was covered in one blue. 4. Other blues laid out on the canvas to determine how I wanted the gradient. 5. All the blues are felted down. 6. Playing with composition with shades of pink and purple for the balloons. 7. Started with the the balloons in the back.... 8. And worked my way toward the front of the bunch. 9. All balloons are felted in place. 10. Placing lighter colored felt for balloon highlights. 11. Balloon highlights are felted in. 12. I also added some white into the highlights. Determining string placement. 13. "Stretching" the wool into long pieces for the strings. 14. All the strings are in place. 15. Adding flesh colored wool for the hand and arm holding the balloons. 16. Adding small balloon details. 17. Small detail work on the hand. 18. The edges of the painting are still pretty messy... 19. ...so I cleaned them up with my felting needles. 20. Edges smoothed. (Side shot to show dimension.) 21. Finished! I didn't time myself while making this. It's not terribly detailed, so I guess it took a total of 1.5 hours (give or take a bit) not including all the picture taking. More detailed pieces take up to 3 or 4 hours. It truly is a lot of layering, and it's easier to build up the felt rather than take it away. Does anything about this process surprise you?

A collection of 32 felt projects for kids of all ages and abilities, including no sew ideas for toddlers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more!

Love making cute woodland creatures? We've got a new one for you! Follow our simple tutorial to make your own needle felted fox.

This is a listing for one magnet. Thanks! 🍊 Fridge magnets are fun way to decorate your kitchen. I personally love soft and light magnets as they are cuter and harder to break. 🍋 Fruits like orange and lemon would be a perfect choice for the fridge door. Just yummy to look at and make your little ones want to eat more "real fruits". 🍓 These fridge magnets are needle felted by hand made with 100% premium wool. Each about 2". Individually sold. 💌 Disclaimer: This product is not intended for children under 3 years old.

I used to look at my little bits of this and that–fancy fibers, silk and wool roving, hand-dyed gauze, threads, and vintage lace–and wonder what I could do with them. They were too good to

I love working with craft felt so I thought I'd share a lot of advice, tips and information on this brilliant and versatile material. ...

I don’t know about you, but I find that having the perfect tool for the task makes anything easier and more enjoyable. My favorite needle felting tools.

Have you been curious about needle felting? We've rounded up a collection of the cutest kits around! Perfect for beginners to more experienced felters alike!

I really enjoy making felted soap and needle felting a variety of designs on them. These floral landscape soaps have been extremely popul...

You can’t beat a live tutorial from Living Felt! Marie Spaulding always has the best projects, lots of tips and tricks and all the close ups you can want! With videos you can stop an…

I LOVE working with felt! The edges don't fray, it's delightfully warm, it takes embroidery beautifully, and it comes in the most luscious colors. But it's different than regular fabric. These tips will make it super easy to work with. Why wool felt? It's way more durable that the cheap acrylic stuff you can buy

Let me share how I made these cute little flowers. Anyone that has tried needle felting will tell you what a hugely satisfying craft it is. There's something strangely therapeutic about stabbing a big ball of fluff and watching it turn into a solid piece of sculpture. It's the perfect craft for letting off steam. My first attempt at needle felting resulted in these funny looking chaps. They were excellent fun to make and really, you can't go wrong when you're putting silly faces on pumpkins... One of the easiest techniques for creating needle felted shapes is using the cookie-cutter method. Basically, you just stuff a cutter shape with loose roving, tops, or carded wool and then keep prodding and poking it with a felting needle until all the fibres felt and mesh together into a solid shape. I'd still class myself as a novice needle felter, but you get pretty passable results even as a beginner. These flowers are the perfect starter project if you want to try out needle felting for the first time, as they combine both cookie-cutter needle felting and some simple sculptural needling techniques. Needle felting is pretty inexpensive to get started, and the supplies are becoming easier to find. Materials needed Wool tops, roving, sliver or shredded pure wool yarn. I buy mine from World of Wool in the UK. Felting needles. A lot of needle felters use thicker felting needles to begin with and then gradually reduce the width of the needles so that the holes become less prominent as the piece is finished. I tend to use just a size 38 triangular needle, but I use 4 or 5 at a time to start with. I then reduce it down so that I'm doing the final sculpting with just 1 needle. Thick foam or felting brush to felt on. I use an old memory foam pillow, (hence the unattractive towelling cover). Carders or wool combs are optional, but they do help with blending colours and seperating the fibres before you begin felting. Cutter shape. I use this sugar flower cutter as it's sturdy and there's a ridge of plastic to hold onto How to needle felt cookie cutter flowers Firstly you need to prepare your fibres for felting. I have a stash of dyed merino tops as I do quite a lot of spinning, however the fibres are a little too neatly lined up for felting, so I need to tease them and mix them up a bit. I hand card the fibres, but just separating the fibres with your hands will help in the felting process. I blended 2 colours together to get a more natural look. I've used a sugar flower cutter as opposed to a cookie-cutter as it's just a bit more comfortable to hold and the extra circle around the base of the cutter keeps your fingers a little further away from the felting needles - watch out, those needles are sharp! Stuff your combed fibres into the cutter, making sure that they all pass across the centre, so that all the petals are firmly attached. With practice it's possible to get a finished flower that has lighter outer petals and a darker centre (or vice versa). Now take your felting needles and just keep prodding inside the cutter until all the fibres have reduced down and are just filling the bottom of the cutter. Here's a short animated gif showing my needle felting technique. The felting needle has little tiny barbs on the edges causing the fibres to become tangled and compacted with each insertion. The more you poke and prod, the denser your wool will become and the more it will shrink or felt. I found that turning my flower and repeating the felting process when it appeared to be quite compacted at the base of the cutter helped to create a nice dense flower. Here it shows the flower becoming more and more felted with each turning. By the end of the 4th stabbing it was time to move onto the next stage. This process combines 3 steps in 1 - adding additional colour to the petals, creating a flower centre and further felting of the petals. I use just a single needle for the remainder of the flower. Pull out a thin wisp of fibres in a contrasting colour and lay it over one of the petals. I tend to place it so that one end is positioned just past the length of the petal I want to work on. Now insert the needle repeatedly at the base of the petal and gradually work your way up the petal until there is no more contrasting fibre left to secure into the petal. Secure the tail end of the contrasting fibre by needling it into the flower centre. Try to work it into a dense circle. To speed up the process of bringing the long, loose tail together I use a combination of gently swirling it around the needle end and prodding the loose fibres into a circle shape. The flower centre will become bigger, denser and higher as each petal is worked. Work your way around each petal, adding a thin layer of colour and needling the remainder into the centre. Keep working on the centre until it becomes quite dense with very few fibres sticking out. Once the centre has come together, the flower just needs a little neatening around the edges to get rid of its slight fuzziness. I tend to do this by lifting the loose fibres with the end of my needle and almost 'folding' the stray fibres in. Needle felting is not an exact science and everyone's style is different. Some people leave their pieces quite loose, while others keep working until it is very dense and solid. I tend to keep poking and prodding until it feels like a fairly durable piece, with very few fibres sticking out, but it's still fairly soft and squashy. I added this one to a headband for my daughter and I'm thinking of stringing a rainbow of pastel flowers into a garland to decorate her bedroom. If you enjoyed this post, you may also enjoy my post about making a Remembrance Day poppy. or my post on how to make a slightly more advanced layered flower using the same sugar flower cutter. ---------- Please be sweet and share the love. Leave a comment, subscribe to my YouTube channel, like my Facebook page for regular updates or follow me on Pinterest, Bloglovin' or Instagram

At our small shop in Loomis, Northern California, we offer engaging classes for crafters of all skill levels. We specialize in the art of felting, where we create our own textiles from wool fiber without sewing, knitting, or crocheting. Visit us at www.thetinthimble.com, and learn about our classes in nuno, wet, and needle felting, as well as spinning, sewing, and dyeing with indigo, botanicals, and more.

As a big Thank You for all the support I’ve had since I started felting and blogging, I’m giving away a copy of my new PDF e-book called Beyond Nuno. It’s all about using differen…

This wonderful piece entitled “Rebirth” by Kathleen Dodge DeHaven is artful, adventurous, inviting of contemplation, and somehow…soothing. “I’ve chosen MC-1 Merino-Cross Fas…

Where does the beauty come from? It isn't necessary to travel around the world in its most quiet places to experience it. Beauty is always near us — you just need to want to explore it. And you can of course create it with your own hands and imagination: just a couple of movements with a **knitting needle** and a ball of thread suddenly turns into something remarkable, something that exists nowhere else in the world. And once you've created it, it will remain a unique and inexhaustible source of further inspiration. Also, it will warm your heart and your spirit every time you see it, as the scarves that our moms and grand-moms knitted in good old days.

Felt dogs hand-made by Domenica More Gordon (the UK). http://domenicamoregordon.com

The Rabbitat film has been viewed over 4000 times (update: 18,000 in November 2015) since it was posted on Vimeo, 9 months ago! To celebrate, I’ve put together a selection of process photos, …

Simple, easy to follow needle felting projects for complete beginners

These easy, fun needle felting kits come to us from Marty and MaryAnn on their sheep farm up in Sumner. Each kit includes: A hand-drawn pattern on a pure wool felt five inches square Thorough instructions and More than enough hand dyed unspun wool from their own sheep to complete the project. Leftover wool can be used for mending sweaters or to apply a design on a felted item (vest, hat, mittens or hand bag). The mermaid and unicorn kits include fiber for three-dimensional hair accents! Sold separately: basic needle felting tools. A finished Thyme Tile will make a lovely pocket for a knitted bag, wall hanging to frame, a coaster/mug rug, and more.

Sue Spargo, a contemporary folk artist, is my quilting idol. She has uniquely joined quilted fabrics with wool and other cloth, appliqué, embroidery, and embellishments, with machine and handwork, to create the most stunning designs.

Dit is een waldorf geïnspireerd stuk gemaakt van wol door de naaldvilttechniek. Het is gemaakt om een vredig en harmonieus beeld te bieden dat communiceert met de ziel door middel van zijn kleuren, texturen, vormen en energie. Afmetingen: 25in hoogte, 9in breedte ongeveer. Pop: 7in VERZENDING: Aangezien shop-home zich in Montréal bevindt, neemt u contact op met de winkeleigenaar voor een nauwkeurigere levertijd en verzendkosten. Let op: het is geen speelgoed.

Perfect for bookish plays, this Felt Grey Sheep encourages your child to explore concepts like colours, animals, and imaginative storytelling as they interact with their fluffy companion. With its fluffy felt material, this toy grey sheep is sure to be a beloved companion in imaginative adventures. Product Details Ethically hand-felted from 100% New Zealand wool - Coloured with azo-free dye, safe for children and pets - Height: 7cm - Length: 8cm - Weight: 30g Visit us at TaraTreasures.com to see more products. Instagram and Facebook: @taratreasures

Needle felting with a wire armature can be a little daunting, especially if you are new to needle felting. But it’s easy and really useful for when something needs stability or to add detail or dimension.

Here is a gorgeous garland with 14 needle felted wool hearts in rainbow color..... perfect for Party, Wedding, Spring or Easter decorating. It has been lovingly made with wonderfully needle felt wool hearts. All elements are handmade by me and my daugther in needle felting technique. Each heart measures approximately 2X2" (5 cm) and total string length is approximately 8 feet (2.20 meters) long. So you can make the gaps smaller or bigger in between each heart. The string can be made longer or shortened on request. IMPORTANT: If you want more than 1 Felt Heart Garland, please choose from the menu on the right side of the screen. Here you can see other Valentines garlands, animals, sculptures and Home Decor: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NedaArt?ref=hdr_shop_menu§ion_id=20917453 Please click here to choose a different garland: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NedaArt?section_id=14863155&ref=shopsection_leftnav_5 I can match just about any color custom orders, so if you would prefer this garland in a different color, please convo me. Thanks for visiting my shop.

I love arts and crafts, I used to paint, making stained glass, cross stitch, fresh and dried flowers arrangement and sewing. Needle felting is my recent passion, because I can create something magical from the fantasy world, and all those beautiful things out of imagination. They can be unreal or they may just look like the real thing.

Dit is een Waldorf-geïnspireerd stuk gemaakt van wol volgens de naaldvilttechniek. Het is gemaakt om een vredig en harmonieus beeld te bieden dat met de ziel communiceert door middel van kleuren, texturen, vormen en energie. Afmetingen: 6,5 hoog De prijs is slechts voor één pop. De boom is niet inbegrepen. VERZENDING: Aangezien shop-home zich in Montréal bevindt, kunt u contact opnemen met de winkeleigenaar voor nauwkeurigere levertijden en verzendkosten. Let op: het is geen speelgoed.

This handmade needle felted Woolbuddy is made with 100% natural wool. Recommend for ages 3 and up. WoolBuddy is a collection of unique characters who come to life through the art of needle felting. The WoolBuddy collection consists of colorful animals, vibrant sea creatures, friendly and lovable monsters, and much more. Highly sought after by fellow artists and art enthusiasts as well as adults and children alike. Each Woolbuddy is unique! Size 2-3" Dry clean only.

Urocza piesełka o imieniu Beza ;) <3

This is a Waldorf inspired piece made of wool by the needle-felting technique. It's been created to provide a peaceful and harmonious image that communicates with the soul through its colors, textures, forms and energy. Dimensions: 6 in length, 7 height Doll: 3.5in Boy SHIPPING: Since shop-home is located in Montréal, contact the shop owner for more accurate delivery-time and shipping-costs. Note: it is not a toy.

Hey guys! I'm updating this post with a link to another needle felting DIY I just completed...here AND one here...just can't stop felting! I don't normally stand around with my arms crossed. Unless I'm cold. Or I'm going head-to-head with a fourth grader and their attitude. In which case, one of my eyebrows are raised and my lips are pursed. Neither scenario is the case in this photo. I'm actually trying to show off my felt-y floral elbows. Just to clarify: Anthro-Style is not at all similar to Gangnam Style. Least you be confused. Anthro-Style is a way around paying through the nose for some adorable skirt/dress/sweater that you just know you could make. You can see my attempts here and here. Gangnam Style is a way of dancing if you want to, well, have a female look at you as if you just ate your socks. You can see my attempts here and here (ha! made you look!). I caught a bad case of Anthro-Style when I was at said store with a buddy. I spotted this sweet felted cardigan and was drawn to it's delicate colors and motif. However, the $138 price tag was just a pinch off-putting (ahem!). It was then I remembered the huge mound of roving I'd acquired during one of my hobby hoarding episodes and decided to attempt my own felted floral cardi. Now when I say hobby hoarder, I mean that I've tried my hand at just about every craft under the sun. I collect hobbies like some people do baseball cards and coins. And I've got the garage full of potter's wheels, mosaic tiles, looms and jewelry making supplies to prove it. Occasionally I think to myself, "I should really get rid of all that macrame" and then I dream up something to do with it. For example. As I've yet to figure out how to craft a non-itchy macrame dress. But I will. Someday-ish. My version of the Anthro sweater. Granted, it doesn't look a thing like the original and I'm okay with that. Mine's the cheery-happy-kiddie version to their sophisicated-grown-up-lady original. But my cashmere sweater cost $3.99 at the thrift store not $138. So you can add penny-pincher to my cheery-happy-kiddie version as well, you sophisticated-grown-up-broke-lady. Wait, what? You too wanna make a Felt-y Floral Anthro-Style Sweater? Duuuude, it is so easy. But you will need the following: A Sweater. I was under the misconception that the sweater must be 100% wool. Oh no. You can needle felt on any fabric. I'd had this thrifted cashmere sweater in my give-to-Goodwill pile because it was a little holey. Turns out you can felt-patch those holes. Wool Roving. I purchased mine at a workshop I attended a couple of years ago. I've made felted soaps and ornaments with it as well as this sweater. So, a little goes a long way. I wouldn't buy it at your local craft store because it will be a rip off. I'd look into some online vendors. Needle Felting Tool. This I did pick up at the craft store. I bought one by the company Clover with three needles in it. They are sharp as a mother so be careful as you stab away on your sweater. A Sponge or Bristle Brush Block. Again, I snagged mine at the local craft joint. This is the cushion that you use under the punching of the needle. Having never needle felted before, I watched a couple videos on youtube. I have found that when learning a new craft, the more tutorials, the better. Here's my feeble attempt: Pulling the roving. When you get ready to needle felt, pull apart the roving carefully, as if you are gently pulling off a piece of cotton candy. Done correctly, it should look like the photo above. 2. Shaping the roving. I was creating circles in the above photo, so I gently rolled the roving into a ball and held it in place with my finger. Place your sweater on top of your sponge or bristle brush punching pad. 3. Punching the Roving. Seriously, watch your fingers! Getting stabbed is not a pleasant experience as those needles are not only sharp but slightly serrated. As you needle punch, your roving will shrink in size as half of it will go through the other side of your sweater. You can shape the roving by angling your punching tool. 4. Making Diana Ross Hair. Because that's what you wanted on your sweater, right? To add a circle around your dot, pull roving as in step one, lay onto sweater and start punching. 5. Punching, Punching, Punching. It's like Fight Club but without Brad Pitt. Sorry. 6. Shaping the Roving. I love that you can shape the direction of the roving just by angling the punching tool and moving the roving. Here I am completing my circle by overlapping the roving. This photo and the one below should give you an idea how much the roving shrinks as you punch it. I formed the roving into a leaf shape... ...and used my needle to do the rest of the shaping. I added a very thin strip of dark green for the vein in the leaf. Again, for those small details, watch those digits! Here's a view of the back of my sweater. I flipped over the Anthro sweater to see if theirs was as fuzzy and it wasn't. I'm not sure if that means they trimmed the back or if they just didn't punch as hard as me. And here's a view of my dining room table. Which has now become Needle Felting Central. Sorry, hubs. Again, I blame the ridonkulousness of this pose on my showing off my felt-y elbows. sweater: cashmere with Target tags, thrifted; wood paneled skirt: old, Target; tights: geez, Target!; boots: Frye found second hand I gotta tell you, this needle felting business is addictive. I started on this one morning and didn't stop until well after noon. I was so excited when I was finished, I showed it off to hubs and the following transaction went down (you know, I just can't have a single post without a lil bit of dialog): Me (complete with bedhead and pyjamas at 3pm): Look! I finished my sweater! (realizing I'm still with bedhead and pyjamas) And I'm still in my pj's! And it's after 3! Hubs: Yep. Just what I'd always hoped married life would be like. Yeah, well, as I always like to tell him, you're stuck with me now, mister! I do hope this here post has inspired you to do some punching of your own. Of the needle felting variety, that is. Happy Punching!

Join Sharon and Hannah as The Tin Thimble talks tips and tricks for nuno felting with cotton cheesecloth and achieving a more casual look.

This is a Waldorf inspired doll. Dimensions: 7 in height SHIPPING: Since shop-home is located in Montréal, contact the shop owner for local and east-coast deliveries or more accurate shipping cost.

Autumn, Colorful, unique, stylish, inevitably replaces the summer and lures us into the fest of colors... The doll is handmade by the needle felt soft sculpture technique. I created this little unique wool sculpture out of natural, organic plant-dyed sheep wool, silk. She features bendable arms, so she may be positioned to follow your imagination. The doll is just 5" high. Beautiful for home decoration, babies room, nature table, newborn baby mother's gift, Telling story puppet and more. This listing for one doll and her pumpkin. Your beautiful doll and her pumpkin will be tenderly wrapped and shipped. Thank you for choosing us to brighten up your day. רכישה בישראל רכישה בישראל יכולה להתבצע ישירות דרכי במזומן, בשיק, או בהעברה לחשבוני לחישוב מחיר המוצר יש להכפיל את המחיר הנקוב בדולרים בשער הדולר היציג ביום התשלום המוצרים יישלחו בדואר רשום, לכל שאלה ניתן לפנות אלי למייל המצורף או לטלפון0547397020 או לשלוח מייל dasha.lvovsky[!at] gmail.com