Made in three different shades of periwinkle, our felt bearded iris flowers feature ruffled and curved petals for a more realistic look.

Wool Felt - THIS is the Good Stuff! Made from 100% Merino Wool Fiber Eighteen sheet set These wool felt sheets are approximately 1mm thick. 8 x 12 Inch Sheets (20 x 30cm) This signature assortment includes a pretty palette the following colors: Aquamarine, Blue, Bottle Green, Butter Yellow, Carnation Pink, Cerise, Deep Pink, Ecru, Forest Green, Light Blue, Light Green, Light Peach, Light Pink, Light Yellow, Melon, Purple, Rose Pink and Thistle. Choose 'Wool Felt Only' for the set of 18 sheets shown in the photos. Choose 'Wool Felt + Floss' for the set of 18 sheets AND a set of 18 skeins of DMC Embroidery Floss in matching colors. Specifically created for sewing and handwork. High quality, toxin free, environmentally friendly wool felt. From a sustainable, renewable, ethical resource. This wool felt meets/exceeds all safety standards for children's items. No harsh chemicals or toxins, naturally flame-resistant. Cuts cleanly. Holds stitches beautifully. Colorfast. Fade resistant. Pill resistant. *THIS* is the good stuff! Pure, 100% merino wool felt specifically created for sewing and hand-crafting. Don't confuse this pure fabulous felt with a wool-blend felt. There's a whole world of difference between the two. The term 'wool felt' is often used loosely. Some 'wool felts' contain as little as 10% wool - the remaining fiber being acrylic, rayon or viscose. If you're looking for wool felt, you've come to the right place. This is pure, 100% wool felt. When putting your time and talent into a project, I recommend using the finest materials available otherwise the effort put into the handmade item is lost. The entire experience of crafting - from the 'doing' to the 'ooooooh!-ing' - is better with quality materials.

INSIDE: The best tips for sewing felt for beginners, from what needle for sewing felt, what thread, to how to cut felt and how to wash felt. For a while, you've been planning to start a new sewing project using felt. You've been gathering materials, colorful felt sheets and matching thread. You've gathered enough inspiration,

Ukrainian crafter Hanna Dovhan (previously) continues to produce squeal-inducing felt sculptures of foodie friends like this new egg design as well as pairs of cherries, bananas, and pears. She shares new designs on her Tumblr and occasionally sells new designs on Etsy. More

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

Handmade Felt Breakfast Sunnyside up Eggs and/or Bacon. You can choose between the two eggs, two bacon strips, or receive both eggs and bacon. Hope you enjoy this Handmade product I created for you!

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I've been in love with using these felt rainbows in our garlands for awhile now and am excited to offer them individually now too! They're the perfect thing to scatter around your dining room table centerpiece or to fill in a clear jar sitting on your mantle. Each rainbow measures approximately 3" wide x 2.5" tall. Our felt pieces are handmade of 100% wool by Nepalese craftswomen. Pieces can vary slightly in diameter or in color as each item is handmade and unique. These shapes are non-synthetic, eco-friendly, biodegradable and safe for children and pets. Please remember that colors may vary due to monitor settings. Your rainbow will be packaged in a poly mailer for shipping and is mailed via USPS First Class. If you would like your order shipped as a gift to a different address, we're happy to do that ... just list the address in the note to seller. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Stiffening felt is a simple and satisfying DIY project with dramatic results! In this article, I demonstrate how to stiffen felt using supplies you probably already have in your kitchen! You can stiffen felt just a little (to add just a little more body) or a lot (to make it stiff enough to take on

Have you ever stunned when you saw those cute, realistic creations which are made of wool or pinned a lot of needle felted crafts in your Pinterest's boards? Well, I have. They bring lots of fun and inspiration to me. if you are as same as I do, pls follow our new program

Yay… it's party time. I look forward to this all week long. You people are amazing and I feel honored that you take the time to link up your pretty projects here. Here are my features for this week… CUTENESS! Easy Felt iPhone Case by Do Small Things with Love WOWZAS! Kitchen Remodel by A […]

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?

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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!

—— SEWING PATTERN PDF TUTORIAL TO MAKE A FELT DRAGON —— This is a downloadable PDF sewing pattern to make a beautiful hand sewn felt animal toy. These toys are hand drawn and designed by myself. These felt toys make great gifts or toys for your favourite little ones to play with. They are also great display items for seasonal tables or as ornamental pieces. Some patterns are suitable for beginner sewers and some are more difficult and require a little bit of sewing experience. These patterns are designed to be sewn by hand and not machine. You can however alter the pattern by enlarging it and adding a 1-2cm seam allowance should you wish to adapt it for sewing by machine. If you have any questions or difficulty you’re more than welcome to email me for help. I also have an online craft group you can join if you need help with any of the stitches, see below for the link to join. WHAT’S INCLUDED? Includes 1x Pattern PDF for each animal, can be downloaded once purchase is finalised. The pattern and instructions are written in English and include basic diagrams to help you visually understand some of the more tricky steps. Please note this is a digital product not a finished felt toy item. HOW TO DOWNLOAD? Once payment is completed you’ll be directed to a download option for your pattern. Also you can check your emails from Etsy with a link to download. FINISHED SIZE? Finished size is approx. 30cm long but you can easily make them smaller or larger using a photocopier to suit which size you would like. Keep in mind that the smaller you make it the more tricky it can be. PRINTING? These patterns are designed to be printed on size A4 paper at 100%. You can reduce or enlarge the % to suit your needs if you want it bigger or smaller. MATERIALS I RECCOMEND I always advise using 100% pure wool felt to make these toys because of its superior quality and durability. For filling I use merino wool fleece and not poly fill. MATERIALS NEEDED ————————————————————————— 45 x 45cm 100% Wool Felt For Body/wings 11x11cm Felt (for neck spines) Cotton embroidery thread grey & body colour. 5x Pipe cleaners (about 30cm long) 80g Merino Fleece Stuffing 2x *Fimo Dragon Horns 1x *Pack White Glitter Fimo (Polymer clay) if making your own horns TOOLS NEEDED ———————————————— Sharp Embroidery Needle Stuffing Stick Or Wooden Skewer Paper Scissors, Sharp Craft Scissors Pins Fabric Marker FOR MORE INFO OR TO SHOP ON MY NEW WEBSITE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.loridesignsonline.com ONLINE CRAFT GROUP —> www.facebook.com/groups/loridesignscraftgroup FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM: @loridesignsandcraft ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No portion of this pattern may be photocopied or reproduced by any means without the express written consent of Brooke Pyke, Lori Designs. Your purchase of this pattern or tutorial is a license for personal use. Copyright to all pattern pieces, photos, and instructional material remains with Lori Designs. Lori Designs cannot be held responsible for human errors or individual workmanship. All patterns and tutorials are protected herein by copyright and may not be produced for any commercial resale. Items made with Lori Designs patterns and tutorials may not be produced sold without permission. REFUND POLICY: No refunds accepted on PDF patterns due to mistaken orders or change of mind. Please read all descriptions carefully before buying.

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Making felt flowers is one thing. Making felt flowers look realistic is another thing entirely! We are so fortunate to have Maker Team member Astrid of @treehousefeltflowers at the ready with her many tips and tricks for making gorgeous, realistic felt flowers. You can find several of her tutorials on our blog. Now Astrid is going in depth with a two part series about adding color and dimension to your felt blooms and we are bursting with excitement! “How do I make felt flowers look less two-dimensional? How do I make felt flowers look more realistic?” These are two questions I often see on online felting forums. I think the answers to these questions lie in adding color and dimension to the felt. There are a number of ways to add color to felt. If you try using one or more of the techniques in this tutorial, you will see your felt flowers start to come to life! Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced Time: Varies Additional Supplies: Alcohol MarkersAcrylic PaintWatercolor PaintPaint Brushes, smallEye Make-upPaper Towel Color Placement Where do you place the color on the flower? To start, look at examples of real flowers. At first glance this Day Lily from my garden appears simply yellow, but upon closer inspection, you see subtle color differences and shading that give the flower depth. The petals are a beautiful soft yellow - perhaps Benzie wool blend felt color Butter or Lemonade. I often find myself guessing comparable felt colors to flowers in nature. Look closer at the tips of the three largest petals. They have a soft blush of pink along the ruffled edges. Now follow one petal from the tip to the center. Notice how the yellow intensifies as you get closer to the center, where the darker yellow starts to turn subtly green. Below are three felt versions of the Day Lily. All 18 pieces of felt used to make these three flowers are the same size and shape. The flower on the left has no added color or dimension. The center flower looks a bit better and has some coloring. The flower on the right is a combination of adding color and dimension. Let’s look at some methods to color felt. All methods are done on individual petals before gluing the flowers together. Be sure to practice on a scrap of felt before trying any coloring method on your petals. Finding the right look takes some experimentation and practice, so have fun with it! Color Techniques Pastels - One of the most common methods to add color to felt is to use pastels. Pastels are made by mixing dry pigment with a binder and some filler to form a thick paste, which is pressed into sticks and dried. Pan pastels are a form of soft pastels, but instead of being molded into sticks, they are set into pans or jars. Both forms of pastels have a tendency to rub off. To be sure your color stays on the felt, lightly spray the petals with an aerosol fixative or use hairspray. NOTE: When spraying fixative, work in a well-ventilated area. Stick pastels are applied directly to the felt. Be gentle because they are very chalky and a little goes a long way. Place a piece of paper towel down on your work surface before starting. Use a second piece of paper towel to blot excess pastel from the felt. For pan pastels, a blending sponge can be used to dip into the pan then dabbed gently on the felt. For more examples of using pastels on felt flowers, see my tutorials for Coneflowers, Protea and California Poppies. Eye Make-up - When adding light colors to dark felt, you need a very concentrated pigment. Eye make-up works well on darker colored felts! When making a Columbia Lily, I add yellow color to red felt to achieve the true look of the petals. The yellow pastel was not intense enough but a fellow felt flower maker in the Netherlands tipped me off to using eye make-up! Use the same method of application as pan pastels. If you look closely at the Columbia Lily (right), you will notice small dots on the yellow portion of the petals. Most lilies have these spots. I used a fine tip marker to make them. There are several types of markers you can use to add shading and detail. Alcohol Markers - Alcohol markers are great for coloring felt if you need a bright, bold border. If you purchase alcohol markers with a fine tip, you can also use them to make lines on your petals. The Narcissus (left), has its’ center yellow petal circle rimmed with red using an alcohol marker. Even though the color dries very quickly, some bleeding of the color into the felt will happen. In this case it was the exact look I wanted. The center photo shows a detail from some of my Stargazer Lilies. The center dark rib down each petal and the dots were made with alcohol markers. Other Markers - I use Sharpies, fabric markers, and other permanent markers to draw accents on petals and add color to stamen stems. The flower stamens are from Benzie Design. Watercolors - If you want to achieve a soft color wash, watercolor may be applied to your felt in a diluted solution. The water can affect the texture of the felt, so experiment on some scraps of felt first. Acrylic Paint - I use acrylic paint for a few flowers. The white lines on the edges of the Forget-Me-Nots (left) are done with acrylic paint. The red line on the outside of the green succulent in the right photo is made with acrylic paint and a thin brush. The down side of acrylic paint is that it leaves the felt very stiff when dry. Airbrush - I have seen examples of using an airbrush painting tool to color petals. I think this looks really wonderful and hope to give it a try at some point. Embroidery - A time consuming but wonderful way to add color or accent to your flowers is embroidery. I love the way this looks! The photo on the left is of a blueberry branch. The contrasting embroidery not only gives a punch of color to the berries, it also adds texture. The center photo shows a succulent with an embroidered edge and stitching on its’ thick petals. The photo on the right shows embroidered details on an iris. Felt - The last method I want to discuss is using felt to achieve a color gradient or to make a bright color block effect. The flowers below each needed a bold color on top of or next to another dark or bold color. The other techniques we’ve discussed did not give the high-contrast outcome I desired, so I used additional felt. The flowers on the left and right have two layers of felt on each petal. I tried many techniques to allow me to have a bright white accent on the dark blue petals of the Texas Bluebonnet (right) but nothing worked as well as a second color layer of felt. For the flower in the center photo, two colors of felt were carefully glued edge to edge to achieve the desired effect. You can also use different shades of a single color to add depth. The bluebonnet is made from two Benzie Design wool blend felt colors: Blue and Oxford Blue. The Blue felt petals are above the darker Oxford Blue petals. The change in color is subtle, but really adds depth to the flower. Combining Methods - You will find the best way to get the most realistic felt flowers is to combine several of the methods mentioned. The photos below all show flowers with at least two techniques used on their petals. The photo on the left shows hydrangea blossom construction with a combination of gluing two colors of felt together and pastel coloring. The pansy in the center actually uses three techniques: acrylic paint, marker and pastels. The small lily in the right photo combines pastels and marker methods. In part two of this series, I will demonstrate how to add dimension to your flowers. Combined with the coloring techniques outlined above, adding wire, folding and pleats to your flower construction will enable you to create almost any felt flower in a realistic way! Thanks to Astrid for designing and writing this tutorial! You can follow her on Instagram @treehousefeltflowers or visit her website. Stay tuned for more tutorials from the Benzie Design Maker Team!

In this post I've collected the best felt craft ideas. Felt is aversatile material. These crafts will inspire you to usefelt for your projects.

This MASTER CLASS will give you detailed step by step instructions on how to create an ICE CREAM Truck Book! 🍡🍡🍡   Book size: 7,87"x 7,87" (20 cm x 20 cm)   A book from which the sweet tooth will be delighted!!! 💛 Create beautiful and mouth-watering desserts 🧡 We treat friends and relatives 💖 Playing cafe and shop 💛 Learn the score 🧡 Develop fine motor skills 💖 Learning colors 💛 We develop speech 🧡 Take it with you on the road or travel and have fun from the heart!!!   THIS PDF Pattern includes: ✅ Step by step photo lesson. ✅ List of materials and supplies. ✅ Full-size patterns just print. ✅ SVG files for plotter     Take a look at our other felt patterns FeltKids - InspireUplift Marketplace

Felt is a pretty general term and it easy for a new crafter to be confused! I will introduce three types of nonwoven felt and and explain their uses and where it can be purchased. Let me know if you have any other questions! Wool Felt: Often referred to 100% wool felt so not to get confused with its blended counterparts; only Merino wool fibers are felted together making the felt evenly dense, pliable and so very smooth. The colors are soft and beautiful. Certainly a premium felt -you'll want to use this for you most special of projects. Look for Benzie's Bellwether -you'll never go back! Craft Felt: On the other end of the spectrum is craft felt, readily available in any big box craft store for very low prices. This felt is usually made from recycled materials such as water bottles or synthetic materials such as acrylic. It can be unusually thin or extra lofty and colors are limited. The above photo shows craft store felt -you can see how thin it is compared to the wool felt that is placed on top. Fibers are usually sparse and is prone to stretching and pilling. Warning, do not iron this felt, it will melt! Best left for kiddie crafts. Wool Blend Felt: Most often referred to wool felt (but not to be confused with 100% wool felt), this felt is made up of wool and rayon fibers. Our favorite is Benzie's wool blend felt and it is made up of 20-35% merino wool with the remainder rayon (or viscose). Rayon and wool are both renewable sources! These two fibers work well together making a strong durable felt that is available in all colors of the rainbow. I consider wool blend felt to be the best of both worlds - it's durable and strong like pure wool felt but it's affordably priced too! You can share all you want with your kids while using the same felt for heirlooms for your grandchildren. Available at www.benziedesign.com. I would love to hear if you utilize the different kinds of felt and what projects you use them for! Read more on different types of wool crafts here! Happy Crafting!

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