These beginner-friendly needle felting kits are a great way to learn the art of needle felting. You'll love these cute felting projects.
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Needle felting artist Teresa Perleberg shares some of her needle felting secrets that she has learned over the years felting everyday.
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
British Textile Artist Maxine Smith shares three top tips she uses to create high quality, professional pieces of felted wool art
Graceful Giraffe | Needle Felting Kits | Beginner Friendly | English instructions | DIY Crafts Gift 1,This is not completed Product,just DIY material package. 2,Contain:Multi Wools+1 pc foam workplace+ 3 pcs metal needle+Eyes+hang wire+metal pin 3,Please check the drawing steps and Video handmade.
Tiny needle felted guinea pig. Made from wool. Its is 3,5 cm long and 2 cm tall. Made to order. Processing time - about 1 week. You will get a very similar looking guinea pig. I can also make you one using the photos of your pet to match the colors. Short haired guinea pigs only. Shipping will take about 10 days.
Duckling felting kit - perfect for beginners! A do it yourself needle felt starter kit for anyone new to wool felting. Craft your own fun duckling with this DIY needle felting kit! No previous wool felting, sewing, knitting, or crocheting experience/skills are necessary to create this sweet little duckling, making this needle felt kit ideal for crafting beginners. This delightful DIY craft kit allows you to make one cute duckling. Your finished duckling will measure approximately 2 inches tall, depending on how firmly it is felted, and the project will take around two - three hours to complete if you are a felting newbie. The wool for this adorable needle felted duckling is collected from the specialty breed sheep raised on our farm in North Dakota, and processed at our own mill, so you can be assured of the quality and integrity of our wool felt kits! All of our needle felting kits are packaged in resealable plastic bags making them the perfect gift for any crafter or fiber enthusiast! Why not create your own endearing duckling to add a touch of homemade charm to your home? Our beginner Duckling craft kit comes with - wool to make one duck glass eyes two felting needles felting cushion detailed instructions with photographs of each step by Fiber Artist Teresa Perleberg DOES NOT include needle and thread to sew on the eyes *Wagon not included OPTIONS: 1. Complete kit – This kit has everything listed above, and is everything you need to complete this kit. 2. No cushion and needles – I offer this option for those who would like to purchase more than one kit. You will only need one set of needles and one cushion for multiple felting projects. Please note that I remove the cushion and needles from a complete kit for this option. The packaging will stay the same and will state that the cushion and needles are included even though they have been removed. 3. Wool Felting Cushion (7" X 7")– Choose this option to switch out the foam cushion for the eco-friendly wool felting cushion designed right here at Shepherd Industries. The perfect option if you are planning on felting more than this project as it is better for the environment, better to work with than foam and will last a lifetime.
We love this creation by Dan — created from the Living Felt Fun Birds Needle Felting Kit. Once you learn basic techniques, let your imagination take over! “I created these 3D fe…
If you've been wanting to craft your own alpaca, you're in luck! Today we're showing you how to make your own needle felted alpaca in just 7 steps.
VIDEO TUTORIAL WRITTEN TUTORIAL See photographs below: 1 & 2: Start with a long length of wool and roll into a TIGHT rough oval/cylinder shape, stopping and tucking in the ends as you go; to get it really tight, push down into the foam pad or whatever surface you are using. Do not start to
Needle Felt Cow Kit, Little Hereford Cow with Variations, Printable PDF Pattern Digital Access Pass - All Levels Needle Felting, Needle Felting Craft Kit Learn to needle felt a cute little cow with this complete felting kit! Makes one 4” little mini cow! (Size is approximate and varies per individual). Each kit comes beautifully packaged with all necessary supplies: 2 Felting needles, Foam Felting Pad, Glass Eyes, Core Wool and Merino Wool Colors for creating detail. The included PDF pass gives you digital access to a printable full color picture tutorial that takes you step by step through creating the necessary shapes, how to correctly attach and finish your project with ease. Print your tutorial or us a device or pc to utilize the tutorial online. Instructional tutorial is the property of Sageland Inspirations LLC. Please do not duplicate or distribute in any way without the proper licensing and express consent of Sageland Inspirations LLC. 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Adorable felted fox for beginners.
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.
