Learning a Needle Felting (Week 5)

For my craft, I decided to learn needle felting. There are many amazing needle felters out there like this one:

Needle Felted Shiba Inu by http://kittenblackua.deviantart.com/

Needle Felted Shiba Inu by http://kittenblackua.deviantart.com/

The supplies you will need to do felting are:

1. Felting needles:

Felting Needles

Felting Needles

2. Wool roving:

Wool Roving

Wool Roving

3. Something to shape your

Something to shape your piece, in this case, an egg cup...

Something to shape your piece, in this case, an egg cup…

For my first foray into needle felting, I created a simple mushroom:

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Instructions:

1. Grab your piece of wool roving.

wool roving

Wool roving

2. Find something that will shape the wool into what you want. In this case, I’m using an egg cup to give me a nice rounded mushroom top.

I'm using an egg cup to shape the wool roving

I’m using an egg cup to shape the wool roving

3. Start poking the wool with your needle.

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Use the needle to poke the wool

4. The wool will eventually condense and come together.

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Condensed wool mushroom top after about ten minutes of poking

5. Once we have the shape we want, we can add details to it. Here, I have shaped little spots for the top of the mushroom and just poked those until they become attached to the rest.

adding spots

Adding spots

Mushroom Spot

Continue creating forms and adding details with these methods!

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