What is needle felting

If you like acquiring new crafts or always wanted to try needle felting in particular, this is a tutorial to get you started. Included are my recommendations for basic needle felting tools and a few simple needle felting techniques to try! #needlefelting #artsandcrafts #handmade #arttutorial

The Felt Hub on Instagram: "Needle Felted Christmas Decorations. Are you making needle felted Christmas baubles but struggling with a good shape and smooth finish? This short video tutorial will help you improve your needle felting technique. However, please remember there is no substitute for time. If you have a few to make and are short on time, I would suggest looking at wool dryer balls as an option. #thefelthub . . #diycraft #needlefelting #felting #handmadechristmas…

Learn how to make a cute little mouse using needle felting techniques and wool fibres with this easy, beginner friendly tutorial.

Now I don't profess to be an expert on this, but Louise asked if needle felting was hard, so I'm going to show you how I do it. I didn't use an armature on Hyacinth, but I am using one here for this dog. Cut two pieces of pipe cleaner 4" long and one piece 3 1/2" long. Bend them into the shapes shown. It should end up looking like this. See, two leg parts and one head/body/tail part. Now twist the leg parts around the body part. With a few bends in the right places it's already starting to…

cheese grater I just have to tote the wonders of my handy-dandy cheese grater! I recommend this trick all the time to my felting classes, but I highly recommend it now! Yesterday I was felting in my Wonder Washer an all-cream sheep for a customer, and I wasn't liking how it was felting. I had felted it, stuffed it with fiberfill and as it dried the stitch definition returned. I knew this yarn was capable of felting better (by past experience). Normally I would pull out the stuffing and throw…

When needle felting, even the tiniest error may ruin an entire project, and there are several frequent errors that beginners make. Well, it is common for beginners to make mistakes. However, avoiding these common mistakes can make your needle felting journey much easier to begin. Here are 6 of the common mistakes beginner do while getting into needle felting. Read this article to find out what they are and what not to do.

Does it frustrate you that your wool figurines don't look the way you want them to? The best advice to beginner needle felters will help!

Needle felting trick of the day. When I make my animals with fur I wrap my wire armature with a color that I want to have just a bit of in the finished sculpture. Once I have planted all the fur over it, I use a reverse needle to pull little bits of this color through until it is interspersed throughout my fur. In this case I only wanted small bits of black, so I am pulling it through where I want to highlight that color. After I pull the wool through I just snip it to the length of fur…

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