What is Needlefelting? It's basically stabbing a ball of wool with a little needle with barbs on the end until the wool fibers are interwoven into a hard-ish mass. What can you make in this fashion? Lots of things!
I started with tiny versions of my furry babies:
I didn't quite get the one of Mercedes finished before she went to her new home, but I'm glad I have it now. These will be going on our Christmas tree shortly!
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| Reunited and it feels so good! |
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| I'm pretty happy with the detail I got into the back of Merce. Her stripes were one of my favorite things about her! |
I also created a pillow for my boss for her birthday. We had seen a pillow a while back that said "Tonight" on one side and "Not Tonight" on the other.
She joked that she would buy it if it said "Not Tonight" on both sides. So that's what we gave her! :)
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| Thanks to my lovely assistant, Lisa, at work. Here she is modeling our pillow... |
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| And here's the second side! |
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| I did the sides all kinds of wrong, but they ended up pretty cool! |
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| I cut out the letters from a wool felt sheet and placed them on the other sheet before needling them together. |
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| The sides of the pillow pre assembly. |
Just so you have an idea, this is what I used to create everything:
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| The green thing is the needle tool. It's spring-loaded. Much easier than the single needle tool I used for Cali and Merce! |
Make sure you have a pad or foam block or brush of some sort. Otherwise you'll stab yourself repeatedly. Which I might have done.
I literally put my blood, sweat and tears into each of these projects!
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