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Quick Needle Felting Tutorial

Okay I’m going to do a quick needle felting tutorial today..

I’m making a cardinal for Haley..

Supplies

Needle felting needles – I use size 38 and 36

needle felting surface (dense Styrofoam)

Core wool

Red wool

Orange wool

Black wool

plastic eyes and feet optional (I don’t have but might add later)

First step gather your supplies..

Needles and dense Styrofoam

Core Wool

Dyed Wool

.. the white wool pictured here WAS going to be for the eyes but Haley decided that she didn’t want eyes on her cardinal..

Next take the core wool and make the bird’s shape..

It does not have to be perfect because it will be covered later with the red wool but should roughly be the final shape you want it to be.

To do this take your 36 needle and repeated poke your wool until it starts to hold the shape.

The needles have prongs on the side that grab the wool and push it through but it slides back out easily..

Once you get the basic shape then it’s time to add the dyed wool..

Here is a better picture of the basic bird shape..

Keep adding until the bird is fully covered and add the cone.

After you get some detail work done to the body and cone add the black face and the beak. Use the 38 needle for detailing.

Once it’s ready to love..

and kiss..

UPDATE

Later I was told I had to make a banana slug..

How did I do??

Not ANOTHER Hobby..

I can hear it now..

OH NO.. not ANOTHER hobby..

HAHAHAHAhaha

You tell me.. is it worth it??

I’ve been wanting to try needle felting and today I finally took the plunge.. I think I like it.. other than the occasional finger poke it’s quite fun..

JRT above still needs eyes and a nose but what do you think??

Worth the time?

Vinyl for Yudu

Today I worked on cutting vinyl for my Yudu..

but I forgot to reverse the image first..

whoops..

ARGH.. Going to make a video this week to show my mom how to Yudu..

Time to cut a new vinyl image..

maybe this time I’ll remember to reverse the image!

I’m Famous.. LOL

Okay.. not yet but I was mentioned on Priddy Creations website for the 1st Annual Fabric Scrap Challenge.. Come join!

More Crafts..

Boy I’m on a roll..