Ari Yoshinobu - Needle Felting for Beginners: How to Make Cute Felt Creations with Minimal Tools

NEEDLE FELTING

FOR

BEGINNERS

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Introduction

C rafting is a great way to keep yourself busy and be productive in your downtime. You can also make homemade gifts if you are good at a craft. But it can be hard to find a craft that interests you, is not too hard to learn, and does not require a lot of supplies to get started. Making a major investment to learn a craft is a lot to ask if you do not even know that you will be good at it or enjoy it!

Luckily, needle felting is a craft that is easy to learn and does not require a lot of supplies. This book will give you an overview of the supplies that you need to get started, as well as what you might want to invest in to step up your game after you learn the process.

There are also step-by-step instructions that will help you learn the basics. You will get a chance to try your hand at several different designs, starting with flat designs and progressing to three-dimensional (3D) sculptures.

Once you understand the basic process, you will have no problem creating your own projects. Wait until you see how easy needle felting can be, and how cute the final products look! You will love making these items for yourself, your family and others.

Chapter 1:

Needle Felting

F elting is a way to make wool or cotton into a piece of fabric by connecting the individual fibers. This is one of the few ways of creating fabric that does not involve weaving or spinning. Felting changes the texture of the wool and allows you to do more with it than you could with just the loose fibers. There are many ways of felting, including knitting a project and then felting, wet felting, dry felting, and needle felting.

Needle felting might sound like a very involved process that involves various machines, but it is a project that you can do easily by hand. Needle felting allows you to create 3D objects from a piece of cotton or wool. Using a barbed needle, you work the fibers of the fabric so that they bond together and feel solid. This is a very hands-on craft that enables you to transform loose fiber into a picture that you have in your mind.

After you make the cute designs from this book, you will understand how the texture can be worked into shapes, and you will be able to create your own ideas from scratch. The basic techniques of needle felting are easy to learn and, as you work through the provided patterns, you will start to create your own patterns.

What is Needle Felting?

B asically, needle felting is a method by which to compress loose fibers into a single fabric. This means that you are tangling fibers into a matted piece somewhat like the matted fur sometimes found on long haired pets or the proverbial rats nest of tangled hair, only needle felting is cleaner and way more fun!

As you start matting a piece of fabric, you can decide what you want to create from it. Since all felting starts as agitating fibers into a tangle, you can start working while you let your imagination run wild. You can keep your project on a flat surface as you needle felt and make flat designs. Just because your felting project is flat does not mean it has to be a square or rectangle sheet! Using cookie cutters and stencils, you can make flat felt projects of different shapes.

You can then take those flat fabrics and shape them into different 3D sculptures. While you are felting, you can also easily shape the fibers to make them look like certain characters or objects. Needle felting sculptures of animals is really popular, and you will learn to make plenty of them in this book.

A perk of needle felting is that you can also use this method to mend clothes! You can use flat felted fabrics as patches on clothes. Once you understand how needle felting works, you might even feel confident enough to use this skill to repair your sweaters and socks!