Juliana Mason - NEEDLE FELTING FOR BEGINNERS: The Complete Step by Step Guide on Wool Sculpting

NEEDLE FELTING FOR BEGINNERS

The Complete Step by Step Guide on Wool Sculpting

Juliana Mason

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In this book you will be learning how to make simple, Needle Felt Fabric Shapes with bright Wool Roving and Cookie Cutters

You could be wondering what on earth is needle felting. More or less, it is making a felt material or fabric utilizing wool, for example, Wool Roving and uncommon, Barbed Felting Needles.

Have you taken note? Needle Felting has become an incredible mainstream make as of late. At the point when I previously began my experience into the alpaca fiber world, a great number of persons (myself inclusive) had never known about wool felting significantly less Needle Felting!

Fundamentally, Felting is the process or way of making a felt, a material or texture that is made by consolidating and packing free filaments or fibers, roving of wool. Sounds quite confusing I guess , isn't that so? It just implies that you tangle the hair to frame a matted piece. You know, when you have a thick knot in your hair that is difficult to brush out? Its like same thing.

With Needle Felting, this procedure is practiced by tangling or matting the wool with an exceptional pointed or scored felting needle. It is a dry felting technique in light of the fact that the wool is never wet instead of wet felting where the wool is felted with water, cleanser and unsettling. You can study how to wet felt.

There are different strategies for needle felting. This book guide is written having the starters and novices of needle felting in mind. Along these lines, I'm demonstrating how to make a straightforward slim, level bit of felt with wool wandering.

We will shape these pieces by felting the wool inside cookie shapers. These wool shapes would then be able to be utilized as patches or design for attire however they additionally make fun little Christmas trimmings.

The essential instruments or tools you require for this fiber workmanship are felting needles, wool, cookie shapers and an underlayment like a felting cushion or an extremely thick wipe. You can likewise get a total felting pack which has all that you have to start.

Wool Roving

Felting Pad or Thick Sponge

Finger Protectors

Felting Needles

Cookie shapers

The needle you should use depends on the area you intend to felt, you can utilize either a single needle or several needles. For instance, littler zones and edges are simpler to felt with only one needle.

On the other hand, a needle felting instrument is valuable for bigger regions as it holds a few needles and you can finish those parts a lot speedier.

Alert! This is definitely not a reasonable art for little youngsters. Felting Needles are amazingly sharp!

Next, you need some kind of wool or wandering. This can be as crude sheep wool or extravagant mohair or alpaca fiber. It's completely up to you. As a starter felter, wool roving is most likely a decent decision. Also, you can discover roving in multicolor packs which contain numerous awesome color combinations.

A felting pad is basically a consider piece delicate material which has two principle purposes. Initial, a felting cushion or pad secures whatever is underneath the wool, for example, a table or your lap. Second, it gives the felting needles something delicate to stick into so they don't break.

For this reason, you can likewise utilize a thick wipe like the ones they sell at an equipment or car store. They are modest and simple to discover however the drawback is that those wipes don't hold up very well after been used continuously.

In this manner, in case you will do a few needle felted pieces, I suggest utilizing a felting cushion. They last any longer and you ought to have the option to discover one at an art store or your nearby yarn shop.

Felting Pad (Needle Felting Tools and a Sponge)

Cookie shapers

You can utilize any sort of cookie shaper or cutter however, just be careful that felting needles are genuinely delicate and bound to break on the off chance that they hit metal rather than a plastic cookie shaper.

How to needle felt using cookie shapers

While not completely fundamental, you might need to get some finger protectors. You would be astonished how frequently I cut myself with those felting needles and trust me, they hurt!

Fundamental Needle Felting Supplies:
Wool Roving, Felting Pad, Felt Needle and a Cookie shaper

Before you can start, you will need to disperse or thin out your wool roving. All in all, it is smarter to needle felt a few dainty layers of wool rather than one thick layer. You can generally add more layers to thicken your piece yet it is difficult to expel a layer once everything is completely felted.

Meager or thin out the Wool Roving

To disperse your wool, with your hands, delicately open up the wool roving (side to side) until you can simply observe through it.

Next, place one of the cookie shapers on your felting cushion or wipe. At that point put a meager layer of wandering inside the cookie shaper making a point to get the wool into the edges of the cookie shaper too.

In case you're utilizing finger defenders, feel free to put those on. Presently, you are prepared to start needle felting.

Get your felting needle or device and cautiously start sticking through the wool into the felting cushion and pulling the needle back out. You don't need to stick the needle extremely far into the cushion. Simply make a point to get it entirely through the wool.

Do this gradually from the start and keep your hands out of the wool! Trust me when I state you would prefer not to jab yours

Keep jabbing the needle in and straight retreat once more. Ensure and felt up and down the edges too. You will begin to see the filaments or fibers mixing and matting together.