Alice Green - Needle Felting for Beginners: The Complete Step by Step User Guide to Craft Out Awesome Needle Felting Projects and Lifelike Needle Felted Animals and More with Wool

Needle Felting for Beginners

The Complete Step by Step User Guide to Craft Out Awesome Needle Felting Projects and Lifelike Needle Felted Animals and More with Wool

By

Alice Green

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Introduction

E veryone, to an extent , appreciates art.

This could be arguable, but it explains why you can decide to sit down for a relaxing afternoon after a week full of work, and what you are settling down to do will be to reproduce the beautiful knit work you saw somewhere online. For some reason, you could not tell, you were drawn to the intricacies of the design, and although you could not quite make sense of all that you had seen, it did not change the fact that you were going to replicate that design to the best of your abilities.

So, Saturday evening meets you on the reclining chair, working on the design you saved for the weekend while the voice of your favorite classical musicians fills the evening air. It is a challenging project - no doubt - but you would be lying if you tried to deny the fact that there is something about the project that thrills you to your bone marrows.

The love for art.

That's exactly what takes you to the art gallery's commissioning taking place down the street you live in. You probably do not understand most of what you will see in the art gallery and some of the art pieces that would be on display may just look like a bunch of crap to you. However, there are those that you would love, and that would cause you to stand before them for long minutes, staring at them in wonder and marveling at the craftmanship displayed by the artist who created them. In those few minutes, you would not be able to deny the fact that a good art piece, no matter how abstract it may seem to you, always seems to be able to draw you in and grab your attention.

There are probably a thousand different scenarios to explain this. Everyone loves art to some extent. Even if you do not quite agree to this, there may just be a little part of you that tries to rebel occasionally by reaching out to the beauty of art.

That's even the better thing about it. Art can be appreciated on different levels by different people. For some, they believe that they need to be actively involved in the creation process. These people, like the painters, writers, singers, etc. love to be the ones who make the magic happen. On the other hand, others are content with standing on the sidelines and watching things unfold. They are the ones that prefer to go to see the complete works of art, and appreciate them as best as they can. That's the great thing about art; there's something in it for everyone.

As a lover of art, you have probably heard about felting and how the process can be adapted to create phenomenal art projects. This book is directed toward; helping you harness your felting skills and getting you to the point where you can create beautiful artworks and advanced crafts all by yourself.

First off, felting is the process of making use of felt (which is a textile material) to create amazing craftworks and pieces of art. Needle felting is a kind of felting carried out with the aid of a specific kind of needle. If you have been looking for a new kind of art to explore or thinking of ways to get creative around the house and get some things done (as you would see in later sections of this book), you may want to consider going into needle felting.

And there is nothing to be scared about.

This book contains just enough information to get you started with needle felting, even if you are just a beginner. Within the pages that follow, you will learn all the basics of needle felting, why you should consider felting as a regular part of your life, felting tips and tricks you can apply to improve your skills, and everything you can think of that concerns needle felting.

There are crash courses for almost anything. Think of this book as a crash book/guide to needle felting. By the time you are done, you should be able to create some phenomenal felting projects and execute on the ideas in your head.

If you are ready, then let's get started

Chapter 1

What is Needle Felting?

N eedle felting is an intricate process that uses barbed needles to interlock wool fibers to form a strong and condensed material. Simply put, needle felting is the process of sculpting felt (a special kind of wool) into something better and more beautiful than the original state of the felt. Normally, wool fibers have a property that makes them suitable for this purpose. Wool fibers, when rubbed together, latch onto themselves and hold on together. This forms a denser material known as felt.