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Cute Needle Felted Animal Friends: Adorable Cats, Dogs and Other Pets

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It’s a natural material, and, with the addition of dyes (don’t worry, you buy it pre-dyed), offers creative opportunities much like tubes of paint for a painting. But in this case, the medium is wool, and the creations are tiny characters, animals, charms, or toys. Needle felting is a fabulous craft that can turn wool into a wide variety of animals – from cats to cows and all creatures in between! With some basic supplies, special needles, and time, you can make your own needle felted animals. Tags cat crafts Craft for Cats Crafting expert Steffi Stern from The Makerss reveals how to turn wool into a felt feline friend! After signing up, you’ll received a materials kit with everything you need to make two mini cats which you can even purrsonalise to look like your own cat!

To make indentations in the shape you are making to give it dimensions, compress the middle of the shape. You can then use the felting needle to flatten all or a portion of the compressed area. This is a great way to make wings on birds, or to give added texture to the interior of animal ears. Using a felting needle allows you to fully control the shrinking, dry felting process and you can add wool for bulk or to add features to make your creation completely unique. It truly is magical and can be quite addictive, but therapeutic too.” I first tried the magical craft of needle felting over 15 years ago, making little decorations for my then-small children,” she explained.Let your imagination run wild! You can make an entire menagerie of miniature animals once you get into it. General Tips for Needle Felting Animals for Beginners

Poke the felting needle randomly into the wool you have formed loosely into your shape. Always poke in an up and down and not a sideways motion.Once each layer is added with very gentle strokes, use pictures as a guideline or take reference from existing animals to shape them into the form you are aiming to create. You will likely need to add more little tufts of wool to the shape to give it both dimension and contour. Sometimes, needle felters use armature wire or the cheaper version, pipe cleaner, as a frame for a shape or to create bendable parts.

Roving is available from various sources including wool fleece, raw cotton, and other fibers. For projects like this, wool is the top choice.You begin any needle felting project by rolling just a small amount of wool fleece or roving into a ball type shape, and puncturing it over and over again with the needle. Join us for Craft for Cats, our first-ever virtual craftalong, and you can learn how to make your own needle felted cat from the comfort of your own home. The mini cat project involves wrapping wool batts around a pipe cleaner, then ‘felting’ them down with the needle. The wool becomes less fluffy as the fibres are tangled tightly together until the texture is firm and the size has become smaller. Use straight pins to secure your shape down for an easier time. This will also relieve your fingers of getting stabbed.

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