Projects
Needle Felted Fish
Nothing about a fish body says fish. The fins and tail do all the work, and they only work if the body underneath is a flattened teardrop rather than a sausage.
6 min read Beginner
Topic
Animals
Felted creatures, from simple rounded shapes to detailed sculptures.
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Felt Animal Ornaments
A hanging animal is seen from every side and has to balance on one cord. What that means for the loop position, the weight, and how much detail is worth felting.
11 min read Intermediate
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Felt Animal Hair Clips
The animal is the easy part. The reason most felt hair clips end up in the bin is the join between the felt and the metal, and glue is never the answer.
4 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Frog
A frog with its legs out sideways and its eyes in the middle of its face is a toy lizard. The sitting pose is a flat Z of folded leg and two domes above the skull line.
7 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Chick
A chick is a big ball with a small ball sat straight on top of it. Put even a short neck between them and you have made a hen instead.
6 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Penguin
A penguin is two colours meeting along one line, and that line has to be sharp. Blend the black into the white and you get a grey smudge that no amount of extra work will fix.
6 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Pig
A pig skull runs in one straight line from between the eyes to the end of the snout. Leave a step where the forehead meets the nose and you have built a small pink bear instead.
7 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Hedgehog
The body takes twenty minutes. The spines take the rest, and there are four ways to make them — only two of which look right.
4 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Horse
A horse is half body and half leg, and the wire skeleton settles that before any wool goes on. Build the barrel deeper than the legs are long and you have made a pony.
7 min read Intermediate
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Needle Felted Sheep
The one animal where the material and the subject are the same thing. How to build the body, and why curly locks beat any amount of needling for the fleece.
4 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Turtle
A tortoise is a tall dome on four columns. A sea turtle is flat and wide with flippers. Most felted turtles are an unhappy average of the two.
7 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Fox
Foxes are made of triangles — a wedge head, pointed ears, a sharp muzzle — and one enormous tail. Get the wedge right and the rest follows.
4 min read Intermediate