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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
Topic
Animals — page 3
Needle Felting
Needle Felted Face
Faces are made by taking wool away, not adding it. The order of operations that gets a head from a ball to a character, for animals and dolls alike.
4 min read Advanced
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Needle Felted Dog
One armature and one method covers every breed. What actually changes between a dachshund and a labrador, and the four measurements that make a dog recognisable.
5 min read Intermediate
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Needle Felted Pet Portraits
A portrait is not a better sculpture — it is a different problem. How to read a photograph, which four features carry the likeness, and what to charge.
4 min read Advanced
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Needle Felted Cat
Cats read as cats because of the skull, not the fur. The proportions that make the difference, plus ears, whiskers and the sleeping pose that hides every hard part.
9 min read Intermediate
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Needle Felted Bunny
Two balls, two ears and a tail. The simplest sculpture worth making, plus what to change to get a lop, a hare or a sitting rabbit that does not topple.
7 min read Beginner
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Needle Felted Bee
A striped oval with wings. Small, quick, sells well at craft fairs, and the one project where getting the stripes wrong ruins everything.
4 min read Beginner
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Animals
Wet felting makes bodies, not faces. Build the animal as a hollow form over a resist, full it hard, then dry-felt the detail on top — that combination is how the best felted animals are made.
4 min read Intermediate
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How to Make Felt Mice
A mouse is one shape. Get the teardrop right — fat at the back, tapering to a point at the nose — and the ears, tail and eyes take five minutes.
5 min read Beginner
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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
Needle Felting
Wire Armature for Needle Felting
How to build a wire armature that lets a felted figure stand, bend and stay bent — and how to wrap it so the needles never meet the wire.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
Needle Felted Animals for Beginners
Nineteen animals on this site and about five shapes between them. The construction method that builds all of them, and the order to make them in so each one teaches the next.
10 min read Beginner