Needle Felting Tips And Techniques Useful In Creating Felt Clothing And Accessories
Needle (Dry) Felting is an easy needle punch form of embellishing a piece of woollen felt
. The felt needle has rough, notched edges that force the fibre down, causing it to entangle with other fibres and wool to create the felting.
Using this technique you are able to create designs on felt clothing and accessories, collage and pictures and also three-dimensional shapes.
Craft 4 Less offer a wide range of Australian Merino wool and Nepalese Combed wool for felting. Craft 4 Less also have all the accessories you need to complete your project including dry felting needles, dry felting tools to hold your needles safely as well as sponges and brushes that enable you to punch through the felt. No glue or thread is required for Needle (Dry) Felting.
Using these basic tools, felt and wool you are able to make very simple abstract designs for a card, bookmark or clothing or take it to the next level and make three-dimensional ornaments or collage sculptures. The technique is the same for all proejcts - simply repeatedly pushing the needle up and down into the felt and wool fibres until they lock together.
Australian Merino wool is available in a huge range of colours as well as a range of verigrated colours. Nepalese Combed Felt also has an amazing range of colours available individually or in bags of mixed colours based on the seasons - autumn, summer, winter and spring.
Needle Felting is safe for older children with supervision (we recommend using the needle felting tool with the safety lock and for children 8 and up) and they will love the simple projects to get them started.
More projects using the Needle (Dry) Felting technique will be added regularly.