Needle felting allows an amazing range of creative expression. Grab your needle felting tools, wool roving and add a little embellishment to anything!
Materials:
- Pen Style Needle Felting Tool – Art. No 8901
- Tracing Paper (Chacopy) – Art. No 434
- Water Erasable Marker (Fine) – Art. No 515
- Mini Patchwork Scissors – Art. No 493/CW
- Gold Eye Chenille Needles (No. 22) – Art. No 234/22
- Embroidery Floss (Brown, Black)
- Wool Roving (Moss Green, Caramel, Yellow, Brown, Pink, Purple, Light Blue)
- Ball Point Pen
- 2 Canvas Pouches (4”x6”)
- Small dish sponge
*Optional: Wonder Fuse- Art. No 4090, Iron & neutral colored fabric
Templates
Instructions:
1. Trace the template onto the canvas pouch. Place the template on the canvas pouch with the tracing paper (chalk side facing down) in between the canvas pouch and template. Trace over the template with a ball point pen.
*Blue Chacopy gives the best contrast
*Optional: Use the Water Erasable Marker to trace over the lines marked by the tracing paper and make them more prominent.
2. Place dish sponge inside the canvas pouch. Dish sponge serves as a buffer when needle felting onto the canvas pouch
3. Using your Pen Style Needle Felting Tool with the single needle feature place the corresponding color of wool roving in its designated location and begin felting carefully between the lines
4. When felting is done use Gold Eye Chenille Needles to hand embroider.
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- Use three stands of brown embroidery floss to straight stitch stems
- Use three stands of black embroidery floss to french knot decorative stitches
*Optional: Turn canvas pouches inside out and Wonder Fuse fabric to secure felting and hand-embroidery into place from inside the canvas pouch
5. Use water to remove markings from canvas pouch
Embellish with Felting
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