Needle Felting
by Maria Nerius, Craft Concierge

Supplies Needed

• Felting Needle

• Roving

• Sheet of Foam or Clover Felting Brush pad

• Pattern or project plan (you can free form needle felting designs)

General Instructions - (also see our video links below)

1. Gather roving, shape as needed for project in one hand or on your foam sheet. In your other hand, hold your needle felting tool with the sharp end pointed away from you.

2. Begin to punch or push your felting tool into the roving. Repeat until area becomes solid. The barbs on the felting needle are agitating the wool fibers causing them to bond to each other. The wispy nature of the wool becomes solid.

3. Example: You want to make a small round hand-felted pendant. Grab tufts of roving and roll a small ball. Place ball onto foam and flatten. Begin to punch your felting needle randomly into the flat circle. Flip once the flat circle begins to become more solid. Repeat needle felting, keep flipping that round pendant until you are happy with its shape and feel. If there are some fuzzies and you want a neater look, just use scissors to trim away the fuzzies.

Additional Information

• There are needle felting tools where you can use 2, 3 and even 6 needles at the same time.
• Clover has a full line of needle felting tools and supplies - GO>>

Sources: 
Video  by Rice Freeman-Zachery - GO>>
Video by The Crafts Beautiful Magazine - GO>>
Video by TheSilverPenny.homestead.com - GO>>