Needle felting a hare using lamb’s wool fibres

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Needle felting is fun. Here is a hare, made from fluffy lamb’s wool fibres.

Needle felting is finally getting more publicity and instead of being called a craft, it is classed as a valid art form. Needle felting is gaining a reputation as a fun activity for ages over 10 years, who would have guessed that sculpting wool fibres into an animal with a sharp needle would have been possible!

Needle felting is fun, for-instance, It is easy to learn. Whether on a course or by purchasing a kit, these are accessible to buy on the high street or from sites like mine. You learn how to sculpt wool fibres to create animals or even pictures. Be aware that the sharp needle are not for little hands or paws, the specialist needle is called a barbed needle for a reason.

I have a variety of Kits available to view via the link or I can create a custom built kit to your specification, on request.

My personal favourites are the hares, then dogs and cats. foxes, owls and birds lol, all of them really! Many people on my courses create a woolly replica of their dog and achievable once you have learnt the basics. The technique looks quite vicious but with tuition you will find it to be great fun as the fibres form into a sculptured shape before your eyes. Using this needle to stab the wool fibres it will knit and interlock them together to create the 3-dimensional sculpted animals. People will not believe that you made it from a mass of fluffy fibres.

Needle felting a hare is fun. The technique is much easier than you may think, beginners welcome.

Firstly, the only way to really learn a skill is by actually having a stab at it, pardon the pun! I prefer to attend a course to learn the basic’s. Secondly, there are, however, people who prefer to learn from a kit and remotely.

You will find more examples of these animals and needle felted pictures plus my courses via this needle felting link: course

I have written previously about needle felting here: needle felt animals

Gift vouchers and kits also make fabulous presents.

New Courses Dates: July – September

Courses resume on the 10th of July. Following strictly to the government guidelines. Starting-10th July – Numbers will be limited to 4 people maximum. I will wear a mask, but will mainly be demonstrating from a 3 metre distance. How will it work? social distancing at 2 meters apart (although the government have relaxed the distance to 1 metre). Teaching semi outside in; a large a marquee for the first 6 – 8 weeks. Maximum 4 people Downstairs toilet – Sanitised after use. Self-service refreshments – Sanitised areas. Face masks are compulsory.

All of the dates are subject to getting a minimum of 2 – 4 people on any date.

1. Friday 10th July – Batik
2. Saturday 11th July – Needle Felting – (Only 1 place left)
3. Sunday 12th July – Wet Felting: Pictures, bags, scarves etc
4. Friday 17th July – Feltmaking ALL
5. Saturday 18th July – Needle Felting
6. Wednesday 22nd July –  Any Felting – (2 places left)
7. Saturday 25th July any Feltmaking
8. Sunday  26th July – Batik 
9. Saturday 1st August – Anything feltmaking and more….www.feltworld.co.uk

Click on the hares below to see my Needle Felt course page.

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