The latest in my series of WIPs that I’ve conquered is needle felting.
A year ago I bought some wool roving and tools to start needle felting. The desire to try stabbing wool with needles to make felt was inspired by Kirstie Allsopp’s Handmade Britain programme. Like many of my crafts, it sat in it’s box ready to be started whenever ‘that’ moment came.
A year later, the box was still tucked away neatly in the cupboard when I received my latest Crafty Creatives box. For those not in the know, this is a themed box of craft goodies that arrives in the post every month. January’s theme is Woodland and there was a needle felting kit included.
This is my first attempt at making a leaf from the kit. You collect strands of the wool roving, lay it criss cross over itself on a pad and then stab it with a special barbed needle. After turning it over and stabbing the reverse, you can start shaping it and then adding features.
This is my slightly more successful second attempt which I was aiming to be an oak leaf.
I used my multi needle tool I’d originally bought as it has a safety collar. I didn’t trust myself with a barbed needle unprotected near my fingers! My next project will be to make some 3D models (I’ve seen a cute tutorial for an owl somewhere). Hopefully it won’t take me another year to get the box out of the cupboard again.