·Needle felting uses a long, thin needle which has a series of notches at its tip. When you poke this needle into and out of the wool, those notches tangle the fibers of the wool together, and as you felt, the wool starts to feel firmer and shrink in size.
·Features 20 adorable projects including toadstools and mushrooms, pumpkins, finger puppets, gnomes, fairies, elves, dragons, and unicorns.
·Claudia's projects cover the world of mystical woodland creatures, which is unique to the needle felting community of books.
·Includes an overview of wool, needles, and other required tools and materials.
·Includes tips on techniques for dying, blending, creating shapes, armatures (the internal foundation on which to build your sculpture) and eyes.
|Needle felting is a process that uses barbed needles to mash wool fibers together forming a denser material into an endless range of shapes and forms, a great way to make adorable fully dimensional soft sculptures. The Complete Starter Guide to Needle Felting: Enchanted Forest by artist and author Claudia Lenart features 20 step-by-step beginner needle crafting projects including birds, fairies, unicorns, and many other woodland friends. Learn what needles to use, how to dye custom colors, how to blend colors and shapes, and the materials needed to begin the fulfilling art of needle felting. Claudia's felted artwork has been featured in two children's books and in national commercials.