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Wildsky

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Wanted to show what I've been doing. Needle felting.

I started with some odd looking faces, I wanted to make animals but made a face and kept wanting to improve it.

Two that are still being worked on
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I decided yesterday to try work on a portrait, and decided my hubbys grandfather was perfect! I found a photo, tried to print it but was out of ink so its black and white photo.
I need to work on the glasses, they're hard to make when they're so darn tiny. The cap is also unfinished, I'll work more on it later. (the face is probably about an inch across the eyes)

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My hubby wants me to make the other grandfather as well, and put them into a shadow box as a gift for his parents.
 

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How amazing is that!!! I was just reading about "felting" in my knitting book. Is this the same? Please give us more info on your craft!!!


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Needle felting, you start with a big puffy piece of wool, and "felt" it using a barbed needle. By poking the needle in and out it knots up the fibers and creates a felt.
You can see the two needles I was using - propping up the head - one needle has a blue topper.
There are a few sizes of needles, and each has a series of barbs at the end, which are what grab and knot up the fibers.

You can make a very hard felt if you jab it with the needle long enough... my heads are kinda squeezable, they bounce back if you squeeze them.

I make the faces by folding and rolling the wool roving into an egg shape, I felt that till its squeezable, and then I add the features, but making hollows for the eyes, adding lips, nose and ears etc. Using different colors to get the eyes and lips to look as real as possible.
I used glass eyes on the one face, but they arent' as nice as trying so hard to get a tiny little eye right! :D
 

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TanksHill said:
How amazing is that!!! I was just reading about "felting" in my knitting book. Is this the same? Please give us more info on your craft!!!


gina
Your knitting book probably has wet felting mentioned, where you wash a knitted item in hot water to get it to felt/shrink to shape.
 

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Wildsky said:
TanksHill said:
How amazing is that!!! I was just reading about "felting" in my knitting book. Is this the same? Please give us more info on your craft!!!


gina
Your knitting book probably has wet felting mentioned, where you wash a knitted item in hot water to get it to felt/shrink to shape.
Yes, your right on that. It is just amazing how neat the faces look.

gina
 

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I've needle felted flat drawings, and always wanted to try doing the 3-d look stuff... having my own wool roving would be a huge reason that I want sheep (plus the milk and lamb chops too.. lol)

Those look really great! I love the way the lips on the grandfather portrait turned out.
 
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