Needle felting can be a fun way to create small stuffed animals with different colors of wool yarn roving. Add some pipe cleaners, some small felt clothes, a few stitches for eyes and a nose, and some practice, you can have an adorable fox, bunny, pig, mouse, dragon, or any another creature from your imagination.
In this CBC Arts video, artist Lesley-Anne Green demonstrates how she makes small needle felted animals with some diligent poking and stabbing of wool with a felting needle.
Learn more about needle felting with these awesome books: Woolbuddies: 20 Irresistibly Simple Needle Felting Projects and The Natural World of Needle Felting: Learn how to make more than 20 adorable animals. There are also excellent starter kits that we’ve made animals with, including these kits from Woolbuddies and this Klutz Felted Friends kit.
Next: Samantha Bryan’s handmade fairies & flying contraptions and Laika’s Head of Puppetry explains how stop motion puppets are made.Also: Crocheting with English Angora Rabbit Wool.
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