Felting

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  Step 1

  first off you <i><u>need</i></u> to buy a felting needle/tool
  i dont suggest buying just the needles
  because accidents happen and these needle are extremely sharp!

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  Step 2

  oh and no you cannot just use any plain simple needle to do this
  (trust me i tried xp )
  felting needles have special barbs in them which help the tiny wool fibers to interlock with eachother

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  Step 3

  next you need a felting block
  <b>or</b>
  if your cheap like me ;]
  then find a styrofoam block
  but make sure its big enough
  because this is like our base that we're gonna be stabbing with our needle.

  you dont want to break a needle by stabbing it into the table

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  Step 4

  last thing you need to buy now is the roving wool which you can find at your local crafts store

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  Step 5

  ok so now that we have everything
  get wool and pull a piece off
  (not too big not too little this is just a practice thing)

  then place it on your felting block

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  Step 6

  with your needle you start to stab the piece of wool in a vertical (up & down) motion

  *try not to stab at an angle because this could break your needle

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  Step 7

  once you've stabbed most of the wool
  flip it over and stab it some more

  it doesnt look like anything yet but once the fibers start to lock into eachother it begins to get a bit more stiff

  *dont stab it tooo much
  remember you want to be able to still pull it off your block

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  Step 8

  just keep stabbing...
  just keep stabbing...

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  Step 9

  as your stabbing away at that piece of wool start to bring/pull the edges into that wool-y center
  im not sure how to explain this :/
  but its like your sculpting the wool with the needle
  bunching the wool into a somewhat more solid shape ?

  <- in these pics im just doing a simple circle

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  Step 10

  when you have a pretty solid shape take it off the felting block.

  it looks fuzzy with stray fibers right?

  this is what i do:

  for a flat piece - rub your hands together until its warm and then rub the piece between your hands..until its warm
  it smooths most of it down

  for a 3D-ish shaped piece - just use a small pair of scissors and cut the fuzz off

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  Step 11

  finished!

  you can make these into any shape you want, any size, any color

  if you have any questions comment/message me and i'll get back to ya as sooon as i can ;D

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Livia 29th March 2011

huh you use Styrofoam... i usually use felting foam bc ive been told that styrofoam doesnt work and really cool needle btw haha i only have plain felting needles

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quirky been v. · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 8 projects 19th April 2010

ive decided to start this summer!! (yeah right like that'll ever get done) im sorry that was the sarcastic side of me!!

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Kat · La Cañada Flintridge, California, US 8th March 2009

This is absolutely PERFECT
I always wondered how to do this
You can make so much cute stuff!
I am off to go try this now.

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k!m · Las Vegas, Nevada, US · 4 projects 5th March 2009

im happy to have inspired someone ^_^

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Katherine Munro · Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA · 12 projects 4th March 2009

This is great, I've always wanted to try felting. I even have all the stuff but now I'm inspired to actually do it now that I can see it being done. Great job on the How-to!

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k!m · Las Vegas, Nevada, US · 4 projects 28th February 2009

i havent tried wet felting (yet;)
but i hope this helps

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FrolleinKram · Las Vegas, Nevada, US · 132 projects 27th February 2009

Uh... I'm used to wet felting, but I'm gonna try this since you can do shapes and patterns and stuff WAY better this way... Thanks for sharing.

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k!m · Las Vegas, Nevada, US · 4 projects 24th February 2009

hm i really dont know /:T
im sure you can with A LOT of wool and patience
but it would probably be alot easier to just buy a wool scarf and felt patterns or whatever into it

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Cheryl H. 23rd February 2009

hello, i'd like to do a scarf; is that possible?

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k!m · Las Vegas, Nevada, US · 4 projects 10th February 2009

your welcome! ^_^

to get color and details in it you can just felt it on
or you can can twist colors together to get like a twisted mixed color look

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