Today’s tutorial is a request from members of The VLB 😀 The VLB is my monthly *cough*most of the time *cough* newsletter which includes all kinds of awesome things and the logo is a crest representing everything we’re about.
The original crest itself is a little complicated for a quick and easy needle felting project so I’ve just made a simplified version that hopefully you guys can follow along with and make your own!
You’ll need some yellow felt and other general needle felting supplies.
First cut the general crest shape out of the yellow felt.
Apply light green wool in the shapes shown below:
Fill in the opposite corner with pink wool.
Cut out a little crown from the yellow and needle it to the top of the crest, add a little red heart to the middle. My heart looks more like a circle… but whatever >_>
Now add some big fluffy white wings behind it.
Lastly use some light purple wool to write the letters VLB in each section. The last section has a heart in mine but you can add your own initials.
Done! Now you can needle felt it to a piece of clothing or put a pin on the back so you can wear it anywhere.
Cuuute!
Thank you so much to the members of the VLB for this awesome idea, make sure you send me some photos of yours so I can put them in the newsletter! If you want to sign up, just check out the page here.
Ok it’s the time of year where I get really into hats again. It’s probably because I’ve been watching Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and I want ALL THE CLOCHES.
So… I decided to give making one a try. It didn’t turn out too badly actually and now that I know how much the felt shrinks I think I’m going to get a bit more adventurous next time and make something more impressive.
I used the easiest technique: needle felting.
Basically I made a big circle and stabbed at it until it was fairly sturdy, then I built upwards to eventually close in the top with more felt.
It took a lot of needling, more than I’ve done for any project but for something like a hat you really want the felt to be tight and secure.
Looking slightly more hat-ish at this point.
Once the main hat shape was done I started to shape a small brim.
To force the shape more I needled directly on the brim line.
Lastly I added a little white band that ended in a bow out of some more wool roving which was twisted together.
Taadaa cute!
I love the colour and shape of how it turned out. I’m thinking of doing some more traditionally 1920’s styles next to let our my inner Phryne!
One of these days I’m going to bob my hair, find a companion and solve some kind of murder mystery!
Spring! Nice warm weather! Except it’s Melbourne and we’re having none of that! But who cares, let’s pretend! So after needle felting those gloves last time, I wanted to do some more using the same technique so I found an old cardigan that needed some updating and off I went 😀
Old Cardigan:
The technique is the same as last time. A circle of yellow, a leaf and this time I added in vine to connect them all.
After I did the basic shapes I went back to add in the swirls etc.
Taadaa!
Easy!
This took maybe half an hour and now the cardigan goes with a whole new range of outfits. It’s worth thrifting a few more of them in different colours!
Now you just need somewhere equally pretty to wear it!
Looking good!
So what do you guys think I should embellish next?
Recently I have been making a lot of presents for people! I like making presents because it means getting to craft and not having the results taking up a lot of space here 😀
The only down side is I have to wait for them to receive it before I post photos and tutorials haha!
I needle felted these gloves as a birthday gift for Christina who rocks.
So how to needle felt flowers? Let’s start!
You need:
Felting needle
Felting backing thing, I used to use foam but Kim gave me her brush thing which is waaaaay better as it’s actually specifically for this.
Wool roving
Gloves or whatever you’re felting to
I decided to do different colours per glove so one purple and one yellow with green flowers.
The gloves!
Stick the brush or whatever you’re using for backing inside the glove. It can be a bit awkward depending on the size. By actually putting the brush inside the glove the sides won’t stick together when we felt them.
Now let’s make the flowers. Felt a small yellow ball to the glove. Poke more around the edges to secure them.
Now punch a spiral pattern into the circle.
Next add a tear shaped petal and poke in the middle as a leaf shape.
Add a second one just overlapping it.
Repeat all over the glove in varying directions!
Cute!
All done! I want to do this to the edge of my cardigans now, it’s so sweet ^_^
Hope you guys enjoyed and I hope Christina enjoys wearing them!
So it’s been a while between Home Sweet Home projects but I’m so motivated at the moment that I did like 10 of them last week 😀 First up we have a needle felted hedgehog pin cushion!
This is the second part of the previous organising of the pin cushion project. Lovely reader Erin sent me a really cute pattern for a stitched felt hedgehog which I am going to make as well but I am SUPER obsessed with needle felting at the moment, it’s such an easy craft and really quick too once you get the hang of it! I bought a needle from Morris and Sons and some roving from Lincraft to start myself off ad see if I actually enjoyed it before I went crazy. For the base of the hedgehog I used some white pillow stuffing so I didn’t waste my yarn XD Stab it into a little ball the size of the body you want and flatten the bottom. I might do a more detailed tutorial/video on this later if anyone wants to see ^_^ Cut a small piece of wool to use as a nose. Spin it into a point at one end. Felt it into shape and then felt it into one end of the ball. Add random colours all over the body. I made mine quite fluffy and used synthetic fluff because it looked more cotton candy-ish. Add some little back eyes. And little round feet for it to stand on. Then once it’s the density you want (fairly thick) you just need to pop in all of your pins! My old pin cushion looks a little sad next to the super cute hedgehog! The other project I made with my kit that night was a little fox! I love foxes, they look so cuddly… they’re not in real life but they look like they should be! I also tried to make a Bergamot before I had any black roving so she didn’t turn out so well XD Now that I have more colours I want to remake her! Have any of you guys tried needle felting? I think I’m completely addicted now!
Illustrator. Strong tea, knitting, watercolours, and making a video game called Moonlight in Garland. Living with her adorable husband Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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