Over the years in this blog I have shown how I make a fabric figure and how I make a bottle doll but not how I needle felt so I thought it was time to remedy that. Yesterday I made the harbor seal shown above; I plan on making his partner today and then offering them as a pair. This picture shows all the material I used when creating him. Should you like to try your hand at it you will need the following:
1.Piece of foam (mine is green) to prevent stabbing your fingers with needle..or maybe I should say to limit number of times you stab yourself with the needle.
2. Felting needles..there are different sizes..some for core felting and some for finishing work
3. Wool roving- for this seal I used white, grey, brown and black. Usually I make my figures with white core wool roving then layer on the color at the end.
4. Pair of eyes, nose- sometimes I make the eyes/noses out of wool but since for this figure I am inserting plastic eyes/nose I have included them. You will also need white glue which I forgot to include in photo.
5. Pipe cleaners- I use Dill brand. They work perfectly for my fabric figure fingers as well as for needle felting. This seal’s body supports itself so pipe cleaners for neck and fin support is all that is needed. If I was making a figure that actually stood on legs I would use wrapped wire instead for strength.
6. And finally I use both dark and light horse hair for the whiskers in any figure that requires them. It easily threads using a beading needle and holds in place with a tiny bit of glue.
And that’s it for supplies. The next step is to research the actual animal you wish to create. I will bring up a multitude of pictures on my tablet, choose the pose I want to replicate and keep that image close as reference when needle felting. Now all you need is time and patience!
Time to add the nose.
And here they are..two adorable harbor seals
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