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Needlefelted DIY Wall Art

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Needlefelting is one of the easiest crafts to learn because it’s fun, it’s colorful, and it’s a great stress reliever too. With a needle punch tool and a little imagination, you can create whimsical DIY wall art project like this silly sunny daisy. Needlefelting is like painting with wool – try it, you’ll like it! Feel free to use this technique to get creative and design your own DIY art projects for your home.

Needlefelted DIY Wall ArtSupplies:

  • Felt sheets
  • Wool roving
  • Yarn
  • Needle punch tool
  • Foundation brush
  • White pencil
  • Embroidery floss and needle

Needlefelted DIY Wall Art

Start by drawing or tracing a design onto a sheet of felt with a white pencil. Place the felt on top of a foundation brush which is what you punch into. Then, pull off a few strands of wool roving to begin. A needle punch tool has five special barbed needles inside that work to lock fibers together as you punch straight up and down.

Needlefelted DIY Wall Art

Little by little, keep filling in your design with more strands of wool. You can work with a single color or blend colors just like you’re painting. Tap each strand in with just a few punches at first, to make sure you like it. You can easily pull the wool up off the felt sheet if you change your mind. Once you like it, then punch more to lock it in. Don’t over punch though – or too many of the fibers will disappear beneath the surface.

Needlefelted DIY Wall Art

Above is a picture of what the back side looks like – the needle forces the wool fibers through the felt. Lift your felt up off the brush every so often to reposition and to prevent all the fibers from sticking to the brush itself.

Needlefelted DIY Wall Art

Outline your design in desired with a soft yarn and punch it into place. Accent your design with embroidery. I added an outline stitch in the center of each petal.

Needlefelted DIY Wall Art

Now that your wool canvas has been painted, you have several options for how to display it. You can sew it to a larger felt or fabric panel, frame it inside a shallow shadowbox, or mount it on a wood plaque with a dry adhesive like fabric tape. Enjoy!

 

Comment below and let us know, what design would you make with needlefelting?

AllFreeHolidayCrafts Giveaway: Needle Felting Easter Bunny Kit

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Felting is such a fun way to craft, but it can be seriously difficult if you don’t have the right tools on hand. Thanks to EK Success Brands, felting can be easy for crafters of all skill levels. Celebrate the joy of Easter with the Needle Felting Easter Bunny Kit, it’s an easy way to felt for the holiday. This felting kit from EK Success Brands takes all the difficulty out of felting. The easy-to-follow instructions included in this kit will make felting your own bunny simple. You won’t have to be a long-time felter to make your own Easter Bunny when you have this great product from EK Success Brands!
Needle Felting Easter Bunny Kit

The Needle Felting Easter Bunny Kit comes with everything that you will need to make your own Easter Bunny from 100% wool roving. Included in this kit you will receive a felting needle, embroidery needle, thread, felting molds, stencils, a felting mat, wool roving, and easy-to-follow instructions. Simply follow along with the instructions, and you’ll be felting in no time.

One of the greatest things about the Needle Felting Easter Bunny Kit is that it is reusable, that means you can make a handful of Easter bunnies if you purchase extra wool roving. Make two or three for your close friends or neighbors for great Easter presents. Kids and parents would love one too! These cute bunnies will be the talk of your Easter gathering. You can also use them as holiday home decor for a unique decorating method. This kit is perfect for the holiday, and thanks to the included instructions and materials you’ll have your own felted bunnies in no time at all.

For a little added help, take a look at this great video and learn to make your own felted character using a needle felting kit from EK Success Brands.


AllFreeHolidayCrafts.com is giving away a Needle Felting Easter Bunny Kit  to one lucky winner. You could win!

Learn more and enter to win here.

Contest ends February 19, 2013. You can enter once daily, so return often to improve your chances of winning!

FaveCrafts Giveaway: Felted Feathered Friends

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Sometimes all a wreath or holiday tree needs is a little bird embellishment. A beautiful cardinal or dove can transform an average holiday decoration into something classic and traditional. If you love “putting a bird on it” and decorating your house and home with bird crafts, you’re going to love Felted Feathered Friends, a new book devoted to creating lovely felted birds of all shapes and sizes.

Felted Feathered Friends is a beautiful book filled with patterns to create 20 adorable birds. With superb photography, detailed instructions, and helpful tips and suggestions, Felted Feathered Friends makes a great gift for someone who is new to felting or is looking for inspiration.

 

Wanna win Felted Feathered Friends?

Head on over to the giveaway page and register to win today. You have until December 4th to enter, and you can enter to win once a day…so the more you return, the greater your chances of winning this awesome giveaway! You can also gain additional entries by blogging about this giveaway or talking about it on Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter. Get all the info at the Felted Feathered Friends giveaway page! Good luck!

Project of the Day and Giveaway: Bluebird Pillow

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Welcome to day 20 of our special National Craft Month celebration.  As usual, we’ve got another Project of the Day tutorial and a chance to win another crafty prize! Don’t forget to keep staying tuned in to the blog for more craft tutorials and more chances to win. We’re going to be sharing 11 more projects between now and March 31st, which also means 11 more opportunities for you to enter our craft supply giveaways!

Today I’m really excited to share our Project of the Day, which comes from the fine folks at Dimensions Needlecrafts.

Bluebird Pillow

Spice up your living room by making this adorable needlefelted pillow!  If you’ve never tried needlefelting before, you should beware because it’s incredibly addicting.  It’s also surprisingly easier than it looks!  All you need is some wool roving, a felting needle and you’re ready to create a charming piece of home decor, like this Bluebird Pillow!  Wouldn’t this look adorable in your sitting room?  Let’s learn how to make it!

Materials:

  • Dimensions Needlecrafts Nutmeg Pillow Cover
  • Dimensions Needleworks Wool Felt-Khaki
  • Dimensions Needleworks Wool Felt-White
  • Dimensions Needleworks Wool Roving-Ivory/Nutmeg
  • Dimensions Needleworks Wool Roving-Latte/Mocha
  • Dimensions Needleworks Wool Roving-Butter/Cheddar
  • Dimensions Needleworks Wool Roving-Pastel Blue/Blueberry
  • Dimensions Needleworks Felting Mat
  • Dimensions Needleworks Replaceable Needle Felting Tool
  • Dimensions Needleworks Multi-Needle Felting Tool

Instructions:

  1. Cut out a piece of white flat felt approximately 5″ x 8.5″ and a piece of khaki flat felt approximately 8″ x 12″. Attach the white felt to the khaki using grey yarn and the buttonhole stitch.
  2. Needlefelt the branch with nutmeg roving across the flat felt pieces. Needlefelt the birds across the branch. Needlefelt the four birds across the branch using the photo as a guide. Add the beaks using the burnt orange yarn. Add the seed beads for the eyes. Sew the French knot border using blue yarn.
  3. Attach the completed panel to the pillow cover using brown yarn and buttonhole stitch.

 

And like I mentioned above, don’t forget that we’re giving away a prize every single day of March, right here on the blog for National Craft Month. It’s so easy to enter; just be sure to check back each day for our Project of the Day post like this one to comment to enter! You still have 12 more chances to win and a new special prize each day.

Today’s prize is: $50 worth of Dimensions Needlecrafts goodies!

Prizes include:

  • Happi Owl
  • Red Cell Case
  • Java Coaster/Cozy
  • Blue/Brown Bead Bracelet

 

 

 

 

 

  • Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+
  • One comment/entry per person.
  • Contest closes March 21, 2012 at 11:59p CST.
  • Please answer the question below in order to be entered.
  • Winners will be posted on this blog and notified by email.

Answer this question below in the Comments Section of this post for a chance to be today’s winner:

 

What was your funniest crafting disaster?

 

How to Make Your Own Felt

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There are a lot of different ways of working with felt. The simplest way is to buy felt pre-made from the store and use it as fabric for sewing projects, such as this Felt Carnation Pin. You can also make your own felt from wool roving by doing a process called “wet felting.” This method is explained further in this beautiful Wet Felted Ball Jewelry tutorial and our How to Make Felt guide. Another way to make felt is by washing and drying an old sweater–the heat will fuse the fibers together to make felt! Read all about Felting Wool Sweaters if you’re into upcycling projects!

Needlefelting is a way of pushing wool fibers together with a special type of needle. This process does not require water or heat. Our How to Needle Felt guide has a great explanation of this craft. Basically, you take a piece of wool roving and arrange it over a piece of fabric (perhaps a blouse or a bag that you’d like to embellish?), then place the whole apparatus over a foam block or mat and start rapidly poking at the wool with your needle. You can use templates or stencils to make different shapes. Even cookie cutters would work. (I sense an ugly Christmas sweater project…)

Here’s a great video that will guide you through the needle felting process, from TheCraftsChannel:

You can even make 3-D needle felted projects by shaping the wool into whatever you want to make, or attaching felt to a foam base. This Needle Felted Chick would make a great wedding cake topper, and these Flower Pins are a cute way to dress up a plain outfit.

Keep in mind:

  • The needles used in needle felting are really sharp! Consider protecting your fingers so you don’t poke yourself.
  • If you’re felting in the dryer, you should put your fabric in a mesh bag to avoid a clogged, fiber-filled washer and dryer. Also empty your lint catcher frequently.
  • Try adding a pair of jeans to the load to “agitate” your felt more and get a better result.

Craft Trends: Felting is Hot!

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This ladybug is a cute needle felted project. You can find the instructions to make this charming ladybug at MielkesFarm.com

Almost everyone has at least one memory of working with felt. We bought felt squares to cut up and sew or glue. Finger puppets? Bookmarks? Placemat? Most of us think of felt crafts as kid’s crafts, but felt has come a long way baby!

Now we are making our own felt from wool roving. We needle felt or wet felt all kinds of things! Felt is high fashion. Felt is home décor. Felt is everywhere! Have you added felting to your creative projects yet?

Check out some of these great felting sites:

Woolcrafting
Craftzine Archives
All Fiber Arts
If Nona Knits
Outback Fibers For Kids

Crochet

Jewelry

Knitting

Paper

Sewing

Thrifty