Christmas needle felting ideas

Intro to Needle Felting – Felting Tutorials

Learn to make your own needle felted Christmas ornaments with Gretel Parker's needle-felting tutorial. Felt yours today using the DIY on our blog.

Learn how to "sculpt with wool" by following along with this needle felting tutorial by Felted Sky Studio. Wool featured is our core wool and (exclusive) Bl...

Browse our free needle felting patterns and make yourself some new needle felt Christmas decorations.

Have you ever tried needle felting? Needle felting is pretty like clay, but unlike clay, you need to use a needle instead of your hands to make lovely creations. Best of all, it's a little bit cathartic, and it's perfect for after-work. And compared to other crafts, needle felting is very cheap to try. And needle felting can make a lot of effects that other materials and crafts can't achieve. For example, make almost identical pet sculptures. If you haven't started needle felting, I believe…

you could be crafting beautiful, unique pieces if you just get started! What are the stories you continue to tell yourself about why you can’t needle felt?

Now I don't profess to be an expert on this, but Louise asked if needle felting was hard, so I'm going to show you how I do it. I didn't use an armature on Hyacinth, but I am using one here for this dog. Cut two pieces of pipe cleaner 4" long and one piece 3 1/2" long. Bend them into the shapes shown. It should end up looking like this. See, two leg parts and one head/body/tail part. Now twist the leg parts around the body part. With a few bends in the right places it's already starting to…