Teddy Love

two posts in one day who would have thought! haha well I wanted to show you why I'm getting into teddy bears. This is Teddy Love, he's a sweet little thing, jointed by needle felting no sewing. He has his own little hand created cushion that he uses as a bed and to sit on. I also felted this little heart for him, he's a mixture of wool I used dorset as core wool and then hand blended merino roving together to get this neat texture from him that reminds me of heirloom bears.

Bear giveaway

since I'm getting into bears at the moment I just wanted to share this little give away of a very cute hand made bear. http://bearbits.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-fall-giveaway.html the bear looks really well made and so adorably cute its ridiculous! in a good way of course haha. Good luck to everyone in the give away they always bring the community of craft lovers together.

I have also entered this bear give away http://littleleafbears.blogspot.com/2010/10/blog-giveaway.html and love the name of this blog The little leaf. It's unique and hand made bears too.

I'm also entering this give away here to win a so cute crochet egg http://bouffeebambini.blogspot.com/2010/10/amieggs-giveaway.html I love give aways as you can probably tell

Little lion finger puppet

I am so happy awhile ago I posted that I lost a lion finger puppet that I had made and I was worried that I maybe threw him in the trash but I found him whilst I was doing the house work today so quickly I took this photo of him. His body is wet felted and then his features are all needle felted, isn't he cute? he does look a little pensive but no wonder as I almost threw him away!

Sam the Foxie dog who loves his Christmas tree

This is Sammy and he's very taken by the Christmas tree, The Christmas tree is wet felted over a resist and then I stuffed it with polyfibefill and then layered some wool and felted it closed. Sammy is needle felted in Dorset wool and is a Pure bred Foxie dog.

wool guide for needle felting and wet felting

wool there are so many to choose from and I thought that I would create a guide
that is rated from easiest to hardest. I started origially with merino roving and
that stuff is slippery unless you get a courser type or a mixed breed type. I find
the courser the better as it still gives a nice finish.


Easy beginner wools
Merino cross batting very easy to work with comes in a variety of colors and usually
easy to buy. I bought this from Ebay.



This merino roving is a courser grade and is great for beginner to work on eve though its roving its not as slippery as some finer merino roving you can buy, comes in a huge range of colors and I also bought this lot off an ebay seller who dies
who own wool in eco friendly colors.


Dorset wool
I have been using dorset wool lately and it felts similar to C1 Norwegan
batting and Dorset wool is really good and easy to felt, I'm really loving
it though am finding it somewhat hard to buy as Dorset wool is supposedly
known as a meat breed and not for its wool, supposedly Dorset wool
does not wet felt that easily though from my understanding of it. I have found sellers on Etsy but its not as widely available as others.


Intermediate wool
I find if you scale down on the course side to a softer feel all it is
that it takes longer to felt. It's not that much harder but when you start
on it then it gets easier to work with.

Finer merino roving is available in most colors and people die their own
very easily.



Alpaca wool is normally in batting form, I find it relatively easy to felt
but can have longer fuzzies that you may need to trim. I love the natural un dyed
versions but I also love the fantasy colors people can create when creating their
own battings. Comes available from ebay quite easily.




Advanced wools
I have a small selection of fine fibers that work well for longer haired items
or for decorative purposes.
Camel
is very soft and felts easily and I reccomend using it over core wool

Cashmere
so soft to the touch but hard to start off with again good to work over core wool
and can be found on most sites like ebay but Etsy seems to be a goer for fancy yarns and wool


Baby Camel
is very soft and felts easily and I reccomend using it over core wool and it seems to be quite popular. Its somewhat soft but also very similar to alpaca. Can be found in gourmet wool suppliers on Etsy and other similar sites.



Silk merino mixed wool roving I find this great to use in wet felting projects as well as decorative accents in needle felting as the wool itself is very soft and takes ages to felt. Can be found in a huge range of colors and I have bought this easily off ebay from a lady who dies her own wool.


Tussah silk is very popular and is durable and has a really lovely natural sheen to it in the light. Perfect for hair.


Bamboo fiber
is used in wet felting and needle felting for decorative purposes is widely available over the internet.


this is a basic guide for those who don't know the variety of wool out there, these photos were taken by me from wool in my personal stash. I hope this helps you to gain more knowledge.

wet felted lariat

I've been reasonably busy planning my Christmas ornament I'm making for my currently unknown partner. Felt alives needle felting forum is hosting a swap and its Christmas ornament themed. I'm making something relatively unisex but still something in a little my style and also something that they'll like as I like everyone in the group as I've seen all their work. There are at least 20 people in the swap and partners will be drawn on the 1st of November.

Anyways the long and the short of it I've been playing around and a needle broke, I was so sad because I had one this needle in Kay's felt alive blog give away, I do have the rest of the set of course but it just made me annoyed that this one broke and not one of my store bought ones. I did go and buy another set from her website, and I also splashed out on a new felting pad cause mine is starting to crumble even with the numerous layers of felt on it to try to lengthen its life.

But out of all of this I wet felted this lariat inspired from the book How we felt, I did make it smaller however and in my own true style I did it my way haha I don't embroider but I attempted adding beads in the center of the flower.

The Jolly Golly Wog

I've been a mad felting nut lately lol I created this Jolly golly wog for my fiancee's brother as everytime we walk by the craft store that's near us he's always like oh look their coming back into fashion haha he's 46 so I did this gollywog in muted colors which I think turned out well, he's mainly felted in dorset wool which I'm really loving at the moment but he has accents of merino roving.