Here’s a fun little project that doesn’t take long–Needle Felting! This involves taking little bits of raw wool, the colored balls you see, and pounding them into a piece of felted wool. You pound on a piece of foam with long needles…you can see these on the left side of the picture. You can create all sorts of images just by shaping the raw wool. If you are a knitter, it is fun to try this with some of your wool yarns. Just unwind the yarn and break it into shorter strands–punch away.
How can I be making a snowman you ask…well Christmas in July of course! This will be a cute little gift topper come wrapping time in December!
I got this as a kit at Willow Wood Market in Bemidji MN.
[...] I loved this project! I had a felted bag that I had made a few years ago that just did not turn out. It was too big for me and I had used a decorative yarn around the top 4 inches and it did not felt the same as the rest of the bag, so I had a very misshapen ugly thing when I was finished. (felting=using 100% wool yarn to knit and then washing/drying it very hot multiple times until you have the shrink that you are looking for. By the time you are done felting you can’t even see your stitches.) I have held on to this bag over the years because I knew it had 2ndlife potential. Well this weekend I pulled it out and made felted bowls with it! I love the results and I am doubly pumped that I was able to reuse a failed project from the past. All I did was cut out a rectangle—sew up one side to make a tube, and then sewed on a bottom circle to make the container. TIP: You can use containers that you already have to get a good idea of your measurements. Then you get to be creative in how you embellish them. The only one pictured that needs some explanation is the polka-dot one. I felted little bits of colored wool onto the bowl using an old kitchen sponge and a big needle. (More directions on this kind of felting here.) [...]