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Annie & Lyn

Hello Ann
Thank you for your kind comments about our blog and we hope that lots of people are inspired to try felting as it's a great hobby and so easy to learn.
With regard to your question, we hope this makes sense:

Wool fibres entangle when you agitate them and that's how felt is made - felt is a non-woven fabric.

Needle Felting is a dry form of felting. The wool fibres are entangled together by using a barbed needle. As the needle is pushed in and pulled out of wool fibres, they tangle together i.e. felt.
You can use just one needle or buy holders so that you can use several needles at once or you can use an embellishing machine (it's like a sewing machine but has felting needles in the place of a sewing needle).

Needle felting is mostly used to decorate or make small items, but it's possible to make a sheet of felt with a needle (if you have enough patience!).

If you look at our penguin, it's a wet-felted background with the penguin needle-felted onto it once it was dry.

Commercial felt is made by needle felting but of course it's done by huge machines with needle beds.

If you look on youtube, you can see people needle-felting - here's just one example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdGCiu7Tzk

Happy Felting!

Ann Avedian

Love your blog - really inspirational for a beginner felter like me! Not sure what needle felting is tho - can you explain?
Ann Avedian

Carole Wynn-Jones

Hi. I love your beautiful felted items and would love to have a go myself. What exactly is merino wool'top roving?'
Carole
ps I just bought some coloured scrim from you and can't wait to get going with that as well.

june edwards

Oh thankyou so much what a brilliant tutorial it was so easy to follow, i've just bought an embellisher machine so any advice is greatly apprieciated.
june edwards

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