Hello everyone! This is my first #NeedleWorkMonday so I'll introduce myself. My name is Bruce and I needle-felt.
I have been needle-felting for almost 5 years. I am lucky enough to live in a small town in central France that hosts a wool festival every year, and a felt festival every two years. We run a bed and breakfast and for these festivals our home is full of wool artists and artisans. 5 years ago one of our guests invited us to do a one day course in wet felting. It was fun, but it didn't grab me. She did mention this thing called dry or needle felting. So I bought a needle and some wool and started poking the wool and creating little creatures.
It wasn't long before I had to start selling them to make room for more!
Felt.Buzz was born.
For those of you unfamiliar with needle felting, it is a method of felting wool using a special needle that has notches or barbs along it's shaft that felt the wool as you poke it! Below is a close up of a needle.
It is repetitive. I know a lot of wet felters who hate it. You can get tools that can hold 6 or 7 needles for bigger work. You need something to poke the needle into (other than your thigh or table!) I use bits of left over felt, but I started with an old cushion.
I don't use any glue, stitches or anything else to hold my creations together it is all felted from 100% wool.
Here is a video of what I made in the last week
I have been making lots of sheep brooches for sale in our local wool shop, and have started a dragon mobile for a child of a friend.
If you create stuff using needles why not join #needleworkmonday and show us what you do!
