Julie King of Montana shared with us her truly fabulous felted art depicting life below, at and above sea level. Wonder ocean scenery and animals have been felted in and accented with bead work. Julie wins a $25 Gift Certificate to Living Felt just for sharing her picture!

 These breathtaking self proclaimed “wool paintings” were wet felted by Pam Bealer of Alaska! This is her precious (late) best friend Gwynlan.

 Pam started off weaving and knitting, which lead to a love of all fiber arts, especially felting! This sunset bear she wet felted is something she says she sees a lot in Alaska. Beautiful detail!

 This satyr, named Buck, she needle felted to bring in the spring season! He is holding a tiny little earth because, “felting makes the world go ’round!”

It sure does Pam!

This magical creature is an Irish Elk (aka Melagolcero), needle felted by Noemi Smith of California. She was inspired by the ones from the movie The Hobbit! Noemi needle felted his body with Living Felt Core Wool, then needle felted over with a combination of colors that you can find in the Living Felt New Zealand Corriedale Kit Pilgrim’s Harvest. This elk is big too, she says, “almost the size of a Maltese!”

Noemi tells us, “I mainly do figurative Art but my other passion is to needle felt and I love to make animals!!”

Well we love your animal and we hope to see many more!

Lucy Brooke of Winthrop, MA and Bluebird Grain Farms  shared this wonderful picture of beautifully felted works of art
by 2nd Graders at Methow Valley Elementary!

A base was started with our Wet Felting Project Batt  and dyed wool placed on top. Inspiring!!

Today we celebrate YOUR creativity and unique expression! You are brilliant, your are unique, and you are special. Just be you — and the world will be a brighter place today.

 By Joyce Hazlerig

www.gypsyharte.etsy.com

Materials

Approx 1 oz of core wool

.30g –.50g of various greens or earth tone wool

Locks, yarn, and sparkle fibers

Felting needles Tri 38 or Tri 40 Mulitools help a lot

First bunch or roll your core fiber into a ball or oval and needle all over. The denser you roll your core the less jabbing you have to do with the felting needles. You want to needle it until it resembles a conch shell. Multitool time! Make its go faster.

 Now shaping the hillside as you wish. Mostly round, with a flat face on one side and needle the bottom flat. Make a front yard area by folding a section of core batt.

Needle it form underneath to attach, now it looks like a melted scoop of ice cream.

Now that we have a hillside its time to landscape it!

 Gather all your green wools and layer them in thin sections, you can card them together if you like or simply layer by hand, either way works. I like to do different colors or textures of wools giving the hillside a mossy look, use a little firestar to add a dewy magical sparkle. This is only a thin layer it doesn’t take much wool. Neelde with a single or double 40 or 38 until all the core is covered. You don’t have to do the bottom, less you want to. I like to make my underneath earthy brown, like dirt. An alternate hillside, make one face very flat and fill in with earthtone wool for a cut away gnome home.

Detail time. Use a single felting needle and gather some mohair locks and fold in half about three short locks and needle at the fold into a section of the hillside. You can even “plant” the lock bush by adding a little green wool into the middle for security.

 Add yarn foliage the same way. Next make a window!

 Just a little wisp of yellow or white wool. Needled into the hill, do it firmly so that it is recessed. Then add a cross pane and frame.

 Add a Door with a bit of brown wool or any color you want your door. I framed the door with another darker brown. And then added lines and a knob. Here’s a red round door on a different Gnomehome.

 Add details! Novelty eyelash yarn needle felts into grass and paths.

 Mushrooms and toadstools provide a chimneystack for your gnome. Just felt a stem from brown or white wool and felt a cone shape and attach together. An easy mushroom is to felt a dense ball and then cut it in half to form two mushroom caps. Outline paths and add stones or little lakes. The possibilities are endless! Now you have your own secret world!

These amazing creations were made by Vera Runova of Minnesota! Originally from Kazakhstan, Vera was familiar with wet felting the traditional Kazakh “yurtas.” She said, “I never thought that felt could be amazingly light, beautiful, bright colored and be putty in your hands.” We couldn’t agree more Vera!

In all these creations, Vera wet felts her base, then needle felts the finishing touches to give panache.

This beautiful poppy was wet felted with Living Felt New Zealand Pack Spanish Fiesta. The detail is just amazing!

Vera is new to felting but you would never be able to tell! Her wonderful creations are an inspiration to us all!

Thank you Vera for sharing your wonderful and amazing felted projects!

Vera uses a lot of merino top in her projects, and you can try the Living Felt kit for Wet Felting Flowers to make your own!

These felted wall hangings by Brenda Milligan are fabulous! The background is wet felted, then she needle felts the picture on to them. The texture in this little gnome home is just exquisite! The colors remind me of Living Felt Merino Cross Scenic Vista pack.

The flowers on this vine were wet felted, then Brenda, who lives in Vermont and has been a long time Living Felt customer, needle felted them to the background. She embroidered the stems and flowers to, “make the path stand out.” Looking at it is such a Blue Delight!

Brenda’s inspiration comes from a love of gnomes and country gardens- you can tell she has a garden of her own based on the lovely detail in this mushroom house! The mushroom, Brenda tells us, is actually knitted first and then she needle felted it to her background. Here she has created a little Fairy Hollow  of her own!

Thank you for sharing your amazing creations with us Brenda! We hope to see more soon! :)

Look at these cute dolls needle felted by Californian Marilyn Ting! They are inspired from her favorite artist, Mackenzie Thorpe. You can’t tell she has only been felting since March! According to her she “has been hooked”!

This doll is made from New Zealand Corriedale black, white, and red.

This cute little monster was her first ever creation! It is made from New Zealand Corriedale Natural Medium, black, and white.

Keep on felting Marilyn, you are on a roll!

Catherine and Catie

“I have had such fun working with the wool that you sent me! Here is a little doll and her kitty, Catherine and Catie, named after my mother and the dress designed after the one my mother wore in a picture taken in 1914. I used wool from the goody pack as well as the core wool,and the colors linen, mocha, and onyx MC-1 batting. These wools were really great for needle felting and I am looking forward to using more of Living Felt wool! Thank you, again, ladies!”

Regards, Karen Jones, Texas