Needle felting techniques

Needle felting

For the first installment of my Felting Fridays post, we're going to go over everything there is to know about felting needles.

The portraits made by the artist Dani Ives seem to carry several brush strokes of ink but are incredibly produced only with wool and needle. The artist's needle-felted pieces are made with great precision and richness of details.

Follow our basic felting directions and see five home projects you can make using this fun felting technique (we even include free patterns!).

Learn Painting with Wool techniques and create beautiful needle felted fiber art! Online course with lifetime access, seven full projects to make (including this lovely landscape), and lessons that will enhance your needle felting skills and boost your confidence in art-making. Use these needle felting tutorials to level up your fiber art.

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Grasping the concept of felting, the process of meshing fibers together to create felt, isn’t too difficult, and in fact, felting can be a fantastic creative outlet and hobby. When you begin to explore some of the lesser-known techniques, however, things can start to get a little confusing. What’s the difference between wet felting and nuno felting?