New Buddy! Mr. Dragon~ Enjoy the sunset

 Have you ever seen the beautiful sunset at San Francisco Ocean Beach? Our new buddy Mr. Dragon just enjoyed his wonderful afternoon over there. Want to know more Mr. Dragon's trips in SF? Keep your eye on coming posts! You will find out he's never a dragon, trust me!

Wool or Woolen Yarn?

               

    It's a hot question for a beginner to ask. What kind of wool I need? Wool or Woolen Yarn? Actually if you see the finished cute buddies, you will know the answer. Woolen yarn is another format of tightened wool, you can hardly change the shape of it. But if you want it to be a part of decoration for your wool buddies, that's terrific! However, when you need a soft, cute and fatty wool buddy, colored wool is the only and best choice. 

     Colored wool is a wonderful material, which allows you present your subject with more choices of creation. We will talk about how important it is next week.

  

2 Minutes To Learn To Make A Wool Penguin

Come on, let's do it for real. This is my home-made video, hope you will like it.

Comments are welcomed.

The Secret of Felting Needles

Almost every beginner will ask the same question-- how the wool get tightened buy such a needle?How? I was one of them to ask this question. I guessed the needle must be so special.

Of course, a ordinary needle cannot make it, because it is too smooth to hold the wool and make it tighter. Hence, when I found the barbs on the blade, I felt like I got everything I want! Well, the direction of those barbs on the picture are toward the point. If you see that, you will easily understand why it drags wool into each other when you stab it in the penguin "body" and why it doesn't drag wool when taken out from the "body".

With this magic tool, we can make everything we want! The only difference is the times that you jabbing it. Normally, thousands of times are needed to uniform and even the surface of the wool since keep the consistence it so important for this art.

First Try! Make A Wool Penguin In 5 Steps!

Today you will learn how to make a wool penguin in five steps.

The material you will need is white, black, gray and yellow wool.

You will also need a piece of foam and felting needles.

Step 1:  scroll the white wool, then use the felting needles to tighten it till it like an egg.

Step 2: use gray wool covering half of the egg to make its body area; use black wool to cover the other half as its head area, and then tighten it.

Step 3: use small amount of white wool to make two rounded areas…

Be sure to tighten then into quarter-sized rounds.

Use a little white wool to connect the bottom of two round areas.

Step 4: rub a tiny amount of black wool and poke it into the center of each eye area. Tiny eyes will be cute.

The last step: roll the yellow wool into a pea sized mouth for your penguin. Then poke it to the center of the connected position of the eye area.

Now your wool penguin is done! 

So exciting right? Next time, I will tell you the secret of the magic tool -- felting needle.

Make A Wool Buddy！