Faster And More Comfortable Than Ever!

      Remember the secret tool for felting? Yes, felting needles. It usually take me 15~20 minutes to felt an egg sized wool penguin by using only two felting needles. In fact, it takes fewer minutes if I use handheld needle felting tool with multiple needles! Why? Because it's more comfortable and faster. Just like the wooden handled tools in the above picture. However, you have to know it is impossible to use the multiple needle tool from the beginning to the end unless you are felting a wool pat. The truth is you need both multiple needle tool the and single one every time, because what you are felting is vivid animals that has subtle characters needs to be done by single felting only. For example, the eyes and mouth of the penguin. The less needles you use, the more elaborate for targeting a certain small part of your work. 
      Multiple needles tool isn't necessary for every work, but  it will definitely save your time when doing less detailed work on a larger surface of the buddy. For instance, it takes only 5 minutes to create a body base for your penguin, yet takes more than 10 minutes when you use single or 2 needles. So, trust me, you will certainly love it when you deal with something bigger.

    

Recommendation Of The Felting Book!

      

There are so many felting books in the market, and if you are a very beginner, you might get lost in those various books or waste a lot of time on picking the best one. WOOLBUDDIES (20 Irresistibly simple needle felting projects) is the one I want to recommend at here, it's written by Jackie Huang. It introduces from raw materials and tools to challenging wool buddies.  It's a wonderful choice for beginners! Actually, it still can be an inspirational book if you are an ace of felting. 

Although everyone may has a different taste, the book above is favorite one for making wool animals or pets.  It's up to you, some people just like buddies with true-life looking. But for me, this book is totally my style. In other words, I love my buddies look cute and, to some extent, awkward and stupid. Why? For two reason. I want them creative and reflect their cutest side from our heart within. And, they are made for relaxing our mind. For my own experience, they make me feel relaxed and so happy when every time I completed one of them. If you keep following me, you will find my buddies will keep cute, stupid and creative. Ahaha~~

You can easily new one or used book from Amazon, which allows you to preview some pages of it. Check it out first, then you will decide weather you like it. 

    

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.

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