30 Needle Felted Animals to Make and Love... Craft a menagerie of miniature animals from simple materials!
Author Makiko Arai’s easy felting techniques are perfect for beginners or anyone who enjoys a relaxing handcraft. With a little wool roving and a felting needle in hand, you’ll get step-by-step instructions to make 30 fuzzy friends, with a focus on shaping, color, and texture. Sculpt wire structures for stability, finish faces with lifelike expressions, and turn your creations into adorable pins you can take anywhere! From palm-size pups and curious cats to bunnies, deer, squirrels, and more, it’s time to let your imagination run wild!
- Feel all the fuzzies! Everything you need to know to make 30 wool felted friends
- Get cozy with basic needle felting techniques, tools, and how-tos
- From bears to bunnies—Follow step-by-step instructions for every animal
Projects include:
- brooch buddies
- a trio of chatty birds
- a friendly rabbit
- a shy squirrel
- a donkey marching to the beat of his own drum
- a hungry hedgehog
- a cockatiel with rosy cheecks
- a playful striped kitten
- doggy friends - poodle & shiba inu
- sheep brothers
- a family of deer in the summer
- talkative polar bears
- bear cubs who want to grow big and strong
- an elephant learning how to use her trunk
- giraffes in the sun
