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Needle felt a handmade enchanted forest!20 adorable projects including toadstools, finger puppets, gnomes, fairies, and unicornsBeginner-friendly instructions and a helpful overview of wool, needles, and other required tools and materialsHow to create armatures, the internal foundation on which your sculptures will be builtTechniques and tips for dying, blending, and creating shapes, eyes, and moreCreate your own little world of mystical woodland creatures with the fun and easy craft of needle felting!A great way to make adorable fully dimensional soft sculptures, needle felting uses a long, thin needle which has a series of notches at its tip. When you poke this needle into and out of the wool, those notches tangle the wool fibers together, so as you felt, the wool starts to feel firmer and shrink in size, allowing you to form it into an endless range of shapes and designs.
About the Author
Claudia Marie Lenart is a fiber artist from northern Illinois. She experimented in the arts and handwork since childhood and while pursuing a career as a journalist. She finally found her true muse when she discovered needle felting. Her soft sculpture characters are created by repeatedly poking wool and other natural fibers, like alpaca, with a barbed needle. Claudia pioneered a distinct style of illustrating books using needle felted wool to create illustrations as well as a variety of other techniques including wet felting and pressed wool painting.
