ANIMAL LOVERS, HAVE WE GOT A ZOO OF WILD NEEDLE FELT PROJECT IDEAS FOR YOU!

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with sea life, adorable birdies and woodland creatures inside!

FELT FAUNA

FISH OUT OF WATER

This adorable fishy is out of water all right…and ready to stake his claim.

To make your own indoor plant stake, needle felt orange roving around a foam

ball. Then cut a tail and fins out of sheets of felted roving and needle felt them onto the

body. Add scales, eyes and a mouth, and then insert the dowel rod into the body.

THE CAT’S MEOW

Here’s the 1, 2, 3 on this purrfectly adorable plant stake:1. Cut a chenille stem in half,

and wrap one half around an uncut chenille stem about 3” from one end—this makes the front legs.

2. Wrap the other half about 2 ½” away to create the back legs. The ends will form the neck and tail.

3. Wrap the core of the body and the limbs with cream roving until it’s about 1” in diameter, needle felting to secure.

4. Wrap the entire body in white roving, forming the legs and body as you work. Add gray roving down the back and tail.

5. For the head, wrap cream roving around the dowel rod and needle felt it into a square. Then wrap white

roving around it, adding gray accents as desired. Remove from dowel rod.

6. For the ears, cut triangles from a sheet of felted roving. Needle felt them to the head.

7. Needle felt pink roving onto the head for the nose.

8. Sew on seed beads for the eyes.

9. Without breaking the thread, sew the head onto the body.

10. Insert the dowel rod.

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FEELING BLUE

Your garden will hum with activity when you give this blue beauty a place of honor

among your plants. For the body, needle felt roving onto a foam rectangle. Add

decorative markings with coordinating roving. Form the wings and tail around

chenille stems. Felt roving onto the stems, and poke the ends of the stems into the

body. Then attach seed beads for eyes. For decoration, cut lengths of ribbon and

needle felt them under the tail. Then paint a dowel rod and a toothpick (beak) and

insert them into place.

IT’S EASY BEING

GREEN

Make this dashing frog by first needle felting green roving around a foam ball. About halfway down the ball, felt on some white roving for the mouth. Then add white roving—accented with black—for the eyes. Cut the arms and legs from sheets of felt, and needle felt them to the body. Use black roving for your frog’s jaunty top hat. Finish off his dapper outfit by cutting a bowtie from a sheet of felted roving and needle felting it onto the chest. Then insert the dowel rod into the body, and let him mix and mingle with your potted plants.

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WISE GUYStake this flyboy in your favorite potted plant, and watch the cuteness grow! Wrap some roving tightly around a dowel to start—that will be the core of the body. Then slide it off, and add more roving until you’ve made the shape you want, needling lightly as you work. Add the details—tufts, adorable eyes, beak and feet—and pop the whole thing back on the rod when you’re done.

HIGH ON THE HEDGEHOG

Landlord says “No Pets”? Need to liven up your cubicle? Love all things four-legged and furry? Then you need this adorable needle-felted hedgehog! Start by felting tan wool roving into the hedgehog’s body, forming a cone at one end for his head. Then add on brown roving for the back and nose. Form the feet, ears and tail, and felt them onto the body. Finish off your cute lil’ buddy with seed bead eyes and French knot accents on his back.