Needle Felting Needles Explained A Guide for Beginners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- I explain and test which type and gauge of needle felting needle to use in different situations. If you're a beginner to needle felting this explanation of the different types of needle felting needles will show you when to use a triangle, star, twisted/spiral and crown needle felting needles.
This video was kindly sponsored by Heidifeathers, www.heidifeathers.com, who are a great supplier of needle felting needles but also supply everything you need for needle felting, including the clover multi needle holder that I use regularly.
Plus Heidifeathers is offering a 10% discount to the first 25 customers using the code Feltedfriends on their website here:
www.heidifeathers.com/
Link to the Ultimate Mix of Needle Felting Needles: www.heidifeathers.com/ourshop...
Link to the Felting Mat: www.heidifeathers.com/ourshop...
They are based in the UK but are happy to despatch orders internationally.
They can also be found on Amazon, here’s a link to their Ultimate Mix of needles on Amazon UK which contains all the needles I used in this video:
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Here’s the link on Amazon UK to the Heidifeathers mat I was using throughout the video:
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Please note I am an Amazon Associate which means I may earn a very small commission if you purchase any of these items from the above links, this does not cost you anymore. I'd be very grateful if you can support my channel in this way.
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My Downloadable PDF’s giving tips on adding details and tips on needle felting faces can be found here in my Etsy shop:
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Here are some of my other needle felting tutorials that you might like:
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Chapters or Timestamps:
0:00 Which Needle Felting Needles I’ll talk about
1:11 Stage 1: Shaping & Gauges
2:53 Which needle should you start with?
5:47 Needle felting nerd time!
7:10 Stage 2: Smooth Finish
8:43 Stage 3: Attaching
9:40 Stage 4: Thin Layer of Colour
10:22 Stage 5: Long Fur
10:16 Stage 6: Reverse Felting
13:11 Finishing off the dogs
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Your voice/accent is unique (to me at least) but it’s very soothing to listen to!
Aw thank you, tbh I've never liked listening to myself, but glad you find it soothing 😊
@@juliesfeltedfriends well that’s fair, I feel like most people don’t like hearing their own voices haha. Myself included tbh!
But you’re welcome! You actually kinda remind me of a certain Japanese voice actor but if they spoke English instead.
Finally, a thorough and comprehensive video that has all my questions answered and to the point. Cute and cheeky also! 🥰 Thank you!
Aw thank you for this, glad you liked the video ☺️ thanks for watching
I absolutely loved this video. Your voice is so nice and relaxing. I found the video cute and funny. On top of all of the fun, I definitely learned lots!
Aw thank you for your lovely comments, glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful, thanks for watching
Thank you for doing this video, I got the mat and the needles for Christmas, so this is really helpful. I usually use reverse needles for rabbit tails, and fluff details, so it was good to see the overall effect.
Thanks for your comments, yes I really liked the mat and the reverse needles were fun to use, I can imagine they're good for rabbit tails, thanks for that and thanks for watching
Being fairly new to felting, I bought a variety of needles. I've been experimenting myself with different needles. One I don't own is a star/twist. Sounds interesting and a good all around needle. I've done many of the kits and have enjoyed the process. My husband and I transport wildlife to a local clinic and I'm working on making felted animals of those we've transported....learning new skills along the way.
Thanks for this, yes the star twisted needle was really nice to use, glad you're enjoying needle felting, it's such a fun craft. Love that you are making felted versions of the animals you've helped, thanks for watching
This is just what I needed! I've only watched a few videos from this channel but I already fell in love with it! such a funny and lovely content, keep going 😊
Aw thank you for this, it's so lovely getting comments like this and to hear that you like the content, thanks for watching ☺️
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Just bought it! I’m new to felting. This is my third day. First day I bought wool from Walmart out of all places with a needle they did not mention what size is. I started with just punching on cloth then trying to make a square. After I made two I tried blending the two colors in between. I a little harder than expected. Second day I made a small red chili 🌶️ that people recognize. Honestly it was so pose to start off as an Apple but started to take an odd shape and went with it. Day three was just trying to make a cube look perfectly square and realized due to the brown wool looked a lot like a crouton so now I have a motive. End of day three I felted 5 green abstract thin flat shapes to take place of leafs for a salad I’m building. I’ll probably add two more croutons, maybe two pieces of white chicken and ended with thin strips of shredded white cheese and place it in a bowl for a nice Caesar salad look.
Thank you for this, it's lovely to hear your progression, sounds like you're needle felting yourself a lovely meal 😊 hope you're enjoying it and happy felting, thanks for watching
@@juliesfeltedfriends P.S. yesterday I found my crouton under the couch thinking I dropped it. Today I realized my cat was having fun with my crouton! I guess now I should realized this might be the equivalent of a ball of wool yarn 🧶 😅 guess I can make him a toy or two out of wool.
😂 yes cats and pets do tend to like playing with your felted items 😊 yes you might want to make him a toy and keep your other felted items out of reach as they can pull them apart if you're not careful 🙂 hope you don't lose any more croutons 😁
I love your videos❤ Just starting this craft. Love all the nerdy suff😅
Aw thanks, glad you like the nerdy stuff 😁 thanks for watching
I'll start this by saying Thank you, and here's why...
I really enjoy learning what I'd consider to be esoteric skills, be they craft related or not. An inherent hurdle in collecting such skills, is finding more experienced people to ask questions. Most commonly, I end up finding tips and tricks videos on TH-cam, but they're several years old. And the channel itself hasn't posted in over a year. Imagine my surprise when I see your channel is dedicated to felting, posts fairly consistently, and it being very informative.
Wow thank you for this, glad you like the videos and find them informative. It can be hard work making them and time consuming, so it's always nice when I get lovely feedback like this. Thanks for watching.
I have that Clover needle felting pen too and I love it! Thanks for this video on the different needles, I have a nice starter set from Heidifeathers and it helps to see examples of how they can be used to best effect.
Yes the clover multi needle tool pen is really helpful isn't it. I believe the starter set from Heidifeathers is very good, glad you found this video helpful, thanks for watching.
Thank you for such an informative video!! My first felted project was a bird and it actually turned out to look like a bird! It was really cute, until my dog got hold of it. My bird will need surgery. I really needed this info on needles so thank you very much!!! 😊
Aw thank you for this, glad you found it helpful, well done on your first project, what a shame that your dog got hold of it, I hope you manage to fix your felted bird 😊 thanks for watching
this was such a lovely watch! thank you >v
Aw thanks, glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching
Amazing Video thank you for sharing xxx I really like Hidi feathers needles too I use the triangle ones
Aw thank you, glad you liked the video, yes I find that they are good quality. Thanks for watching
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The needles from my kit are an upgrade from the barebones foam mat w/2 basic needles I started with because they’re multiple sizes/multiple of each(36, 38, 40, 42 G stars) but I guess if I really want to upgrade my tool kit it’s time to buy an assorted needle pack!
Sounds like you have a good variety of gauges now, but yes you might want to try some of the other types/shapes of needle as well. The reverse needle was fun to use too 😊 happy felting and thanks for watching
So glad I found your videos. Definitely will be subscribing!! I’m still confused about all the different needles but hopefully I can learn them. I’m a newbie & bought a few sets from Temu & I’m hoping they’re good quality. Gonna attempt to do a Capybara 1st 😊
Aw thanks for this, there are a lot of different needles to get your head around, I hope this video helped a bit, but try not to worry too much, I'd encourage you to just have a play with the different needles you have already bought and see what works for you. Please bear in mind though that the quality of needles can vary, I have some needles that I bought off Amazon that came in a set, rather than from a specialist craft shop, and they don't felt as easily, I show and talk about these other needles in this video about a multi needle tool holder here: th-cam.com/video/JGOOnYwU_AI/w-d-xo.html
I hope you have fun felting a Capybara and thanks for watching
Loved this - I have the same pack of needles so it was great to see this. Thank you. I used the reverse needle to make a hedgehog (i.e. pulling white fur from under brown to give the effect of spines) and it worked well (tho my first hedgehog was re-purposed after my husband asked if it was a bison). In future videos I'd like to know what you use to de-fluff your mats. And where do you buy all the different types of mats or do you use other household objects as mats? In desperation for a mat one day, I used a sort of sponge designed to clean the chain of a bike (it was my husband's - so maybe his "bison" comment was born out of bitterness 🤭)
Aw thank you for this, I love your idea of using the reverse needle to make the hedgehogs spines 👍 I have a lint remover I bought online, a hand held love that helps to get wool left behind of the mat. I have also used a car sponge as a mat in the past before I bought one 😊 don't worry we've all had our felted items mistaken for something else 😁 happy felting and thanks for watching
Another great video! I always learn so much from your content.
Aw thank you for this lovely comment, glad you found it helpful, thanks for watching
Incredibly informative. Thank you so much!
Aw thank you, so glad you found it interesting, thanks for watching
Thank you for this! I'm picking up new needles soon.
I have a request, I'd like to do a smooth gradient between colors and I have no idea how to do that, can you sneak that into a short or a "felting skills" video? I'd like to make a little hampster with brown on his back and a white belly and I could do a hard line but if I wanted a gradient, how would I do that?
I just thought I'd ask in case you wanted any ideas for the channel, but I'm sure you're very busy so no stress from me!
My next long tutorial on needle felting a dog is going to briefly look at blending patches of different colours, so that might help a bit. However I was planning to felt a hamster with long fur but I'm not sure that's what you're after, I'm also planning a 2d picture where I'll be creating a gradient of colours, so that might be more helpful 😊 I'm always very happy to hear what you guys want to see me do, so thank you for this, and thanks for watching
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