Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals: A Step-By-Step Visual Guide

by Sachiko Susa

Overview

Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals provides detailed instructions to create your own cute and cuddly collection of needle felted pets, barnyard buddies and mascots.

These adorable furry figurines make beautiful gifts and accessories that you can carry around or wear. This DIY needle felting book includes step-by-step instructional color photos and texts that couldn't be easier to follow. It shows you how to make the central shape, attach the components, add the details and then attach the finding. And voila! Your accessory is ready to be worn and appreciated!

The animals you can make include:

• A playful Kitten
• A sweet miniature Dachshund Puppy
• A mommy Pig and her Baby Piglet
• A downy Duck and Ducklings
• A saucy Squirrel
• A friendly Chipmunk
• A pair of adorable White Bunnies
• A trio of brightly-colored Parakeets
• A fairytale Bear
• And a host of other miniature animals and charms

With over 20 charming projects, great techniques and helpful tips, this is a craft book that felting beginners and experts alike will enjoy and treasure. Grab some wool roving and your felting needle and get crafting!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784805314548
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	09/12/2017
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.01(d)

About the Author

Sachiko Susa is a master felter and maker of stuffed toys, specializing in expressive little animals both realistic and novel. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She is the author of It's A Small World Felted Friends. Visit her website at susa3203.com.

Editorial Reviews

"Susa's approach to needle felting will give beginners the know-how to get started, but experienced felters will also appreciate her whimsical designs." —Library Journal

"Novices and experienced needle felters alike will enjoy making these irresistible miniatures." —Booklist

"The photography is large, clear, and focused, and the instructions are broken down so even a beginner like me knows precisely how to go about creating these animals. The best part, by far, is the fact that there are true-to-scale photos in the book of the various parts of the animal, so while you are working on your own version of the animals you can check to make sure you have the size and shape right simply by holding it up to the corresponding part in the book." —Manhattan Book Review

From the Publisher

10/15/2017
Needle felting—a process in which wool roving is punched with a sharp needle and sculpted into shapes—is used to create a menagerie of adorable animals in this collection by expert felter Susa (It's a Small World Felted Friends). Susa begins with two step-by-step lessons (a miniature dachshund and matryoshka bears), walking crafters carefully through the process of sculpting the individual components, then combining and refining the finished piece. For each pattern, Susa provides handy size measurements for the individual elements, which lets crafters know they are on the right track. The designs are best described as realistic/cute, with details that will appeal to children and adults alike. VERDICT Susa's approach to needle felting will give beginners the know-how to get started, but experienced felters will also appreciate her whimsical designs.

Library Journal