When do I stop stabbing? Needle Felting for Beginners
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- In this tutorial I show you how you can tell when to stop needle felting your wool and how to know whether you’ve felted it firm enough, especially helpful if you're a beginner to needle felting.
I'll show you the firmness of my felted items and I test whether the type of core wool and needle felting needles you use has an effect on how quickly the wool gets firm. It produces some very interesting results that I hadn’t predicted.
This will be helpful for beginners to needle felting but also those of us who have been felting a bit longer and are curious about the effect of fine needles and thick needles on coarse carded wool versus merino tops or roving wool.
I hope you find it useful.
If you do find it helpful it would mean the world to me if you’d click on the like button.
Here’s the link to the 5 tips on Needle Felting Shapes Accurately video that I mention at the end:
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Chapters or Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Testing different wools and needles
2:43 How I gauge if my item is felted enough
4:29 Which combination of wool and needles will felt easiest & quickest?
5:30 The results are in
6:33 How smooth is the finish?
7:00 What did I learn from this experiment?
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Your videos are fantastic! I'm a brand new felter and find these comparison videos extremely helpful. All of the types of wool and needles are overwhelming to newbies, so the guidance you provide is invaluable.
Aw thank you so much, that's really helpful feedback, really appreciate it, thank you for your lovely comments and thanks for watching
omg I can't believe you have less than a thousand followers right now! I thought I was watching a seasoned youtube veteran! For realsies, your editing is great, your angles are fantastic, and your voiceover is awesome! I'd follow you on Instagram if you have one! You also do explain and demonstrate things really well and I can't wait to start my own needlefelting! Yay!
Aw thank you so much for these lovely comments, glad you liked my video, I'm trying to improve my skills each time I make a video so it's really lovely to hear this feedback 😊 I do have an Instagram account, it's @julies_felted_friends but I need to post more often, there's never enough hours in the day! Would be lovely to see you on there though. Hope you enjoy needle felting 😁
And this is why I love your videos! Taking a scientific approach to needle felting hasn't really been done before and it's great to have some quantifiable, objective measure to use when following tutorials. This finally answers the question of how firm firm is. And explains why I sometimes get sore muscles after a stabbing marathon. 😀 Also loved the 'Great British Stab Off' name, I found it quite fitting! 😄
Aww AC thank you so much for taking the time to write this lovely feedback, I'm so glad you've found this helpful, I wasn't sure if it is just me that was curious about the combinations of needles and types of wool 😊 it's good to know it's not just me 😁 glad you liked the great British Stab off, I have an idea for a second round, but we'll have to see 🙂 thanks again x
These videos are so nice to watch. I'm probably not going to start felting for a long time since I'm already juggling too many things, but I love learning about the process from this channel. Everything is broken down into nice simple steps and I really appreciate the data used to get accurate results for each method.
As an artist, I definitely understand how hard it can be to translate the process of making art into something more scientific or technical. I think that tutorials like this are incredibly valuable because it makes art more accessible for beginners. The artist, crafter, and maker community is so much better when more people are able to join in. 💜
Aw thank you so much for your lovely comments, I hope at some point you find time to start felting. I think it's so hard for a complete beginner to know how long to stab for, that's why I wanted to make this video, thank you for appreciating it 😊 I completely agree with you, I'd love to help make the artist, crafter, maker community larger.
I'm all in...! I so much enjoy your videos. So well done and a cheeky humor that makes me laugh really hard. My wife keeps glancing at me wondering what I'm up to. Soon I'll start felting little fun characters just for fun. "The Great British Stab Off" 🤣 how perfectly appropriate.!
Thank you so much for your lovely comments, glad you liked my humour 😁 I hope you have fun needle felting little fun characters 👍 I really appreciate comments like this, it spurs me on to make more videos, thanks again
Thank you so much for this! I'm on my second critter now and I need some wool for a polar bear and I had no idea what to get or where to get it from without spending too much on a new hobby. Core wool, carded, then I'll get the top colors. Happy stabbing to you!
Glad you've found it helpful, happy felting, thanks for watching
I’m new to felting. Thank you so very, very much for all of the information your videos show. 😊😃🥰🇨🇦
You're very welcome, thank you for watching and commenting, welcome to this lovely fun craft 😊😁
Thes videos are reaaaaly good.
Aw thank you, that's very kind, thanks for watching
Thanks for this, was having trouble figuring out the best needles to use for different situations
Glad it helped, thanks for the feedback 🙂
Very helpful. Thank you.
Glad you found it useful 🙂
I love your videos. So informative!!!
Aw thank you, glad you find them helpful 😊
I opened up one of my pillows and stabbed using a yarn needle and even after 4 hours I got nothing
I'm sorry but a yarn needle will not work, you need to buy a special needle felting needle which has barbs down the sides to catch the wool. Please see the links in the description of the videos to where you can buy them. Thanks for watching
Thanks for another great video! I have a question…. Is there a point where there’s been too much stabbing and thereby causing one to be unable to add another color, or attach legs or eyes etc? In other words, one has over-felted and cannot felt into the shape
To be honest with you Sherry I've never reached that point myself, mainly because it would take an awful lot of stabbing, but I believe the wool would get very hard/firm which might make attaching legs or arms difficult, as there wouldn't be much unfelted strands of wool in the body for the legs/arms to knit to. Also I would think you could reach a point where you can't shape the wool you've stabbed anymore, but I would have thought you could still attach more wool to shape it as long as you were attaching the new wool to a large area, i.e. More chance of it gripping the base/body. The same with other coloured wool/eyes. Have you had experience of this? I'd love to hear about it if you have, or perhaps it's something you'd like me to test out?
@@juliesfeltedfriends sometimes I have difficulty attaching the final touches - most recently I did a kitten and had a hard time attaching the little foot pads on the bottom of the feet. It could be that because it’s such a small area that I over felted. I have never had it happen with larger areas.
Oh I see, it does sound like the feet were a little solidly felted, and/or the pads that you were attaching were too felted before you attached them? I try to leave a bit of wool unfelted on anything I'm attaching so that it acts as a kind of wool glue 😊 and gives you something to felt into the object, hope this helps, I might experiment with this and see if I can replicate this if you'd find that helpful?
@@juliesfeltedfriends that would be great. So much to learn. I’ve been felting a couple years, but not consistently…. My garden takes all my time in the warmer months… so any and all advice is always welcome!
I know what you mean it's hard to fit needle felting in sometimes 😊 leave it with me 🙂
I'm a level 0 beginner and I just recently got interested in felting.
I saw some people making a ball, felting it and putting around some more wool and felting it. Why do they do that, except for having a bigger ball?
Hi there, it could be that they wanted to make the ball larger, or they wanted to change the shape and not have an exact ball shape, you can always add more wool to create whatever shape you can imagine 😊 one of the many reasons why I love needle felting 🙂 Also it could be they were making a large project and it is sometimes easier to build up layers in this way to make a large ball than trying to roll up and stab a huge amount of wool at the start, hope this helps. Good luck with your felting 😁
@@juliesfeltedfriends thank you very much for the detailed explanation ~
I'm still new to this and don't know much so every bit of information helps :D