Needle Felting - Firmness Test, with Patience from Living Felt

Learn this neat technique for gauging the firmness of your needle felted pieces. People often ask how firm should their needle felting be, and this video gives you a great technique for comparison.
Our little needle felted bear, Patience, demonstrates.

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• needle felted bear
• living felt
• marie spaulding
• felting wool

[liza361]

patience is beautiful =0) I'm new to this but am very interested in learning any suggestion where I can start

[LivingFelt]

@liza361 Yes - we have a complete kit for a little bear, Patience was made from this! Just visit our site livingfelt dot com

[ricepaperbutterfly]

I love Patience, but how do I achieve the firmness or well done!!!

I'm relatively new so I don't understand...thanks a lot for sharing

[LivingFelt]

@ricepaperbutterfly To get a piece that is WELL DONE, start by rolling a tight ball, and needle felt it evenly across the entire surface repeatedly, always poking towards the center point of the ball. This will consistently, and evenly condense the ball (felt it) into a tighter and tighter shape.

[LivingFelt]

@ricepaperbutterfly

It is similar to taking a large ball of clay and rolling it into a tight ball. We do this by continue to roll it and press the air out, compacting the clay in on itself. We do NOT press on one area of the ball and ignore the rest -- our approach is to work the entire surface area.

Needle felting is very much the same, an even condensing of the fibers by further interlocking them and pushing the air out.

[LivingFelt]

@yasmeena142 Hi Yasmeena, we have a full color booklet with over 70 photos that pretty much guarantees success! It has taught thousands how to make their own little teddies...maybe even CUTER than Patience! search Living Felt on Wordpress and see our site LIVINGFELT dot com

[jvisuals]

Hey that's pretty nifty! I'll definitely be trying that out, thank you!

♥

Janine

Foxtail Creek Studio

[sierraandrebekahshow]

ohhhhh my gosh that bear is soooo cute i woulld pay you alot for it lol

[blissfulimagination]

I love that tip, thanks so much! :)