Gift to dad, gift to mom

December 8, 2014 Needlework techniques / Felting (Felting) 4 096 0

I propose to make pretty gifts from the remnants of yarn. We will not knit, no. We will do felting, in other words, felting. For felting, you need a needle, but not a simple one, but with notches. A felting needle is able to compact fluffy fiber and give it the density of a real felt. Let's practice on dad's slippers. Amanita mushroom is the most uncomplicated and elegant application. Take a little artificial cotton wool, fluff it and form a mushroom leg on the slipper. To prevent the felting needle from falling into the void, put a sponge under the cloth for washing dishes. There is no special skill here: know yourself poke a needle into a fluffy cloud until it condenses.

We will make the mushroom hat out of any fluffy wool by pulling a silky warp thread from it. Only the fibrous fluff will remain. On the same sponge for dishes that we carefully removed from the slipper, we will form a triangle with rounded edges. We poke the needle before compaction, but leave the workpiece a little fluffy: finally we roll it already on the slipper itself. Then we pile small pieces of white cotton wool onto the hat of our fly agaric!

We try to keep all proportions on the second slipper, therefore we constantly compare the finished work on the finished slipper with the one that is still in the process.

Well, that's it! Congratulations, you did it!

Now, for such masters like us, it does not cost anything to make a brooch as a gift to mom. Let it be a sleeping dog. On a sponge for dishes, we pile a silhouette from sintepon cotton wool, to which we immediately give the pretzel shape, with the back up. Denote the roundness of the hind paw. We poke a needle, condense!

From the suitable wool, we again dump the red spots on the sponge, as in the figure, and roll them to the body of the fox terrier. He is not too much like a dog yet, but with the ears-triangles you can already find out the general shape of a sleeping fox, right?

Let's go back to the sponge and make dark details of dark wool on it: nose, eyelids and specks on the back.

Here it is so cozy and fluffy, our fox.

It remains to attach a clasp to the finished brooch. I have this ordinary pin. I sewed it with thin threads, pulling the needle on the front side in inconspicuous places. The places on the back where the pin was sewn with a thread, I masked with a piece of batting, carefully rolling it to the base.

Well, for those who doubt their abilities, I recommend making a mouse brooch. It’s very simple: a thick and short sausage, to which two round eyelets and a long tail icicle are glued. Glue another bead eyes and a bead nose - here you have the mouse!