Complete Starter Guide to Needle Felting: Enchanted Forest: Fairies, Gnomes, Unicorns, and Other Woodland Friends (Landauer) Beginner-Friendly Instructions for Making Felt Animals and More

Gather Your Materials

Explore the variety of wool to use, from sheep to alpaca, and learn their lengths and thicknesses, choose from processed wool like core wool, top wool, and locks or curls (pictured), then explore options for surfaces like foam and wool felting pads, the needles and holders needed, and other supplies.

Create Shapes with Wool

Learn the basic felting techniques, and how making shapes can easily create desired objects, like forming spheres (pictured), making wire-based structures, rolling wool to create thin lines and details, and more.

Dyeing and Blending Wool

See how to dye wool using acid dyes, how to measure the amounts correctly, and learn tips to help your colors and tones really pop! Then, learn how to create custom colors by blending different fibers (pictured) to achieve unique textures and colors for animal fur, hair, and clothing.

• Cookie Cutter Spring Gnome Garland
• Mushroom Family on a Mossy Hill
• Felted Pine Trees (pictured)
• Felted Flowers

• Flower Meadow Wool Scene
• Woodland Friend Finger Puppets
• Happy Gnome
• White Rabbit (pictured)

• Tiny Bluebird and Cloud
• Forest Babies
• Woodland Fairies (pictured)
• Spring Robin with Nest and Eggs
• Unicorn Foal