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 Needle Felting Basics | What you will Need

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 Needle Felting Basics | What is Needle Felting?

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 Needle Felting Basics | History of Needle Felting

History of Needle Felting

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 Needle Felting Basics | Wool

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 Needle Felting Basics | Wool

Shearing

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 Needle Felting Basics | Helpful Terms

Wool Terms
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● is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a

continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing such as spinning into yarn or felting.
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● long, coarse hair forming an animal's outer fur. Some sheep have guard hair that is
course and doesn’t felt. Some of the wool will be downy soft and super to work with but guard hairs will
be woven throughout making it irritating to felt with.

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Needle
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● If a number on a felting needle is lower (32 and 36), this means that there are more barbs
on that needle. When you have a larger amount of barbs on a needle this will start grabbing at lots of fiber
and you will have less control over what is being felted. If a number on a felting needle is higher (40 and 42)
this means that there are fewer barbs on that needle. Having fewer barbs on your needles will give you more
control over what’s being felted, and can be very useful when it comes to smoothing a surface and doing
tiny details
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 Needle Felting Basics | Needle Felting

Ready to Needle Felt

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 About the Author

Teresa Perleberg

Needle Felting Artist and Shepherd

Teresa lives on a farm in North Dakota with her husband and 4 children where they raise sheep, cattle and
chickens.

www.BearCreekFelting.com

Teresa Perleberg is a needle felting artist, Shepherd, and homeschooling mom. She has work appearing in
North Dakota Living, Better Homes and Gardens, Mary Jane’s Farm, Sheep, Australia’s Homespun
magazine and the UK’s Cross Stitchers magazine, Artistry in Fiber: Sculpture by Anne Lee and E. Ashley
Rooney July 2017. When she’s not needle felting she’s most likely taking care of her flock of over 60
sheep or learning along with her children. You can visit her at www.BearCreekFelting.com.