Mini Needle Felted Dog
Introduction: Mini Needle Felted Dog
This instructable will teach you how to make a fuzzy mini felted dog :)
Supplies
❀ Felting Needle
❀ Felting Mat
❀ Needlefelt wool (For mine, I used yellow for the fur, white for the chest, black for the eyes/nose and pink for the scarf)
Step 1: Make the Basic Shape of the Head
Take a tuft of needlefelt in the primary colour of your felted dog. Poke the needlefelt on the mat with the needle while rotating it regularly until it becomes a stiff ball.
Step 2: Make the Body
Repeat what you did in Step 1 (felting a ball) with two slightly smaller pieces of wool. Then felt the two balls together by poking through both of them until they become shaped like the dog's body.
Step 3: Finish the Head
Needle felt a small ball, about half of the size of the first ball. Felt it onto the ball from the first step (the head). This will be the snout. Then felt two very small triangles (they don't have to be very pointy though). Poke the triangles onto the two sides of the top of the head. 879
(look at the pictures as a reference)
Step 4: Attach the Head and Body Together
Felt the head into the body by aligning the head and the body in the position you want, and then felting through both of them so that they stick together.
Step 5: Add Legs
Felt four small felted ovoid shapes as the legs on the bottom of the body. You can make them as long/short as you want, it doesn't matter.
Step 6: Add a Tail
Felt a loosely felted ovoid as the tail on the end of the body. You can make this as long/short as you want.
Step 7: Add the Eyes and Nose
Add the eyes and the nose. Felt three very small balls of black needlefelt (the nose is bigger than the eye) and attach them as the eyes/nose. Alternatively, you can poke holes and use plastic eye attachments if you have those.
Step 8: Add Fur Markings and Accessories (Optional)
If you want, you can add fur patterns with different colours of needlefelt. For example, I used a little bit of white wool to make the chest and belly white.
You can also make accessories. I used a long piece of pink wool to make a scarf for mine.
Step 9: Now You're Done!
Admire your new felted dog! ૮-ᴥ-აฅ 879