Sweet & Simple Needle Felted Animals: A Step-By-Step Visual Guide

Description

Sweet and Simple Needle Felted Animals provides detailed instructions to create your own cute and cuddly collection of needle felted pets, barnyard buddies, and mascots. These adorable furry figurines make wonderful gifts and accessories that you can carry around or wear. This DIY felting book includes step-by-step instructional colour photos and texts that couldn't be easier to follow, and shows you how to make the basic shape, attach the components, add the details, and then attach the finding. And voila! Your accessory is ready to be worn and appreciated. The animals you can make include: a playful kitten, a sweet miniature Dachshund puppy, a mummy pig and her baby piglet, a downy duck and ducklings, a saucy squirrel or friendly chipmunk, a pair of adorable white bunnies, a trio of brightly-coloured parakeets, a fairytale bear, and a host of other tiny mascots. With over 20 charming projects to make, great techniques, and helpful tips, this is a craft book that felting beginners and experts alike will enjoy and treasure.

Sachiko Susa is a master felter and maker of stuffed toys, specializing in expressive little animals both realistic and novel. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She is the author of It's A Small World Felted Friends. Visit her website at susa3203.com.

"Susa's approach to needle felting will give beginners the know-how to get started, but experienced felters will also appreciate her whimsical designs." --Library Journal "Novices and experienced needle felters alike will enjoy making these irresistible miniatures." --Booklist "The photography is large, clear, and focused, and the instructions are broken down so even a beginner like me knows precisely how to go about creating these animals. The best part, by far, is the fact that there are true-to-scale photos in the book of the various parts of the animal, so while you are working on your own version of the animals you can check to make sure you have the size and shape right simply by holding it up to the corresponding part in the book." --Manhattan Book Review