Needle Felted Carrot

Love needle felting with wool but don’t want to break your pocket by spending too much for the wool roving? Here is the tip! We demo this method with a needle felted carrot where we use a sculptural core method to make a bigger needle felted project (with video tutorial).

Wool roving or commonly known as felting wool is not cheap. Making a big felted project needs a lot of wool. If the whole piece of the felted project is done purely from wool roving, it is quite costly and wastes your money. In order to be economical on bigger needle felting projects, we can use a method called felted sculptural core.

How-To DIY Needle Felted Carrot

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Basically, the felted sculptural core is to needle-felt the core with other materials to the shape and size you want. We then needle felt colored wool roving to cover the core. I read that we can needle felt a sculptural core base with major fiber, so, I tried it with polyester stuffing material since it is readily available in my craft room. Other materials like wool batting and wool core are commonly used in the felting core. As long as the fiber can be caught and tangle up among itself with the barbs of the needle, it can be used to build the core.

Gather the following needle felting kits and supplies and we are on the way to making some needle felted carrots. We need polyester fiberfill to build the core base, and some felting wool or wool rovings in orange and black to “color” the core into a carrot. For the leaves, we need some felt in green colors and yellow embroidery floss as the vein of the leaf. For the tools, we need the needle felting tool set that comes with a sponge and a pair of scissors.

I have made a few carrots with this method and really love the result. A friend told me on the Facebook Page that she placed a bell in her felting cat toy and her cat went nuts on it… lol. Apart from the usual photo and written tutorial, again, I have prepared a bionic-woman video to show you the process. Now, the bunnies I made last year have a permanent carrot boat to sit on {click the link to get the bunny sachet pattern and tutorial].

I find needle felting quite interesting, besides creating beautiful crafts and handmade, it also has some therapeutic effects. When you are frustrated, you jab on the wool to release all the tension and stress. When you can’t focus, you jab the wool and you will find that you get all the concentration that you thought you can’t.

When you are happy, you will find every needle going in and out of the wool is so beautiful. When you are surrounded by noise, as a temporary escapade, you fall into the small world between the wool and the needle that are quiet and peaceful. When you are in pain, you jab with full concentration then you get into meditation and forget about what’s bothering you. Please tell me if you have any of the experiences mentioned here above. At least this is what I found throughout these few weeks of felting and jabbing and piercing. I truly enjoy it.

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WHAT’S NEXT:

• Start needle felting and share your completed handmade on Facebook and/or Instagram. Remember to tag us, @craftpassion, so that we are able to see them.
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• Share with your felting groups for a craft-along event.
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