Gisela Graham : Felt Robin on a Peg

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See our Needle Felted Penguin and Hearts for more Needle Felting Projects for beginners. Materials Needed to create your Needle Felted Robin Then start to stab. As you stab push the needle into all of the notches and then pull out in the same direction. Then the birds were stuffed with a small amount of toy stuffing (ours was from a small teddy bear that Alvin had savaged)! To make these Christmas craft ideas using felt, start by cutting out the main robin template shape. Then place this template on brown or tan felt and draw around two robin outlines. Guess what I got for Christmas? A stash of wool roving and a felting needle! Whilst wool roving might not be everyone’s cup of tea when it comes to a Christmas present, it was definitely mine! Needle felting has been on my list of crafts to try for several years now and so making this little fella with some of the supplies I received was a lot of fun.

Use the coupon: bookclub Pin this Needle Felting Project for your Winter Nature Table to Make Later I hope you’ll try my little needle felted robin project out – let me know how you get on if you do!Start by taking your white wool roving and foam it into an egg shape to make the body of your Robin. I used the egg-shaped cookie cutter to help me make the form. With the egg formed it’s time to add the features that make up the robin – starting with its bright red breast. Take some of the red wool roving and place on the part of the egg shape that will be the red breast and face of your robin. Next, take time to decorate the robin. Use the other templates provided to cut a wing from a different brown felt or fabric, a beak from orange felt, and a red breast from red fabric or felt. Before attaching them to the robin body, you could take time to add decorative stitches or other decorations. Then, position the wings, beak and breast in the correct position on the robin and use running stitch to attach them. You will also need a stitch or a decoration to create the robin’s eye – I used a French knot.

Your project will, generally, not resemble anything close to what you are trying to make until at least 3/4 of the way through when you will hit the “how on earth is this ever going to look like that” wall, which you must punch your way through with steely determination. It all comes together near the end and everyone, experienced or a complete beginner, feels exactly the same way.’ I love creating and making with kids and this year we are taking part again in Mam Miss’ Kid-Made Ornament series inspired by books. Last year we made a forest of Christmas Trees inspired by The Fir Tree. This year we have made felt robin christmas ornaments inspired by Little Robin’s Christmas by Jan Fearnley. I continued to cover half of the “body” wool ball in the brown wool roving in this way by cutting off little pieces of the roving and needle felting them on. Then I decided to attach the robin’s head, also by using the brown wool roving. If you wanted to, you could glue the head and body wool balls together first, but I found I was able to attach the head to the body simply by using the barbed felting needle. Step 4 Now it’s time to add in 2 wings – for the wings, I formed the shapes away from the Robin in my hands and then added them onto the Robin and felted them in place.So, why not just decide to have some fun and have a go at this Needle Felting Robin tutorial this Christmas? Hope you enjoy! X You will need I’m really happy with the finished result, especially since this is my first attempt at needle felting. And I have to say that needle felting is a very therapeutic hobby, just stabbing fabric over and over again until it finally morphs into the shape that you want!