Dry felting a cat from wool: step-by-step instructions

Step-by-step production of a toy

The cat is not felled as a whole, but in separate parts. First the head and body, then the ears, tail. They “draw” the eyes, enlarge the cheeks.

Torso and head

For the body, take some yarn and roll it into a tight, slightly elongated ball. Using a coarse needle, begin felting a cone-shaped figure. The head is made from a smaller volume of yarn. Also roll it into a tight round ball using a coarse needle.

Place the future head on the thinner part of the body and attach it, piercing through both blanks at the same time. You will get a cone-shaped body with a ball-head. Continue to felt the inner wool with a coarse needle until the looseness eventually disappears.

Determine which side the front of the toy will be on, and use a thin needle to lay a groove along the cone of the body to imitate the legs.

To give a graceful curve to the cat's body where the butt should be, apply a ball of fur and, carefully leveling it, press it with a thin needle. Repeat extension if necessary.

Ears, paws, tail

Make the ears triangular by folding two identical pieces of yarn into such shapes at once. Use a coarse needle, then a fine one, placing the future ears on a foam cushion. Turn over often to ensure the ears are evenly dense. On one side of the triangle, leave the “shaggy” ends of the fur, with which the ears will be attached to the head.

Bend the finished ear slightly in half, spread the furry part over the spherical surface and press with a needle. Do the same with the second ear.

At the bottom, attach small balls of fur to the paws, adding volume and imitating paw pads.

For the tail, prepare the yarn in the form of a cord, twist it and fold it in half. Attach one end to the back of the cat.

“Drawing” the face

For the eyes, seal the area with a needle, then attach a small piece of blue yarn and attach, carefully “outlining” the ovals of the eyes. Slightly “sink” the eye sockets. To do this, make more punctures in the place where the yarn needs to be “kneaded” and compacted.

Make the pupils. They can simply be stitched with black or green threads. For the muzzle, attach a ball of fur just below the eyes, compacting it, and give it the desired shape. Create “paths” for the mouth. Give the cheeks a roundness by felting a little fur. Make the nose with pink wool.

Dry felting toys

– cats are almost finished. All that remains is to “smooth the fur” with a thin needle - trim it, correct it, if something is not lying right, it is bristling. Perform superficial punctures, lightly piercing the wool. For decoration, make a flower or a heart. Attach the heart to the cat's neck using a woolen thread. The charming creature will delight you with its appearance.

Caring for the product The density of the finished product should be such that when pressed or compressed, a very dense, homogeneous body is felt. If everything is felted correctly, very tightly, then such a toy is not afraid of washing. Once wet, it will not shrink and will not lose its original shape.

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Cat Findus

We will make Findus the Cat using the dry felting technique. Each craftswoman can create her own version of the cat, its height will be 21 centimeters including ears.

For work we will need the following materials and tools:

Wool of different colors (at your discretion).
Felting needles %36 and No. 38.
Sliver.
Paper glue.
Acrylic paints.
Black floss yarn.
Fine sandpaper.
Pliers.
Fishing line.
Sewing needle.
Glossy varnish.

It will take about six days to create such a kitten, if you work only on this toy without being distracted by other things. It is worth considering the fact that it takes about two days to create pants. Therefore, for such work you will need some felting experience. Perseverance and desire. In the end, the toy will have to turn out to be very dense, and therefore it will need to be felted for a long time and with high quality.

First, we need to make a schematic head from a small lump of sliver. We cover it with fluffy white wool, do not forget to immediately form the muzzle, make it elongated.

We immediately roll multi-colored strips of wool onto the head, and make a nose out of a small piece of black wool. You will need a little more black wool to felt a thin strand, then cut it in half and roll it over the cat, this will be the line of the mouth.

We give the muzzle a plump expression using a needle. Then we finally go over the entire head with the thinnest needle. We roll up a roller from a long strip of sliver, which will be the body of the cat. Do not forget to observe the relationship between the head and torso.

We shape the body by falling and make a cut in the middle, these will be the pants. The incision should reach almost to the middle of the body and be deep. We fold the neck and white wool, roll it first to the head, and then connect the entire structure. We cover the body with fluffy wool, and use champagne as a transition color.

We make ears from two identical pieces of white wool, place triangles of red wool on top and finish with dark brown wool. Thus, the ears will turn out voluminous and beautiful. We work on the ears with needles, first thicker and then thin. We fold the ears to the head, they should be located symmetrically.

We cover the back of the head with dark brown wool. Using yellow wool we make stripes on the cat’s body. All strips should be located exactly along the center line of the abdomen. We also make black stripes. We go over the entire cat with a thin needle, smoothing out the transitions of the fur.

We make the pants from green wool, it needs to be fluffed and mixed. Now we put it on the cat’s legs in one sheet. We work each pant leg well with a needle. We put strips of dark green wool on the pants and make a pattern.

For the paws we take white wool, fold the tail, while keeping an eye on the proportions. We roll each paw and tail into strips, and finally go through it with a thin needle. We roll each piece onto the cat's body.

We make the eyes from paper glue, wait until they dry, cover them with white acrylic paint and place them on glue.

We draw the iris by first mixing green and bright yellow paints.

We draw the pupils and wait for everything to dry completely. We add a highlight and after drying, cover it with acrylic varnish. We make antennae from thin colored fishing line. The cat is ready.

Step-by-step master class on creating a kitten from wool using the felting technique

In order to felt a kitten using the felting technique, we take a padding polyester for the base. Using a gypsy needle and thread, we form an egg-shaped blank from padding polyester as in the photo below:

Then be sure to fluff the wool well with your hands.

We put the fluffed wool on the egg-shaped workpiece and begin to roll it using a coarse needle No. 36 (it can be replaced with a toothpick or sharpened wire - whoever comes up with what). At the same time, remember that the needle should be stuck as deep as possible so that the wool stretches to the central part of the workpiece.

If everything is done correctly, a density will form inside, and the surface will remain loose. Let's look at the photo.

Let's prepare blanks for the paws. We carefully dump each of them to the desired state - they should be loose. We leave the wool loose on one edge.

Slowly, carefully, using the help of a needle, we roll the legs onto the body blank with loose wool (as in the photo).

We add a little wool to the junction of the paw and the body, thereby strengthening the “adhesion”.

We set the necessary bends in the kitten’s paws, fixing them with our fingers. Then we secure the result with a needle.

After this, you need to add a little wool to the muzzle area and increase the volume under the eye sockets.

Then we make indentations for the cat’s eyes of the desired size.

Then you should form a small triangular plane (the place where the nose will be attached), as well as two small identical balls - these are cheek pads.

You can also easily make a penguin - this is a cute, cute creature that can become a wonderful New Year's gift for someone!

After this, we roll the cheek balls just below the formed plane for the nose. We do the chin in exactly the same way.

Now let's add some fur to the feet of the cat's paws, and at the same time form small volumes on them.

You can partially begin to “grind” the product. We sand with a needle No. 38 - piercing each area many times. It should be noted that grinding can only be done in those places that will no longer be finished.

Now you can carefully felt the tail and give it the necessary bends. We leave the wool loose on one edge. Before attaching the kitten’s tail to the body, it also needs to be carefully sanded, as in the photo.

Then, carefully roll the tail down, while trying to stick the needle as deep as possible, thereby carefully attaching the tail to the cat’s body.

Now you need to strengthen the junction of the tail with the body and then “polish” the resulting joint. By repeatedly poking the same place with a needle, we gradually form the kitten’s butt out of wool.

And now we are sculpting eyes of the required size from polymer clay. Then we dry the eyes, sand them with sandpaper and glue them with Moment Crystal glue.

Now we are working on the smile line again. This time as clearly as possible. And after that, we roll a small flagellum between our fingers and place it on the bridge of the nose, forming wrinkles.

We make a small triangle-spout from wool of a different color and roll it onto the previously formed triangular plane.

Carefully use a needle to mark the kitten’s nostrils.

We proceed to the final stage of felting a kitten from wool - using a foam sponge or felting brush, we place two identical triangles under the ears. We periodically turn the workpieces over, otherwise they “love” to fall into the structure of the sponge.

Another wonderful toy, although a little more difficult to make: such a cute hedgehog will win your heart with its cute face!

Gently pinching the ears between your fingers, we process their edges with a needle. Remember that you need to leave the fur free in the place where the ear will be attached to the head.

Now we roll the ears to the head and form bends on them. Finally, we perform the finishing “grinding”.

Our MK has almost come to an end. All that remains is to paint his eyes and tint the entire toy as a whole. Afterwards we cover the eyes with varnish.

This concludes our step-by-step master class on dry felting a kitten. We have a magnificent cat who will delight and touch us. And finally, we wish you endless inspiration and diligence! Remember that only you can do the best!

And here is an example of another funny kitten Woof.

We hope that the result of felting pleased you! Continue reading our MKs, improve and practice! And we also advise you to find out how you can not only felt toys, but also knit them, in our article CROCHETTED TOYS WITH DIAGRAMS, DESCRIPTIONS, PHOTOS AND VIDEO MASTER CLASSES USING THE EXAMPLE OF A BUNNY AND A FROG.

Cheerful cat

We propose to create together using the felting technique a small toy - a Funny Cat. This wonderful toy can serve as a pendant for keys, a phone or a purse. At the same time, in this master class you will be able to get acquainted with two types of techniques: dry felting and wet felting.

Before work, you should make sure that you have the following tools and materials:

Merino wool of different colors (light green, yellow, black, turquoise).
Jewelry waxed cord.
Two beads.
Needles.
Threads.
Supergel moment.
A special felting brush or sponge.
Needles for felting (twisted, triangle, star, various numbers, thin and thick).
Soap.
Hot water.

We take a piece of turquoise wool, from which we will make the body of the cat. We entangle a piece of turquoise wool with each other. Now we make a soap solution and use it to form a body for the cat.

We lower the body carefully, only then we begin to slightly intensify the movements and rub our base body between our palms. We immediately try to form the ears. We wrap the finished body with a thin strand of wool and begin to felt it using the dry felting technique. This means that we need to put the base on the sponge and use the needle to create a star. Then we continue to tap with thinner needles. Next, take a very small piece of black wool and make socks from it.

After this, we use a needle to pin it to the cat. We decorate the antennae using black thread and a needle. We take yellow and light green wool, we need to make small flagella from it. We carefully roll these flagella onto the cat, thus making our cat tabby.

Using thread and a sewing needle, embroider the mouth. All that remains is to make the cat’s eyes; for this we use suitable beads.

We will create paws for the cat from waxed cord. We divide a piece of cord in half and tie knots at the ends.

We attach the paws and legs to the body using super-gel moment. We make the paw-handles in the same way, only they will be slightly shorter than the paw-legs. Carefully attach them to the cat and let them dry. Now our funny fur cat is ready.

Other variations of dry and wet felting

Washing machine

A simplified version of wet felting. In this way, volumetric products are made. Wool is applied to a blank of the required shape, fixed with mesh, nylon, threads and sent to the washing machine. With this method, you won’t get an artistic painting with subtle drawings, but you can make bags, shoes, and mittens. But you should be prepared for the fact that the result will be unpredictable. As an option, add hats and scarves previously felted by hand.

A more convenient way is to knit a product from special yarn and felt it in a machine. But first it is better to make a sample to calculate the degree of shrinkage.

Tatyana Maksimenko has a master class on felting Christmas balls from wool.

The snowflake is embroidered on felt and sewn to the ball

Embroidery directly on the ball

The basics of balls felted in a washing machine can be supplemented with patterns:

The “Cross” master class will teach you exactly how

Application

The applique combines wet and dry methods: flat bases with convex elements. You can felt wool onto a base sweater or decorate a bag or coat and thus refresh an old item.

Applique on bags and shoes

Clothes with felted decor acquire spiritual warmth

Wet felting of mittens and dry felting of raccoons

Nunofelting

The name consists of the Japanese word nuno - cotton and English felting - felting. This type of creativity stands apart from other methods of wool felting.

This is a technique of applying a pattern to cotton, silk, chiffon, lace and similar fabrics that can allow wool fibers to pass between their fibers. Only thin merino in a combed tape or top is suitable for this, otherwise the products will be rough.

The execution procedure is similar to classic flat felting, only the wool is laid out not in a continuous layer, but according to the pattern.

The natural shrinkage process of wool gives a special charm to the product - this causes arbitrary folds to form on the base fabric and the product becomes unique.

MK video on creating a stole using the nunofelting technique. The author shows in detail the layout of wool, threads and fabric, as well as the step-by-step creation of the item.

Original felting: kitten Woof and his friends

To create a Woof Kitten, you can use the anime technique or a more complex version and patterns for one of these master classes.

All that remains is to complement the product with the characteristic features of the character:

For the base, use soft beige wool;
Make eyes from turquoise beads or color matching beads blue;
On the face you need to make a darker “mask” of chocolate wool;
The same wool should be wrapped around the tips of the paws and tail and felted.

What kind of wool is suitable for felting?

Any wool is suitable for felting - from angora to cat. The main condition is that the hairs are thin and fall into a lump. Sometimes plant fibers are used as an additive to create decorative effects: flax, nettle, hemp, soy, silk, bamboo.

Natural carded colors

The main material is sheep, llama, alpaca, and camel wool. Each type has its own characteristics and, depending on the thickness and elasticity of the hair, is used to make different things: brooches, clothes, bags, toys, paintings and carpets.

Types of wool for felting

Sheep wool is the most accessible, so it is used by both beginning needlewomen and experienced craftsmen.

Carding is most convenient for dry felting

Lightened bleached and tinted wool in various colors is available for sale. There are designations for “fine” and “semi-fine” wool.

The difference is not only in thickness, but also in the presence of guard hairs in semi-fine yarn, which complicates the process of wet felting, but for dry felting this parameter is not so important

Merino

Leader in production thanks to the elasticity and softness of fine hairs. Merino wool produces delicate items with the smoothest surface. Hair thickness 14.5–23 microns. Strong wool with fibers of 20-23 microns goes on mass sale; finer types cost an order of magnitude more and are bought by fashion houses for exclusive collections.

Merino

Carding

Indispensable for dry felting. The wool is combed with a carder, while the fibers are straightened and laid in any direction, forming an even sheet. When dry felted, this wool wadding forms a dense mat, forming a smooth surface with fine hairs. The fiber thickness is 25–30 microns, so it is suitable for toys, bags, shoes, outerwear, rugs and paintings.

Carding and mechanized carding

Tops, combed ribbon

These are neatly combed strands of wool in which the fibers are located in one direction. Such strands consist of semi-fine and fine hairs and are indispensable for wet felting or nunofelting.

Combed tape

Tow

It consists of hairs of varying quality - both small thin and guard hairs. It is used for stuffing toys or making rough products by dry felting - felt boots, bags, carpets.

Sliver

Similar to tow, sold in strips and bundles. It is of higher quality, smoothly combed, not dyed, but contains small debris and coarse hairs. The application is the same as tow. The base of toys is made from sliver, which is then rolled with finer and more expensive wool. Suitable for dry and wet felting.

Rovnica

It is a large, loosely twisted thread, which is suitable for knitting with thick knitting needles followed by felting in a washing machine or for creating individual decorative elements of clothing, bags, shoes, paintings.

The above types of wool can be seen clearly in the video from the Fox Workshop channel:

How to felt a carpet from cat hair

How to make your own carpet from pet hair using the felting method. To felt a carpet from cat hair, I decided to lay it out in a thin layer on paper, then I carefully laid out the next layer in perpendicular tufts in relation to the previous layer, and did this several times

It is very important that the wool is laid in an even layer, without thick or thin areas, without gaps. I covered the entire surface of the laid out wool with newspapers.

I spread all this under the room carpet, where we walk a lot. Indeed, soon the cat hair fell between the papers and I got a wool plate that looked like felt. This plate of felt made from cat hair can be held in your hands and it does not collapse, the fur sticks together, shrinks, and compacts. Now I have the opportunity to wash it with liquid detergent for woolen products or laundry soap. I sprayed the entire carpet with hot water and detergent dissolved in it using a spray bottle. Svrhu covered the wool with cellophane film and began to knead it, like kneading dough. I rinsed the resulting rug in cold and hot water to allow the wool to mat even better. The last time I added a little vinegar to the rinse water and wrung out the felted carpet with a towel. My rug has decreased in size and shrunk almost 3 times. I dried this cat hair carpet on the floor, spreading it on a dry sheet. When the carpet dried, it became very light, smooth, but not as dense as I would have liked. After all, the better the wool is felted, the better, more beautiful and more durable the carpet will be. Therefore, I decided to continue felting, but not by hand, but using a washing machine. I placed the wool rug in the washing machine and put it on the rinse cycle. This time the carpet was perfectly wrung out of the water, it shrunk again and became much denser. I laid it out again on the sheet to let the carpet dry. I didn’t dye the cat’s fur, I like the natural color of the fur, and our cats are blue (gray). I have an idea to make the carpet elegant and bright with the help of flowers crocheted from iris or silk using the Irish lace method. I love to crochet, and I especially like to knit Irish lace motifs. When I finish this work, I will post a photo on this page. My carpet was not small. It will serve as a bedside rug. Felted items, nunofelting, are now in trend. Cat hair is much more pleasant to work with than sheep hair. It is especially convenient that using wet felting you can easily get a neat fabric from cat hair; it is almost weightless, delicate, and soft. I use dry felting as a preliminary technique for pressing wool; it’s quick and original. Cat hair is odorless, interesting in color, pleasant to the touch, and good for the skin and joints.

Felting a case for glasses made of cat hair

How to make a case for a camera or glasses with your own hands from pet hair using the felting method. To felt a case for glasses you needed: iris threads for crocheting, some fabric for the case, cat hair for felting. The felting method is similar to felting a wool carpet. I first used the technique of dry felting, then wet felting of wool. Then I knitted flowers and leaves from iris with a key and secured them to the finished product. The cylindrical clasp on top of the case was rolled between the palms from a wet tuft of wool with liquid detergent, and then dried and sewn on. More recipes

baking using wild plants, herbs and wild flowers.

Yarn nut cake. Green dough

for the cupcake

Rolled sesame halva with dandelion syrup and cinnamon

The material belongs to the site www.arugula.ru

How to sew a cat from a sock with your own hands

It doesn’t matter if your child’s favorite pair of socks is torn. A parent with creative thinking will definitely be able to find the right use for them. For example, make a toy.

Sewing a cat from a sock is so easy that you can even do it with a child. For a child, this is an opportunity to develop imagination and motor skills, and for a parent, it is a chance to plunge into childhood and simply relax with their beloved child.

What you will need to make a sock cat:

cotton wool for stuffing toys;
a pair of colored socks (bright, terry and striped ones are best);
scissors;
sewing needle and thread to match the color of the socks;
toy eyes (can be replaced with buttons);
fishing line (for designing antennae);
button (to decorate the nose);
a sheet of checkered paper and a felt-tip pen (needed for modeling patterns);
instant glue.

Photo

Before you start making blanks for your future kitten from a pair of socks, you need to model the patterns on paper. For this toy they look like this:

Photo 1. Patterns for a toy kitten with your own hands, taking into account the marking of all allowances and indicating the number of necessary parts.

Photo 2. A simple pattern for beginners for sewing a kitten, consisting of two parts of the head, body and eyes, as well as one part each of the forehead and nose pad.

Photo 3. Sewing pattern for Simon the Cat, consisting of three parts - body, tail and large round eyes, all parts need to be cut out in two pieces.

Sewing patterns

To get similar ones, you need to attach a sheet of checkered paper or tracing paper to the screen, draw the patterns along the contour and cut them out. Now you can start preparing the preparations. To do this, you will need to place both socks on the work surface with the heels up, attach a pattern to each and outline with a felt-tip pen, retreating 0.5 cm from the edge of the pattern for an allowance.

Next, you need to cut the socks as indicated on the patterns. If everything is done correctly, then you should get the following parts of the toy: from the first sock - a cat’s head and two hats, from the second - a body and a tail.

Attention! Parts for each element should be 2 pieces, since the sock consists of two layers of fabric

Sewing a cat from a sock and stuffing a toy

Now all the cut out parts need to be sewn in pairs: 2 body parts, 2 tails, 2 heads, 4 two hats. You do not need to darn all the way from the underside of the sock: you will need a small hole for subsequent stuffing.

Turn out the mended parts of the cat and stuff them tightly with cotton wool, then carefully sew up the remaining holes. The seams should be small and frequent, with an interval of no more than 2 mm.

Decoration of the cat's face

When the finished toy lies on the work surface, you can begin to decorate it. To do this, you need to glue toy eyes on the top of the kitten's face. If the eyes are replaced with buttons, then sew them on. Do the same with the button nose, sewing it under the eyes. For the antennae, you need to fold the fishing line several times, releasing about 5 cm for each, cut it off, tie it in the middle and sew it to the cat's face. To complete the look, you can put one of the hats on the kitten’s ears.

Siamese cat

In order to make felting such a cat with your own hands, you will need to prepare the following materials:

Sliver.
Special needles for felting No. 36, No. 38.
Wool for felting in white, sand, yellow and chocolate colors.
Acrylic paints.
Polymer clay for eyes.
Acrylic varnish.
Paint: gray pastel.

First, we begin to make the body of the cat, felt the base, and with a sliver we begin to carefully felt it in our hands, using a No. 36 needle. The cat’s back should be arched, so in the process of falling off we give the body a wave shape. Now we take the head, we also form the head into a ball from the sliver, but in the places of the eyes you need to stick the needle more intensely, this is necessary so that indentations are formed.

For the paws, we take the same amount of sliver; you need to wash the paws on a washcloth or brush, if you already have experience in this, you can do it in your hands. The paws need to be given a narrow cylindrical shape with your fingers. In those places where the legs bend, you need to stick it in with a needle more often to make a depression and press down the sliver on both sides with your fingers.

So you need to felt four legs and attach them to the body, look carefully at the proportionality.

Now we proceed to the next stage, for this we take carded white wool and roll the workpiece with a needle No. 36 for rough felting. Mark the joints of the hind legs and immediately card these places. The limbs of the paws need to be covered with brown wool, but with a No. 38 needle. tear the sand-colored wool and apply it at the transition from brown to white, in a small layer, carefully roll everything around the paw. We push through where the pads should be with a needle No. 36, and with a needle No. 38 we process the surface. In order for the paws to be stable, we flatten the feet. We do all the legs this way, making sure that their length does not differ.

Now we roll the head with white carding, mark the places of the mouth and nose with a No. 36 needle. We cover the muzzle with brown wool and add volume in the areas of the nose and lower lip. Now we form the nose, lip and cheeks with black wool, and press everything down with a No. 38 needle.

We fold the head to the body and mask all the joints with white wool No. 38 and a needle. We first fasten all the parts together with needles, roll each part to the body with a No. 36 needle and check the stability of the cat, and again treat the entire surface with a No. 38 needle.

We take two pieces of black wool (identical) and form the ears, now we roll a small part of the brown wool into the center of the ears, now we roll a little more sand-colored wool into the center and process everything. We roll up the ears and mask the joints with sand and white wool. We make the tail from black carding, roll it in, shape it and roll it to the body, don’t forget to mask the joints. We roll the back with sandy wool, tinting the places where the paws are attached with beige pastel. You can attach ready-made eyes or make them out of plastic, or make mustaches out of fishing line. The nose can be covered with acrylic varnish, the lower lip can be tinted with gray pastel. Collar and other details as desired.

Indoor microclimate

Is there a lot of yellow light bulbs in the house, is the air dry? In this case, the cat's fur may become dry and lifeless.

For the health and beauty of your pet, pay attention to the microclimate in the house. Various ways can help improve it:

frequent wet cleaning without the use of chemicals;
regular ventilation of rooms;
reducing heating intensity. If this is not possible, make sure that the cat does not sleep on the radiators. Equip her with a cozy house or bed;
using a humidifier.

If you think you're doing everything right, but your cat's appearance still isn't up to par, visit your veterinarian. Coat problems can be symptoms of various diseases. Also, do not forget about routine medical examination, vaccination, and deworming of your pet. All this can help your cat be healthy for many years and delight you with its beauty and playfulness.

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Step-by-step photo of making a March cat

I will try not only to describe in words what we will do with my baby, but also to attach a photo so that the sequence of actions is clear.

We will need:

Paper;
Pencil;
Textile;
Threads;
Ribbon;
Scissors;
Needle;
Chalk or soap for cutting;
Felt pen.

And now about the work step by step.

Draw each detail on paper and cut it out. What details do we need to draw: head, ears, paws, tail, body.

Fold the fabric in half. Using patterns, cut out parts of the product, 2 identical pieces for each part, only 4 legs for each pair and ears. To “hold” each part to the other, we pin it with pins.

Sew each part, leaving a small gap.

Turn out the parts and fill them with cotton wool. The cotton wool needs to be torn off in small pieces and pushed in tightly.

Sew the holes with a hidden seam.

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Sew all the parts in place. The ears are gathered a little, and only then are they sewn on. It will look like they are a little voluminous.

Draw eyes and a nose with a felt-tip pen. Don't forget the mustache!

Decorating the cat.

We make “fingers” on the paws by sewing them with a couple of stitches.

We tie a bow and hand over a flower!

Our kitten is ready! It is not sewn very neatly, but please make a discount on what the kids made! If you sew yourself, then of course it will turn out much neater.

What tools are needed

You can buy a simple picture frame at a hardware store. Use standard size. Wooden frames with a noble natural shade look good with such pictures. If you can’t buy these, buy regular plastic and coat it with varnish.

For dry felting you will need a small non-woven napkin. You can buy it at a handicraft store in your city. If you don’t have this material at hand, you can use regular felt or flannel. The main requirement is that the fabric used must be fleecy and sticky.

In stores you can find so-called combed tape or tops. It is most often used for laying out paintings. All fibers used have already been combed out and arranged into neat bundles. This type of wool is suitable for both the base and the background.

The background can also be laid out using carding. Unlike combed tape, the fibers here do not look very neat. Most often they are sold in the form of runes or regular skeins. They help create artificial chaos. Suitable for creating snowdrifts and skies.

For the base, the top layer of the background, a sliver is used. This is the same tape, but pre-cleaned. It is light, but not bleached and has no coloring.

In addition, you will need thin tweezers. This tool is needed for working with small parts. Sharp nail scissors are used to straighten the painting. In order not to look for materials yourself, you can purchase a set of tools on the Tovarika trading platform in the “Hobbies and Creativity” section.

Kitten Mustache

The dry felting technique has recently become extremely popular and this is not surprising. Using our master class on dry felting and this technique, you can make amazing and magical products, unusual jewelry or cute toys.

Sometimes this technique is called felting, which means felt and needle in German. Thus, the essence of the technique becomes clear, which consists of tangling wool fibers and compacting it using special needles.

To work, you need to prepare the following materials in advance:

For felting, the wool is white and a little pink.
Puffer.
Sintepon.
Awl.
Scissors.
Universal glue moment.
Felting needles No. 36 and No. 40.
White acrylic paint.
Fishing line.
Ribbon.

Take a piece of padding polyester and roll it into a tight ball, then another roller. We take the ball and, using a needle, compact it and give it the correct shape, this will be the kitten’s head. We do exactly the same thing with the roller, which will be the body. Then we begin to outline the eye sockets with a needle, which should be slightly larger than the diameter of the eye.

We use a slicker to pick up the white wool; if you don’t have a slicker, you can do this with your hands. We do this in small pieces and then mix the fibers, roll them onto the wool with a No. 40 needle. We deepen the eye sockets with a needle and take an awl, pierce a hole in the middle of the eye sockets. Then the hole needs to be widened and deepened using scissors. We try on the eyes and glue them tightly, making eyelids from pieces of wool and placing them on top and bottom of the eyes. We outline the line of the nose with a needle No. 36, as well as the lines of the cheeks, mouth, you need to roll a piece of pink wool to the nose, outline the nostrils and add volume for the cheeks.

In the same way as the eyelids, we make a mouth for the cat, press it down and work it around with a needle. We take a piece of wool, fold it into a triangle, seal it with a needle on both sides and roll the side that is not processed to the cat’s head, this will be the ear. We make another ear in the same way.

Now we take the roller body and roll it with wool, leaving one side untreated. Now we bring the body to the head. All that remains is to make the paws, so we separate four identical pieces of wool from the combed ribbon. We dump each piece into a paw and roll it to the body. We bend the hind legs in the process, fold the tail and also roll it down.

We give the kitten fluffy fur; to do this, we treat the entire surface with a reverse needle. This way, you will be able to pull small bundles out. We make antennae from fishing line or monofilament. We tint the fur with pastels, draw around the eyes, mouth, nose and between the fingers with crayons. We knit a bow around the neck and the cat is ready.

Types of felting

The technology can use sheep fur, as well as alpaca, camel, llama, or even cashmere, angora and mohair. There are two main types of creating such images.

Dry felting

This method was invented not so long ago. Even in the last century, most pictures were made from wet material. This is not surprising: the dry version requires more time. But the image turns out clearer and has defined contours.

For the base you need a wooden backing from a finished frame. A napkin made of synthetics is suitable as a background. If you plan to knit it yourself, be sure to wash it before working on the picture. Select a delicate wash cycle of 50 degrees and a spin force of about 400. This is necessary so that the materials shrink a little and no gaps or debris appear in them. You can also use sticky non-woven fabric as a base.

For ease of use, attach the canvas to a soft pillow with artificial filler. Start laying out the main background elements. Manipulate fiber density to create translucent clouds and bright blue skies. Sometimes it makes more sense to lay out the composition on a colored napkin.

Create one small element and secure it with a crown needle. Use a thin blade to pierce the wool in the felting areas, trying to pull the fibers through the fabric. If we are talking about a large picture with many elements, you can purchase a tool with four needles.

Attach the finished image tightly to the prepared wooden base. Please review it carefully for any defects. If you notice an empty space, attach a piece of patch that matches the color and attach it with a needle.

Wet felting

To create such a painting from wool, you will need to follow the following steps step by step:

Choose colored tufts for the base of your future image. Fluff the tip of the material a little so that you can easily pull out a few fibers. Take the finished skein with one hand. With your second hand, carefully pull out about 30 centimeters of mohair, depending on the length and width of the planned painting. Gently stretch the fiber.
Find a piece of wood. Instead of a stretcher, you can use the remains of an old wall calendar. But the cardboard must be strong and solid, without holes or visible cracks. Wrap the workpiece with special bubble wrap used for transporting fragile items. Air bubbles are on the outer layer.
Lay the material from top to bottom, with the pile in one direction. After this, create a perpendicular layer going from left to right. Carefully secure the future background and begin laying out all the elements of the work on it. Don't try to secure them - just place the wool on top in the desired shape.
Carefully lift the painting and place a terry towel underneath so as not to wet the work area. Prepare a soap solution - add a little liquid or solid soap to regular warm water and stir the resulting liquid. Pour it into any household spray bottle.
Cover the top of the product with a mosquito net or other translucent fabric. Start spraying the soap solution over the surface. Trying not to press on the painting, spread the soap over the work surface. “Massage” the image for 5-7 minutes to set the fur.
Take a regular kitchen rolling pin. Wrap layers of fabric around it lengthwise and roll for 10 minutes. After this, repeat the operation, but this time in width. After each circle, check for stretching or deformation.
Dry the fabric with a terry towel and leave for a few minutes. It will shrink a little during the process. This wool felting will help both beginning adult artists and children create paintings.

Kitten Chunya

First we need to make a base - an egg-shaped blank. We make it from padding polyester using a gypsy needle and thread. Take a piece of yellow wool, or another color as desired. We fluff the wool with our fingers and apply it to the finished workpiece. We begin to debon the wool using a coarse needle No. 36, while sticking it as deeply as possible, this is necessary so that the wool can stretch to the central part of the workpiece. Thus, density appears inside, but the surface remains loose. During the deboning process, we try to achieve uniform collapse.

Now we make the paws, for them we place four identical sausages between our fingers in a spiral. As a result, all workpieces should turn out loose, while, on the one hand, the wool should remain in a free state. It is on this side, where the loose fur remains, that we roll all four legs to the body. Now we strengthen the grip of the legs with the body, for this we add a little wool and process it with a needle.

The paws need to be shaped, so fixing them with your fingers, set small bends and secure the result with a needle.

Let's start processing and shaping the muzzle. Using wool, it increases the volume under the eye sockets. Using a needle, we make indentations for the eyes of the desired size. In the same way, we use a needle to make a triangular plane for the nose to make the quills, form two small balls of wool and roll them in the right place. Next we form the chin from wool.

Add a little wool to the paws and form small volumes on the feet. Now we move on to sanding, but in places that will not be processed. We work the surface with a needle No. 38.

We begin to fold the tail in a spiral between the fingers and set the desired bends. We leave the fur loose at one end and roll the tail to the body. At the fastening points we treat the surface with a needle.

We sculpt the cat’s eyes and dry them, then sand them with a scratch pad until smooth. We drip a little glue onto the bottom of the eye sockets, wait until the wool absorbs the glue well. After this, you can insert the eyes and press them tightly with your fingers.

Using a needle, we work out the smile line, make a small flagellum from the wool and roll it down, forming the bridge of the nose and wrinkles. Take a small piece of orange, red or pink wool for the nose. We drop a small triangle and place it on a pre-prepared triangular plane.

For the ears you also need to felt two small triangles. We do this on a foam sponge using a needle; the workpieces need to be turned over periodically. Then we place each triangle between our fingers and process the edges with a needle. In the place where we will connect it to the head, we leave the wool in a free state. We roll the ears and process them, performing final grinding of the surface. We paint the eyes with acrylic paints and cover the top with varnish. Now Chucha is ready.

How to felt a carpet from cat hair

It is very important that the wool is laid in an even layer, without thick or thin areas, without gaps. I covered the entire surface of the laid out wool with newspapers.

Felting a case for glasses made of cat hair

Brooch made of bindweed

To create it, you need to stock up on the following combination of tools and materials:

Merino wool for felting (combed tape) in yellow, light green, green, white and purple.
A rug with a pimpled surface.
A needle – medium thickness or thin – for felting.
Water.
Soap.
Using a felting sponge or brush.
Bamboo rug.
Polyester mesh.
Scissors.
A pin for a brooch.

Read below for a step-by-step master class with photos on wet felting flowers from wool:

Place a pimply mat on the work surface and place a circle template of the required diameter under it.

Divide the purple combed ribbon into strands. Using the thicker edge - the one in your hand - place each strand in the center of the circle. Lay out the base in a circle like this.

Next, form a second layer, only now with the thicker side of the strands facing outward, not toward the center. Make at least 4-5 layers of purple wool, laid out in one direction, so that the thickness of the layout is approximately 2 to 3 cm.

Place thin strands of white wool on top of the workpiece. Press the layout with your hand and turn the entire layer over. Pinch off a few green strands and place them in the center.

Before the procedure of wet felting a flower for a brooch, sprinkle the layout with soapy water, cover it with a net, and let it soak.

Meanwhile, make the stamens, as well as the leaf and stem. Take yellow wool, divide it into three narrow strands, fold each in half, and twist it into strands.

Lay out the sheet: take a few strands of green and light green wool, fan it out in 3 layers, twisting a thin rope with your fingers at the bottom and forming a sharp tip at the top.

For the stem, take a green strand, separate a quarter of the wool lengthwise, and add thin light green strands to it. Place the workpiece on a bamboo mat, moisten it with soapy water, leaving a small tail (about 4 cm long) dry, wet your hands with soapy water and roll it over the mat, giving the wool the shape of a rope. Then cover it with the other half of the rug and roll it inside until the wool is completely evenly matted. Do the same with the stamens.

Next, continue wet felting delicate wool flowers for the brooch. Place the blank for the sheet on the pimply mat near the purple layout. Cover with a net and moisten with soap and water. Rub your palms in different directions, gradually increasing pressure and speed. Then turn the pieces over with the back side up and roll them through the mesh in the same way.

When single hairs come away from the material, you can remove the mesh and continue felting without it until completely dense elements are obtained.

Then take scissors, cut a hole in the center of the purple blank, insert the yellow stamens into it so that a third of their entire length remains on the wrong side.

Straighten them at the bottom with your hands, attach the stem with a fluffy tail, rub it through the mesh, and then put the purple base on a brush or sponge, wrap the stem with a sheet and use a felting needle to connect all these parts together. Sprinkle the flower in this area with soapy water, rub it in with your hands, and then roll it with a bamboo mat until the size of the flower decreases significantly and its density increases.

Rinse the soap in clean water, stretch the edges in a circle until they become wavy. Use scissors to cut out shaped petals, press the cut areas with soapy hands, rinse, straighten, dry, attach to a brooch pin and decorate your outfit.

The video below shows how to make flowers using the wet felting technique:

How to felt: basic techniques

Using the felting technique, unique handmade products, toys, accessories, and clothing can be made. Today there are several popular felting techniques. A detailed study of the master classes will allow you to make any level of complexity.

The following main techniques can be distinguished:

dry felting;
wet felting;
felting using a washing machine.

How to dry felting

Dry felting is

the technique of entangling wool fibers together, resulting in felt. The following items are required for work:

unspun wool, for which the use of carding is recommended;
special needles with notches in the form of triangles or stars;
a working surface, which can be a small piece of foam rubber during dry felting.

The manufacturing process includes stages of sequential application of wool fibers to give the item the required shapes and sizes. In some cases, as

The basis for the product can be a synthetic padding polyester, on top of which wool fibers are laid.

When working with needles, you must be careful and careful, as these instruments are very sharp and can cause injury. The creation process begins with the use of a thick needle, followed by the use of a thin needle for more precise work.

When working, the needle should always be positioned perpendicular to the product being manufactured.

The following are produced using the dry felting technique:

three-dimensional crafts in the form of keychains, badges, toys;
accessories in the form of wallets, straps;
items of clothing, for example, hats, coats, felt boots.

How to wet felting

The wet felting technique involves working with wool on gauze and film using a soap solution or liquid soap. When using regular soap

the solution is prepared as follows:

a piece of soap is ground on a grater;
the resulting shavings are poured with two liters of hot water and mixed well;
after two hours the solution should thicken and can be used for work.

It should be noted that the concentration of soap in the solution must be high, otherwise the wool fibers will not connect with each other and the craft will not work.

The essence of felting is

by rubbing the material manually in different directions. The manufacturing process involves the following steps:

an oilcloth is spread on a flat surface, on which gauze is spread;
the base is laid out, the main background and design elements are made;
after laying out the fibers, place a cloth on top, generously moistened with soapy water;
After a certain time, excess liquid is removed using napkins.

An important point is that the fibers are laid out crosswise or in strips. In this case, there should be no holes or gaps in the canvas, and each layer should lie perpendicularly with the same thickness

How to roll in the washing machine

This felting technique is considered the most

a simple way to create items from wool. To work you must have the following items:

dense form for rolling;
durable nylon tights;
wool;
washing machine.

The prepared workpiece is placed in a washing bag and loaded into the washing machine. When washing, a small amount of washing powder is used, and washing should be done on a wash cycle without soaking and drying. The optimal temperature is considered to be 50 0 C

. The finished felted base is removed from the washing machine and after complete drying it can be used for creativity.