How to make a felted hedgehog from the new book Wool Toys and Friends: Step-by-Step Instructions for Needle-Felting Fun

I had the pleasure of meeting Laurie Sharp, author of Wool Pets and the brand spankin' new Wool Toys and Friends: Step-by-Step Instructions for Needle-Felting Fun at Maker Faire. She was so nice and cute as her darling creatures that she creates. To celebrate the release of Wool Toys and Friends, I am giving you this full tutorial on how to needle felt the positively cutest hedgehog pin cushion. If you want to see tons more from the inside of this book, pop on over to Amazon by clicking here and you will see a whole bunch of the inside pages that include lots of the images of Laurie's creations that are included in the book.

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Wool Toys and Friends: Step-by-Step Instructions for Needle-Felting Fun

by

Laurie Sharp

This volume teaches and illustrates fun, needle-felted projects to add to your collection of Wool Pets. The instructions include wet-felting and various embellishment techniques along with the needle felting and discusses the ways that folk art and nature inspire the projects. Heirloom hand-crafted wooden or cloth toys, birds and other animals have inspired and influenced the projects which have been translated into needle-felted art.

Laurie Sharp is a full time artist and has been needle felting for over 7 years. She raises her own sheep and shears and processes the wool for most of her projects. She has been featured on HGTV's That's Clever. You can visit her web site at www.woolpets.com. Her work has been shown in a number of galleries in the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband and business partner, Kevin Sharp. Kevin is a professional photographer, and provides both the beauty and how-to photography for this book. His work can be viewed at www.sharpphotography.com.

Comments

[Melanie K.]

I have been hearing more and more about wool felting ... I am getting curious about it...

[Barbara Hagerty]

These are the most adorable things, ever!

[Suella]

I love needle felting, both by hand and with an embellishment machine.

The hedgehog is a cutie!