Tutorial So you sew two cuddly animal friends

• 2017

That's what you need:

• Felting device with 7 needles (fine)
• Felting device with 3 needles
• Foam pad for felting, 210 x 150 x 20 mm

Sheep:

• Styrofoam, 8 cm
• Styrofoam animal head, 6 x 4 cm
• Pure new wool / fleece, black
• Pure new wool / fleece, white
• Wool flakes for the eyes
• checkered ribbon in pink
• toothpick

Pig:

• Styrofoam animal head, 6 x 4 cm
• Styrofoam, 8 cm
• Pure new wool / fleece, black
• Pure new wool / fleece, white
• Pure new wool / fleece, beige
• Pure new wool / non-woven mottles pinks
• Pure new wool, mottled
• Puppet feet
• Buttons

And this is how it is done:
sheep
1. In the styrofoam the soil is cut off a bit, so that the figure has a good position later.
Second

Lay the white or black felt wool flat on the Styrofoam head and body in thin layers and then felt on / felt dry with the felting machine.
3. According to the photo, felt the details of the head and body with a felting needle.
4. Felt the ears separately on the foam pad and then felt on the head and body.
5. To attach the head use two toothpicks and stick the head to the felted styrofoam cone and fix it with hot glue.
6. Now the animal can be decorated according to taste with different decorative accessories (eg band). Proceed for the pig as well. Finally, stick the puppet feet under the body with hot glue.

Click here to download the manual.