Would you like to know how to quickly and easily needle felt wavy/curly fur?
In this video tutorial I show you how to create realistic luscious, textured waves of fur as seen on my spaniel’s floppy ears!
There’s no need to use curling tongs or make plaits or wind wool around knitting needles, waiting hours for wet curls to dry or even having to buy additional locks of curly wool. In fact all you need is just your wool (I use merino tops), your barbed needle and your fingers to make a twist!
I’ll also give you additional tips on blending wool colours!
This technique can be used on many needle felted animals. I hope you have fun with it like I did!
Here are the time stamps to easily navigate to the bits you would like to watch most :
0:00 Intro
01:41Adding darker colour wool as base fur
03:21 Blending wool colours: to prepare lighter tones
04:25 Let’s do the twist!
04:55 Stabbing into a wave shape
08:45 Trimming and finishing
I hope you enjoyed it and it gave you some new ideas.
What animal do you think are you going to add wavy fur to? please let me know in the comments – I’d love to know. 🙂
In my next video I’ll show you how I made his eyes.
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Thank you for these simple and precise instructions. I am supposed to make a dog for a 7 year old girl who has been battling 2 unusual strands of leukemia. She is supposed to get a long haired therapy dog eventually … your method of adding the curly long hair is great but from the way this is done, I wonder if the curly hair can be pulled out too easily (which any kid will do!) and if one can wash the dog without losing the looser hair (will have to be washed in the future given the age of the kid). thank you, Susanne
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Thank you-you are so talented! I will be using this on my cock-a-poo Wells. He was in a house fire and I don’t know how he managed to live! We lost his brother Swoop. I want to do Swoop next but he was white-not sure what color. Wells is apricot
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Oh my goodness your poor babies. What a lovely thing to do to honour and remember Swoop and also to celebrate Wells surviving. I’m so pleased this tutorial will help you. Please let me know how it goes. I’m desperate to get a cockapoo. Such beautiful intelligent dogs. 😍
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This was a great tutorial! Many thanks! (Your dog is awesome!)
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Thank you so much!
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