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Would you like to create your very own Mr Bumbley Bee?
Now you can with this beautifully illustrated and detailed, step by step tutorial with over 250 instructional photos across 108 pages to show you 7 stages to create your own giant bumble bee.
He’s a giant fluffy gorgeousness that you can be brave to have him sit on your hand as he’s made of wool and much too much of a gentleman to sting you. His body is made of soft wool tops and his legs and antennae are shaped with pipe cleaners. His wings are made of organza with hand sewn stitching with white embroidery silks.
You’ll learn techniques including: basic armature making, reverse needle felting, long fur technique, wrapping wool and embroidery of wing patterns.
Includes Bee Anatomy diagram, Size Guides with wing template, Felting safety advice and Care instructions for your finished bee.
Mr Bumbley Bee – Needle Felting Tutorial – PDF download
Step by step tutorial to create your own giant bumble bee.
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You will learn how to:
– Twist pipe cleaners together to form a basic armature structure.
– Emphasise the leg segments and antennae by adding small pieces of wool to them.
– Wrap wool over the armature and build up layers of wool to sculpt a bee shape.
– Use a reverse needle to create fluffy bumble bee hair.
– Create the bee’s white tail using a long fur technique.
– Add depth of colour to the yellow bands.
– Make wing shapes from organza material and hand sew a pattern and attach wings.
Here’s a preview of some of the pages you’ll find in the PDF tutorial;
Please contact me with any questions. I hope you have fun making your very own Mr Bumbley Bee!
I would so love to see your bee creation, so please post a photo of him on Instagram with #mrbumbleybee.
Needle felted bumble bee
Here is my first attempt at a needle felted bumble bee. I gave it to my sister for her birthday last week. My sister’s name Melissa means ‘honey bee’ but she loves bumbley bees as they are so fluffy looking! I was brave enough to let it sit on my hand without any worries about being stung. Good job as it is much larger than life size!
I started off using black pipe cleaners as legs and antennae. I twisted them together in the middle to form the base for the body. I trimmed the pipe cleaners with small angled nail scissors to accentuate the leg segments and added tan coloured wool..
I tightly wound yellow, black and white merino wool tops over the middle section to form the head, thorax and abdomen and added more and more of the merino on top to build up the height. I needle felted the body with a barbed needle to sculpt into a bee shape. To create a furry bumble bee look I then used a reverse felting needle to pull out the fibres and added a layer of rusty orange over the yellow to give the colour more depth. (Note I didn’t use a cream colour core wool for this piece to ensure that only the pure colours I wanted came through when I used the reverse needle not any underlay of core wool fibres).
I had to get really creative for the wings. I searched my stash of crafty bits and ended up cutting out wing shapes from a silvery coloured organza bag and then hand sewed the pattern on each wing by hand with white embroidery thread.
Here are a few photos of the work in progress of how I started.
I am so pleased that my sister adored him!!
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