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Mini Sophie Felted Cat: in memory of Real Sophie

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Amanda Adebisi

Sophie. 🖤🤍

The most beautiful and sweet loving soul inside a fluffy black and white fur suit and with the most green eyes you ever did see. 🐈‍⬛

She had epilepsy her whole life but no illness she went through would stop her from being a snuggly cuddle bug and loving her under the chin rubs.

She was the sunshine cat! And perfect girl! She truly surpassed her 9 lives and was so determined and strong until she could be strong no more. 😪

How do you mend a heart that is broken from the loss of such a dear cat? 💔

Sweet Sophie belonged to my sister and she meant so much to me too as I cared for her like my own whenever her mum needed me to.

Sophie is sorely missed everyday as she has left the biggest pawprint on our hearts and we’ll remember her always. 🐾

It was a privilege to have time with my sister recently to complete a mini Sophie together out of wool in memory of real Sophie. My sister did so well being an absolute beginner in needle felting! 🙌

I think together we’ve captured Sophie’s sweet features such as her green eyes, her slim build, her cute white paws (one full white and one half white at the front), some black and some white whiskers (made of horsehair and real cat whiskers).

Mini Sophie will be treasured always just like the real one 🖤🤍

Have you ever made your own needle felted cat in memory of a real loved one?

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How to Attach Long fur to Your Cat Head

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Amanda Adebisi

Would you like to know how I needle felted the long fur on my Tabby Birman cat? 🐈

Here is a video tutorial with techniques of how to blend wool colours, plant (attach) long fur to your cat head, layer the wool pieces, reverse felt wool in some areas (for blending, gradients and fluffy fur), create tabby marking patterns and trim wool.

It’s great if you would like to make realistic cat fur!

This is part 3 of 5 in my series of Needle Felted Cat Head tutorials.

I hope you enjoy it 😊

Here is the next tutorial for making the cat ears.

Or if you would like to know how to do the whiskers then that part is here.

If you missed the previous 2 videos or would like to rewatch them:

  • Tutorial one for Needle Felting a Cat Head Shape is here.
  • Tutorial two for short fur is here.

There is also a time lapse video of the whole head showing footage of the amazing process from start to finish here.

Or if you’d like to see exactly how the cat’s eyes were made purely from wool, then you can watch the tutorial here.

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Needle Felted Eyes Tutorial 2: How to make Realistic Needle Felted Cat Eyes

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Amanda Adebisi

Would you like to know how to needle felt cat eyes that are detailed and realistic?  👁👁 

This is the second in the series of my Needle Felted Eyes Tutorials following on from tutorial 1 on dog eyes.

It has everything you’ll need for planning and creating wool eyes for a cat.

I’ll first teach you the theory – eye size and position, eye anatomy, eye colours, eye shape and pupil dilation, before then demonstrating how to needle felt eyes on my latest Tabby Birman cat pictured here.

If you have never tried to needle felt cat eyes before or weren’t too happy when you did try then I encourage you to have a go, follow the steps in this tutorial, experiment and see what you think. 🙂. 

If you already needle felted eyes before then I hope there is something in my video that will inspire you further.

Oh and beware of cute kitty footage along the way 🙂

Thanks for watching 🙂

What kind of cat eyes do you think you’ll have a stab at?

If you would like to know how I needle felted the cat head, made the ears, added the fur etc then these videos are here.

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