New kit: Heart Felt Garland
The new needle felting kit - the Heart Felt Garland!
14th February 2021
It’s Valentine’s day and I’m feeling pretty loved up! I really wanted to bring that into the new kit this month! I’ve also loved all of the rainbow art that I’ve seen everywhere over the past few months. Rainbows have been adopted as the symbol for so many causes but at their heart, they stand for hope. Right now, I’m hoping for an end to lockdown and a return to a more normal way of life. But more than that, I’m hoping we can carry on all the positive things from this past year; more remote working, seeing more of our kids and getting more in touch with nature!
Needle felting
If you’ve not tried needle felting, you should! I’ve such a beautiful, accessible craft. You really don’t need special skills so you can jump right in a get creative, making 2D art or 3D sculptures. You start with handfuls of fluffy wool which you stab repeatedly with a special felting needle. This action meshes the wool fibres together and creates felt in any shape you like!
My introduction to this craft was creating a dog sculpture, it was super fun but I find that, when you’re new to needle felting, animals can come out looking a little off. I always make sure that Craft Box Club craft kits are really easy for beginners and that anyone can get a great result. That’s why I love the heart shapes in this garland. They are so familiar and easy to sculpt. They also feel so nice and squishy in your hand!
Top Tips for beginners
Start simple - Just get used to the action to begin with, craft a simple shape in one colour
Believe! - This is one of many crafts which a little patience really pays off. It’s hard to believe that stabbing some wool with a needle will do anything at all, but stick at it will all happen in front of your eyes!
Be careful! - Felting needles are really sharp and it’s easy to get distracted while your felting. Make sure you keep your fingers out of the way.
Get the right kit - There are a range of grades of felting needle out there. Some will felt fast but will be hard to get the detail, others will take ages to get a result. Do your research before you buy, or, hey let us do that for you and grab this kit.
Get creative - Experiment with loads of different shapes and colour combinations.
Craft plastic free - It’s really not been a challenge to make this kit plastic free. If you want to take this craft further, buy awesome quality wool and ask for plastic free packaging. I buy from World of Wool who will pack plastic free on request and have great natural products in beautiful colours.
The heart garland!
These materials are awesome!
As usual, this kit is plastic free, that’s the packaging, the materials and the tools! It’s such a cool kit to open, the first thing that will catch your eye is a brightly coloured rainbow of wool! You’ve got just the right kind of felting needle and some brilliant heart templates to make your shaping super simple!
Another great thing about this kit is that you get some stuff that you can reuse for other creative fun! The heart templates can be used as cookie cutters and the sponge (made of wood fibres) which you use as a base for felting, can or course be reused as a kitchen sponge or for various other more artistic purposes.
The needle felting craft box!
Go Get creative
I just know this kit is going to be a hit!
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