your video was so helpful, informative and hilarious. Thanks so much for sharing

i’ve just found your channel as a beginner needle felter and i’m in love! your voice is so soothing and your tips are so helpful. thank you!!

I found your fun-filled videos easy to follow and look forward to making some animals and landscapes

I love the sound effects you have used they made me laugh. You have done a wonderful job of explaining things and making it fun. I’m really excited to start felting!

Thanks so very much! I am just beginning, after receiving a starter felting kit from my brother as a surprise gift (what an awesome brother!) Your videos are “right up my alley”…as a retired scientist, I really appreciate your studies of different supplies and techniques, and your fine attention to detail! Your finished animals are fantastic! With gratitude, from the west coast of Canada.

Felting with 'Chummy' :) <3 Felting just got ten times better. :)

I wish I had watched this BEFORE I started with my first project! Now I'm watching this to hopefully fix some things I spent HOURS on. Thank you for these easy to follow instructions! Is is my third video of yours I've watched and I am now so excited about the amazing felting projects I might be able to pull off now.

This video is lovely❤ thank you so much

I know this is two years later, but phones have a way of knowing what craft I’m doing and recommend things to me. So you popped up. I bought a kit similar to the one you showed first, and it was wonderful to get a variety of needles and colors. The best part was mine came with little eyes and fastenings. The foam mat and needle holder had me quickly buying a small wool mat and better needles along with better quality wool. My first project was a little cat tucked into a teddy bear costume. So cute, but awful. With the kit mentioned ABOVE, however, I’d gained enough confidence to make some Christmas ornaments for a friend. Such a fun craft.

Felting, the perfect craft for making cute little fluffy toy animals, as presents for your friends & family, rather than taking out your needles on voodoo dolls & cursing your enemies, perfect art therapy. 😆✌️

So darn cute ❤️ I’m working on my own felted cat right now and using this as inspiration, love the video!

Thanks!

THIS is the way to film a tutorial! Experience and humour - love it!

Thank you so much!! I have started needle felting lately and all of your videos are AMAZING!!

I was taught to create a hoop for the head, but I've found it tricky as when I come to felt the head the hoop can be a point of resistance. Do you attach the head as a single ball of wool?

Would like to add a shaggy brown donkey and a Highland cow (yes, I know there were no heelancoo in Bethlehem) to my nativity scene. While I’m sure they’re very well made and worth it, I don’t fancy paying $80 each for them! Thanks to you, I now think I may be able to do this myself. I’ll live my wonky donkey!

I've only done 2D needle felting before now so I've been watching your videos and I've found them very helpful. Thank you!

I needle painted for a while. I found I could make small amounts of blended colours on small hand carders. So if someone is starting off you need not purchase oodles of colours but blend your own. Once you know the main shades you like then you can buy larger quantities in a limited number of colours/shades/tones.

Thank you for this video. I got a felting kit for Christmas and as a brand new beginner I was making every mistake possible 😂

Love it!

Cute panda 🐼 ❤❤❤😊

Glad to find this. I'm about to embark on my first project and wasn't sure how easy it would be to fix some inevitable rookie mistakes.

I am interested in learning in needle felting so I can eventually make a nativity scene

How do I make a scale model armsture

Thank you!!! 👏👏

Wow! You are a true artist. The details are blowing my mind here! I am dying to try needle felting. Just stopped by to check it out

If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying!

Thank you so much for sharing this!

I brought needles that have large,medium & small how do I work out what gauge they would be? I’m just starting out this video I found very helpful & just purchased the ones you are using 🙏

Incredible video! You make it all look so simple. I like your methodology for creating shapes.

yeah, premade felt is a cheat, but who cares lol

Thank you for helping me to understand where I’m going wrong!

Love the way you showed how to use a template and how to felt around it and then in it, creating the shape you want. Truly clever.

Thank you, great video!

Still come back to your Barney pdf for tips. Your channel has helped me dramatically build and improve my skills and its always lovely to see a new video. 😊

Wow that's amazing, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful tips 😘

Hi 👋 I've just found your channel, and would like to say how lovely it is to watch. You manage to answer felting questions so easily, without any fuss. Thank you 😘

I sincerely appreciate your attention to detail and ability to convey the subtlety between tools and types of wool, techniques and options. I trust artists that endeavor to know their materials innately. You spend quality time with what you work with and it shows. ❤ secondly- you have BEAUTIFUL nails/skin. Just wanted to let you know that. As a woman in my thirties, I can admire the lustre, the sheen and texture of your cuticles and nail beds. Those are quality genes you have there. 😊

I dont know why but I have NEVER thought to pin the pieces together before i felt them. I've always just awkwardly held it in place with one hand and felted with the other. This is a game changer!! 😀

Really loved this. Your a great teacher. Thanks so much.

Thank you! I find your videos so helpful and filled with easy tips and tricks to improve my felting 💚 and they are fun too 😁

I absolutely love your channel and videos Julie!! Thank you so much for them! Love from Brazil ‧˚₊ ⊹♡︎໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ꒱ྀིა♡₊ ⊹˚₊‧

Your videos are the BEST. Thank you so much for all of your help. I’m becoming quite addicted to needle felting now 🥰

how do you make sure your eyes don’t fall out?

The yarn ball took you so long because you kept putting it down to stab it. To wind a nice round yarn ball, you can just start with a few loops of yarn you fold onto themselves, and then you wrap the yarn around it in one direction at first. Once that is wrapped, you do a set perpendicular to the first. And then a set covering the 'top and bottom'. Keep making sets in different directions. Your ball will look like a Zauberball (google it). The final layer can be wrapped all over to even it out. And then covered in felting wool.

Love your videos Julie ❤

I thought I'd share a tip I discovered the other day: if you, like me, have trouble pulling big hanks of wool out or pulling them apart, get some thinning shears. They're meant to be used on hair, and they have one sawtooth blade, which makes uneven cuts that are much more like pulling the wool apart. I have some dyspraxia, so anything that lessens the amount of strength required of my hands is better for me.

I've been wanting to get back into needle felting but the repeated stabbing motion really hurts my wrists. That tip about making a little ball of yarn first sounds incredibly helpful, thank you for that! 🥰

Hey Julie, Merry Christmas from the Fam in Lancaster👋

Helpful advice thank you 🙏