Improve Your Needle Felting Effectiveness & Efficiency: Understanding Your Tools with Stephanie Metz

[@valerie-og4ui]

This was by far the most informative workshop regarding Knowing Your Needle -felting Tools. You presented this information with useful information, enthusiasm and experience. You covered very basics , which In my experience have been left for the felted to discover only to feel unsatisfied and frustrated with the finished project. Excellent presentation ! I thank you and look forward to applying these much needed tools to the craft.

[@shelleyatwood]

I fell down the rabbit hole this morning when I found one of your wool "paintings" on Instagram. That let me to your website which led me to your KZbin channel. I tried needle felting a decade ago and loved it. But, I was thoroughly engrossed in polymer clay at the time. However, I kept thinking about how to combine the two in jewelry. This morning, I watched your In Touch video which was completely enchanting. I'm afraid you are forcing me to go back to trying needle felting again. I've got a little kit that someone gave me which I'll try before figuring out what else I want. Your online class sounds intriguing too. I should also say how much I enjoyed looking at your paintings and sculpture. Their organic nature is right up my alley. Thanks for all the great info, inspiration and temptation!

[@MsColleenMiller]

Brilliant Tutorial. Thanks Stephanie

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Thanks, I hope it's been helpful to you!

[@Dollectable_Dreams]

Wonderful through information very useful for anyone!!!

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Thank you again!

[@ellee4598]

This is so helpful!!!

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

I'm glad, happy felting!

[@GuyG.KTalesOfAnimals]

Holy crap your work is CRAZY incredible

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Thank you!

[@antoniahubancheva7907]

Thank you so much for taking the time to explain the basics in such detail. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of any process is critical for further improvement. It might look boring to some people but if you don't get it now, later you anyway have to come back and spend even more time. :)

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Thanks for your message, I appreciate it! I think this info is probably useful to a fairly small subset of people, but heck, those are MY people! 😊

[@silverstar603]

Thank you for posting this ♥

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

You're welcome, I hope it made some things clear for you!

[@nafisha1694]

thankyou sooo much for the workshop, it helps my final campus project, looking forward for ur next video

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

You're welcome, glad it helped!

[@michaelleaver9625]

I have been looking for your next video but cant find it. I do love the tool review and wonder what you think of the hand held electric felting tools

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Hi Michael, I'm glad you're interested in learning more. This video is a free excerpt from my online video-based master class in sculptural needle felting to give potential students a taste of my teaching content and style. For the full workshop you can go to courses.stephaniemetz.com . The full class is not free-- it's over 24 hours of content, about half of which is taking the student through techniques, and the other half is following along as I make particular sculptures. And I'm not a huge fan of the hand-held electric tools; I find that I need to feel the resistance as I work, and I don't think it saves a lot of time... but I reserve the right to change my mind some day.

[@sonyamacdonald7917]

What a wonderful video! Thank you for putting this together and sharing your knowledge. Many of my questions were answered in one spot. ♥

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Yay, I'm so glad to hear that. 😁

[@JustJaeda]

I'm so glad I came across this video when I did! Thank you for making this video. It sort of reminds me of something that would have been broadcasted on PBS in the earlier 2000s. I do have a question. I have seen a lot of felting needles with terms like "heavy". From what I gather, that means it has a higher gauge? Have you ever come across poor quality needles that just don't pierce through the wool? If so, how can you tell the difference between a "good" and "bad" needle? Thanks!

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Hi Jaeda, thanks for your comment and question! I think the term 'heavy' must refer to coarse, low-gauge needles, meaning bigger thickness and bigger notches, meant for more coarse fiber. I imagine if a needle isn't piercing through the wool that means it's too coarse for the fineness of the fiber, snagging so many of the fine fibers on the big notches that it can't really go through. The same kind of thing happens when you try to felt through a woven textile that's has a fairly tight weave-- the needle just snags. I would try a medium or fine gauge needle. I haven't come across poor quality needles as far as I can tell, it seems more like a mismatch between size of needle and fiber. If anyone else wants to chime in, I'm curious to hear others' experience.

[@JustJaeda]

@@StephanieMetzSculpture Wow! I will look into the gauge as the issue rather than the brand! Thank you so much for the response!

[@bernardoalvarez4650]

😍😍😍

[@StephanieMetzSculpture]

Thank you!