Felting Supplies & Kits
Felting is fun! You can create felted scarves, bags, hats, animals, sculptures, wall hangings and and and...Choose your felting project and the right felting method, wet or needle felting and go. Felting is easy to do and you can jump right in.
Ashford Wool Packs- Carded Corriedale Roving
Convenient seven color wool packs of Ashford's popular 30 micron Corriedale Roving pre-packaged in 100gm bags. The Ashford Corriedale Roving is made of 100% pure New Zealand wool.
It is perfect for all your fiber crafts including needle felting, wet felting, spinning, blending and carding. There are 6 collections to choose from - Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Pastels and Furry Friend.
Summer - green tea, kiwifruit, bean sprout, lime, mint, spearmint, green
Autumn - scarlet, orange, purple, magenta, tangerine, chilli pepper, raspberry
Winter - white, bubblegum, indigo, lagoon, blueberry, lilac, blue
Spring - cupcake, candy floss, marshmallow, pansy, strawberry shortcake, grape jelly, lavender
Pastels - white, honey, mint, lavender, cupcake, ice, apricot
Furry Friends - white, grey, chocolate, butterscotch, toffee, cookie, liquorice
Spring Summer Autumn Winter Pastels Furry Friends
Ashford Needle Felting Beginner Kits
Four cute needle felting kits from Ashford.
Kits include everything you need to make the projects except felting foam.
Ashford Needle Felting Kits including fiber, felting
needle and instructions. Choose
flowers, bugs, rooster or sheep.
Finished sizes:
Flower: 6.5cm H x 6.5cm W
Bugs: 2cm x 14cm L
Rooster: 17.5cm H x 17cm W
Sheep: 7.5cm H x 13cm W
Ashford Student Needle Felting Tool
Same great shape as above,
just a slightly smaller size, this
value priced felting needle punch lets you store your felting needles securely inside when
not in use. Clear, strong acrylic. Nice contoured handle. Three felting needles included.
Ashford Student Needle Felting Tool
Ashford Felting Needle Packs
You can never have too many felting needles. Choose from six different kinds: Replace the felting needles for your favorite felting needle tool or just hold these individually.
Spiral felting needles make felting faster while reducing the surface holes that other needles make.
Reverse felting needles have the barbs located in the opposite directions, pulling the fiber out while felting, allowing you to use these to create shaggy surface that work well for sculpting animals.
Fits all of the felting needle tools above. Choose from packs of 10 or pack of 100 and $ave!
Fibers for Felting and Spinning
Basic Felting Information
Felting with Felting Needles
Felting needles will enable you to create felt without the use of water or detergent. I allows you to felt or “sculpt” your work, add fine details and let your imagination run free. It is the prefect way to explore your fiber fantasies and create, create, create!
How do Felting Needles work?
These little needles have been used for many
years in the creation of commercial felt and are now being discovered by
individual felters. A felting needle has small “barbs” or “burrs”
on the shaft which, when it penetrates the wool catches the scales of the
wool thus felting it. This “up and down” or “punch” motion creates
friction and thus felts the wool.
What can I felt with a Felting Needle?
What can you not? Start out with a small project such as a coaster, a soap cover or a small critter. Then let your imagination run wild. You can create fine lacy scarves, fantasy figurines, toys, vests…
Felting with Soap and Water
Woolen fibers that are submerged in hot soapy water can be felted by rubbing and kneading. The friction plus heats opens the scales of the wool, allowing them to bond with each other permanently.
Felt is formed when sheep's' wool or animal fur is subjected to heat, moisture and pressure or agitation. Soap, or an alkaline environment, helps the felting process. Heat and moisture cause the outer scales along the fiber to open, and the soap allows the fibers to slide easily over one another thereby causing them to become entangled, thus producing felt.
What Fibers do I need?
As a rule of thumb you will experience that a finer wool will felt faster, meaning that a merino will felt a lot faster than a Romney for example. So…does that mean I always want to use the finest fiber I can? No, not necessarily, a coarser fiber, even though it may take longer to felt has it’s advantages: the created felt will be thicker and will be able to withstand wear better, which may be of advantage of items that are being used a lot (slipper soles, coasters etc.) So, why don’t I just use real coarse fiber then for everything? Well, you could, but no one will love a scratchy coarse scarf no matter how much love you put into its creation.
So…the bottom line is: Your fiber choice depends on your project and may vary. Just make sure you do not purchase super wash fibers or else you will be tying to make felt for the longest.
