Here at Take a Break, we’ve teamed up with the experts at Create and Craft to bring you this cute needle felted cat project to try. It’s easy to make and you can join the online ‘craftalong’ with Create and Craft’s Hayley.
HOW TO NEEDLE FELT
Watch our step-by-step craftalong videos below to see the basics of needle felting, then scroll down to make your own felted cat and rabbit.
HOW TO MAKE A FELTED CAT
HOW TO MAKE A FELTED RABBIT
HOW TO MAKE A NEEDLE FELTED CAT
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Draw an oval on the polystyrene egg and a small circle on the ball, then using your felting needle to make small stabbing motions, felt the wool on to them — white within the shapes, grey to cover the rest. Join the head and body using a cocktail stick, then wrap some more grey fibres around the neck and felt into place.
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Make two indents in the head with a cocktail stick, then insert the eyes. Then add a small amount of pink or peach an 8cm-long tail. Leave some loose fibres on one end of the sausages to help attach them.
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Felt some of the grey fibre on your sponge pad to create a 6cm x 8cm rectangle. From this, cut two small triangles for the ears and two circles roughly the size of a £2 coin. Add some pink or peach fibre to the ears, stabbing gently so they only show on one side.
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To create the legs, roll and stab the felt into a sausage 1cm in diameter. The back legs should be 2.5cm long, the front 7cm. Make a slightly thinner sausage for fibre to create a nose, pushing this into place with your needle. Twist the same fibre into a thin strand for the mouth and stab into place.
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For the back legs, felt the sausages to the bottom of the circles you cut. It should look like a snail shape. Then felt these and the front legs to the body. Create an ankle on the front paws fold 1cm at the end to a right angle then stab through so the fibres knit and hold the fold. Felt the ears in place. Then, to add stripes, twist small amounts of black fibre into thin lengths and stab into place.
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For the whiskers, cut two lengths of fishing line, push two holes through the face using your felting needle and thread the line through. Trim to the desired length.
