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Amazing Sculptural Needle Felt Artists

This is my Top 5 list of needle felt artists that I draw my inspiration from. 

Birgitte Krag Hansen

Andrea Graham

Deborah Pope

Stephanie Metz

Sharon Costello

 

 

Needle Felting Suppliers

These are my main suppliers, I highly recommend all of them!

 

New England Felting Supply

C1 Norwegian Felting Batts available in many colors.

C1 is my all-time favorite wool for needle felting.  Once you try C1 it is hard to settle for anything else.

Smaller Quantities and Sampler Packs are Now Available !!

Coming soon to their new website but for now, just contact them for more info!

 

 

 Winderwood Farm

Bob's eBay shop is the place to go to for felting needles and hand-dyed wool.

These are the same needles I use in my kits except Bob's are not dipped in rubber.  I do that myself.

I purchase Fine (40 t) as my all around general needle.  It's my workhorse

Star (38 star) for fine details and surface finishing

Coarse (36 t) for attaching parts together.

Felting needles break easily so make sure to order spares!

 

 

Frene Creek Farm

  This is the place to go for fiber for hair.  They have a huge selection of wool locks and are most helpful!

 Laurie is so helpful, I include her hand dyed Cotswold Locks from Frene Creek Farm in all of my kits.

 

Zeilinger Wool Company

A fiber mill in Michigan where I buy all of my core wool. 

It's their 100% White Craft Wool/Felting Batt .  I start all my projects out with this wool batting.  It is a dream to needle felt with!  Must be purchased by the pound.  A pound may seem like a lot of wool but I go through more core wool than any other wool and it is essential to have a good supply.   

 

Lori Flood Felted Fibers

For flesh colored C1 Norwegian Felting Batts - it is simply gorgeous for needle felting

Lori also carries Norwegian Felting Batts that are a C1/Pelssau blend-  The Pelssau wool in the blend makes the colors very heathered.  She has many lovely color choices!

 

 

FeltCrafts

This is a great site for felters.  I purchase my felting pads there.  I searched high and low for the perfect felting pads and these are it!

 

 

The Lavender Fleece

For gorgeous icelandic wool batts.

I love using Icelandic Wool Felting Batts when I needle felt animals.  While Icelandic Wool is very coarse and hairy, it felts like a dream.   It is such beautiful wool and retains some lanolin which makes my hands so soft when I needle felt with it.  They have great lavender products as well as a beautiful website! 

 

 

Mielke's Fiber Arts

For beautiful Merino Top and a huge selection of felting books.  I use Merino in very small quantities in my needle felted characters.  I use it for eye color, shading and hair.  A sampler pack will go a very long way for needle felting but I love all the colors at my disposal. 

 

 

 

 

 

Needle Felting Community

Felting & Needle Felting Forum

This is the most amazing forum with felt makers from all over the world sharing knowledge and inspiration.  It's a wonderful group and I am so happy to be a part of it.

 

Felting Forum Friends on Flickr

Flickr is such a wonderful photo sharing site.  My friends at the Felting Forum have gotten together and formed the most amazing photo collection of felted art!  You must take a look!!

 

 

Needle Felting Websites

Here is the beginning of my list of websites that feature needle felting.  Contact me with a link and I will be glad to add it to this list.

Maurine's Fiber Friends

Maurine Adrezin is a talented fiber/doll artist.  She uses many different mediums including needle felting to create her fiber friends.  There is so much to look at on her website! 

 Needle Felting, by Janel Van Alstyne

Janel's Needle Felted Dolls are just wonderful.  She has a very unique and wonderful style.  Her line of puffy cheek Peops are great. 

Needle Felting Fans

Linda has put together a great website dedicated to the art of needle felting.

Ull och krull

A talented needle felt artist from Sweden, Gunilla creates sweet angels and dogs (and cows too!) 

Stacy Polson

You just have to visit this website and see the beautiful and intricate tapestries of this amazing needle felt artist.

 

 

 

 

Needle Felting Blogs

If you share your passion with needle felting with the world on a blog, I want you my list! Please contact me with your blog url and I will include it here. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Cool Websites

not necessarily related to needle felting

 

Yosemite Antiques

Take a break from all things needle felting and stop in and browse the treasures at Yosemite Antiques.  Bonnie and David are good friends and really know their business! 

 

Crispina

Wonderful products made from recycled sweaters and other kinds of clothing.  I can actually trace the root cause of my needle felting addiction to a visit to Crispina.com.  After drooling over the gorgeous stuff, I was inspired and started buying and shrinking (now I know the process is called fulling)  beautiful second-hand wool sweaters.  Searching the web for creative ways to use my newfound treasures of felted wool fabric, I stumbled across needle felting.  Well - the sweaters are in plastic bags in the back of the closet but maybe someday... 

 

  Fairbanks Weavers and Spinners Guild

A great group of Alaskan fiber artists of which I am lucky to be a member of.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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