Whether tigers or tortoises, field mice or feathered peacocks, artisanal creatures are a celebration of life itself. By Ligaya Mishan WITH EACH STAB of the needle, the fibers catch, twist and snarl.

Sachiko Susa, trans. from the Japanese by Leeyong Soo. Tuttle, $17.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-8048-5640-9 Needle felting designer Susa (Cute Needle Felted Animal Friends) shares an adorable if incomplete ...

Artist Lesley-Anne Green started out as a ceramist and then transitioned into doll making. But when she came across the art of needle felting, she never looked back. In a matter of hours, Green can ...

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This idea comes from our friend Manal Aman. Her cute companion is made by needle-felting. This technique involves sculpting shapes from unspun wool called roving by manipulating the fibers with a ...

Since July 2022, Karen Tran has been hiding needle-felted animal tchotchkes around Boston. The creatures are made by stabbing wool roving into the small, gumball-size rotund shape of a koala or a ...

Kiyoshi Mino is a farmer who needle-felts incredibly realistic small animals for fun. The Illinois native had no intention of being an artist–or a man of the land, for that matter–but two stints in ...

“Felted Friends,” a lesson in how to make a needle-felted animal, will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 5, at the Novato Public Library at 1720 Novato Blvd. The lesson will teach ...

Needle felting is one of those cool crafts that can yield incredible, lifelike masterpieces—or fuzzy, misshapen blobs of wool you pretend were intentional. This post from r/Needlefelting features both ...

Gayle Mathues is a local fiber artist specializing in needle felted sculptures. “I have always been interested in art and being creative,” she said, adding that her parents gave her a drawing set when ...