So, I guess my three favorite creative activities right now are centering around felting, needle felting, and embroidery. Man if you haven't checked out needle felting, you are missing some serious opportunities to express all that pent up stress in your life!
Basically, needle felting is where you have two layers of animal fibers (wool, alpaca, mohair, angora, etc) and you stab them with a felting needle until they mush together. (A silly description, but the truth!) The fibers themselves are covered with small spikes (think about those shampoo commercials where you see "dry hair" up close in a microscope). The special needle you are stabbing with also has small prongs on it that agitate the fibers and make the little hair prongs grab onto each other! It is good for stress relief because you have to stab quickly, and a bunch of times for everything to felt together.
You can use this process to create 3-D figures or decorations, or like me, you can embellish a piece of felted crochet! All you have to do is make sure that the materials are 100% non-super wash wool. I save my yarn scraps for felting (as seen above), but lots of folks use "roving wool."
Here are a few of my needle felted projects!
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