i figured i could practice my stabbing today so i picked up some stuff for needle felting this
is going to be my first time ever attempting something like this so it'll be interesting
i thought about painting with wool but then i settled on making some well-known
3d characters with wool instead i ended up buying this kid off amazon it looked
reasonably violent so i figured why not that looks fun that's a really really cute giraffe
greetings it includes this little useless pamphlet with super elementary instructions basically just
teaches you how to make a circle lucky for me though i already know how to make a circle
since it's pretty self-explanatory so i won't be needing that the kit also includes a couple
stabbing devices which is what i'll be using today oh and these little finger protector things
the kit pretty much includes everything you need so that's nice i'm not sure what
these are supposed to be for though and it also includes several little balls of felt
pretty much every color except for dark purple it has this nice light purple though so that's
something but yeah i was pretty disappointed about it since i wanted to make my arch nemesis
tinky-winky oh well maybe another day i'm starting off pretty simple this one's the little red ghosty
boy trevor rankin comment on this video or i'll make sure your next fart is a real surprise
who you guys probably know at this point trevor's the only original character of mine in this video
the rest are other characters that you'll probably recognize though so first i rolled up a little
red ball and poked it until it stuck together and there weren't too many little strands sticking out
al i wrapped some more red wool around it and kept poking it with the needle to shape the body
this is the point where the needle rudely broke into my finger guard i definitely
recommend wearing the finger protectors to avoid bloodshed if the needle had instead
stabbed into my finger that would have been bad very bad let me just stab that here
there you go quite a few of my needles ended up breaking by the time i got to the end of the video
it was pretty annoying but also moderately amusing the needles weren't very good quality but i guess
you get what you pay for once i had the basic shape down i poked two little balls of white
wool to make the eyeballs and then attached them to the body with more poking the kit included
these little black plastic things for pupils so i stuck those in as well and that's it for
him i think it's not too bad it's also not very complex but like i said starting off simple nice
and easy so then i moved on to attempting pickle the dinosaur pickle is one of mariah elizabeth's
most popular characters normally i like to stick to evil characters and pickle isn't very evil
but i decided to make mariahs and nerdy crafters most popular characters just as an homage of sorts
because i recently reached 10k and they played a huge role in that by sharing my channel and videos
throughout the year so yeah i wanted to thank them and thank you guys for all the love and support
you guys have given me you might be confused at this point because whatever the sub count is right
now it's a lot more than 10k i confess i made this video a little bit in advance before consulting
my fortune teller huge thank you to mariah for helping me out again i can't even express how
grateful i am thank you so much instead of making several little shapes and then attaching them
together i just kind of made a general dinosaur shape instead with a big piece of fluff i thought
this needle felting stuff was going to be really difficult but surprisingly it turned out to be one
of the easier things i've done even easier than paper squishies or filling out the create this
book two pages that being said this is my first time doing this so i didn't really have very high
expectations of myself i just kind of went in and stabbed everything let myself conscious i
mean subconscious take over i felt like i was in my element it was pretty relaxing actually
i paid close attention to poke around the nose and tail to shape it out as best as i possibly
could then i cut a small piece of dark green wool out for pickle spikes and poked it into shape
once i was happy with the way that was looking i stabbed it into pickles back i'm sure some
sparkle butt will get mad at me for stabbing pickle but i assure you the pain was necessary
of course i would never intentionally hurt pickle i cut two pieces of light green and started poking
them into long cylinders and then i cut those in half these are gonna be all his little dinosaur
limbs after that i shoved the eye things into the head which was actually pretty hard to do so that
ended up being a little bit of an issue i had to use the bigger needle and brute force to make it
work pickle was looking a little hairy there were a couple little excess hairs sticking out all over
the place so i tried to trim them up as best as i could the kit included shears these little clipper
things that are really good for cleaning up all the little hairs that are hanging off and making
it look a lot neater and then i decided to cheat um yeah because that's what the dark side was i
pulled out my tried and true posca and did some of the small little details like the toenails
and nostrils i'm just not patient enough so i took a shortcut i hope you don't mind quick side note
if you're new here and you've never smelled a dinosaur fart you should consider selling
your soul to me by subscribing to my channel don't forget to ring that bell icon thing so you don't
lose me on the internet i post new videos every friday so next up is nerdy crafter's salt shaker
this one's based off her salt shaker plushie i started off by making the white body which
i used my fingers to shape as i was poking the more you poke it the less the hair stick out so
it's really important to poke it a whole bunch in fact this whole stabbing process goes a lot faster
if you have one of those double or triple needle tool things i only have a single needle one so i
guess this whole process is gonna be delightfully slow and tiresome yay i liked making this one in
particular because there weren't any appendages hanging off i added a gray cap thing to the top
i think it's like part of the lid the bottom of it where you screw the lid on and then i
poked a big ball of dark green for the cap and added that to the top i ended up having to use
the thick needle thing to stick the eyes in again just because these black button things were still
making my life difficult even after i punctured a hole in for them they were still giving me
a bit of a hard time after that i pulled out my posca pens again for the eyebrows mouth and blush
oh and i also drew the little salt shaker holes with posca pens so there's that once
i was done with those three i decided to make a few more characters these two are a bit more evil
hey uh would you like to go to the movie sometime spring shall come come again
at this point i was getting a bit too confident in myself so i decided to try making gur from invader
zim one of you guys dragons is a huge fan of invader zim like me so this one's for her i took
some green felt and started stabbing the body into shape kind of succeeding but also kinda not this
one was probably the most difficult of the bunch in general each one so far took about 20 minutes
to make except for ger this one took forever i do feel like these would have been a little easier
if there was more wool to work with because of the limited amount of wool these ended up being
pretty tiny and having to make such tiny miniature things is obviously harder to do not really an
ideal situation at least for me the thing is this kit gives you a ton of wool but they don't really
give you much of each color so you can only make very tiny characters for the most part anyways i
poked a long piece of black into like a snake and cut it to make all of gurs little appendages and
then attach those into the body another thing about this kit was that the foam block was
starting to wear down quite a bit at this point making it harder to poke each character and get
the felt to stick to each other i don't know what to do about that it may seem like everything's
going wrong but i'm used to it i then added a small piece of pink for his tongue and a small
piece of gray for the zipper i poked two white balls and stuck them onto his face for the eyes
one of them is a bit bigger than the other yes well that'll sort itself out i'm sure just try
not to lose any sleep over it i proceeded to use a posca to draw on the stitches and the nose and
then i jammed in the pupils into his face i mean it's not perfect but i'm not too concerned with
perfection as long as you can recognize who it's supposed to be i'm happy that's good enough for me
and since i was already challenging myself i decided to go ahead and needle felt a minion
i guess minions aren't necessarily evil themselves but they're always ready to help someone who
is evil eager to be a part of that evil kind of like a henchman of the dark side so i'd say they
count this one also took a little bit longer than the others though i didn't struggle quite as much
as i did with ger i started off by poking a big yellow oval minions basically look like yellow
tic tacs so that's the shape i was aiming for then i took a ball of blue and stuck it to the bottom
this is supposed to be the bottom part of the overalls i poked a black strap around the head
and made a gray circle on his face for his goggles on top of that gray circle you can
see i added a ball of white fluff for his eye i also stabbed together a long tube of yellow and
chopped it up with a pair of scissors into little pieces for his little minion arms
i did the same thing for his legs but this time with blue this black piece is going to be cut up
into his gloves and boots critical accessories of course these bits were so tiny and i had to
attach them onto his flimsy little noodle arms which was nearly impossible so i resorted to
using some hot glue for that i punched in the black pupils and added some sparse black hair
on his head so he's not completely bald only a little bald and for my finishing touches i
brought out my posca pens again and painted on a smile some pockets and buttons on the overalls
this one's honestly a hot mess but i think there's no denying that it's supposed to be a minion so
that's a win overall i'd say it's not bad for a first try gir and the minion are slightly more
disheveled than the others but that's mostly because the foam board deteriorated so not
entirely my fault help help i've been stabbed click on the bottom right or top left to save me