- We're doing something a little different today.
Let's just...
All of this.
Uh, yeah, this-
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Okay.
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So, I got stuff to...
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To do Needle felting and there's a lot of it here.
This is really exciting.
So, I've never done this before
and I learned that you can either make like stuffed animals
or you can do like needle felted painting.
Needle Felted Painting.
Like people make pictures and it looks so cool.
So, I want to try that.
I have never done this before, as I said, and (indistinct)
it even came with this like thing a tools.
Let me show you something.
First, I got to get all the stuff I dropped.
Where, were we?
I have to show you the wildest looking tool that comes
in the set.
You see that thing?
There's like eight needles on it.
And then there's some other little needles, lots of stuff.
There's tweezers, glue sticks.
I don't know.
Why would I need a glue stick, these little leather things.
So, you don't hurt your fingers. You know?
Wait, it actually goes like this though.
There's a lot of cool stuff in this set.
And...
So many colors - to choose from.
So, depending on how ambitious I am, we might try
both a painting and a stuffed animal sort of thing.
I'm not sure yet.
I've actually been trying to learn about all this stuff
like before I started and my friend
Brenda does this and she's so good at it.
She does like the painted needle felting.
And I'll ask her if I can put some
of her art right here in the video, because it'd be so cool;
and her Instagram in case, you want to follow her.
But she helped me so much on FaceTime the other day.
We had like a little crash course
and then I'm also watching a class
on Skillshare, just to learn how to do
like the stuffed animal portion of needle felting
and that's been really helpful too.
So, I'm really excited to actually try it now.
I've mostly just been watching other people do it.
So, yeah,
So, let's just hop into this
and then we'll find out what we're doing.
I also have like a bunch of sheets
of felt because this is like the base for your painting.
So Hey, yeah, let's try it.
We're going to start small.
Here's the little cushion.
I think it's better to start small since I'm new at this.
I don't want to get in over my head.
Okay, I Couldn't find my large fabric scissors
so this is what we're using.
I just need this to fit on here.
(material cutting)
Save all these scraps
I always find uses for this stuff.
(material rubbing)
Okay, there are some tools in here
like eyes for those stuffed animals
various little like clips. Stuff for jewelry and whatnot.
I'm not sure how much I will use the stuff in here
but I do have all of these things out and ready.
There's also a lot of colors.
So, yeah, they're all over my floor right now.
Ah, this will be exciting.
(plastic rustling)
You know, it's really satisfying
to see all these colors everywhere.
Oh, they're just so pretty,
but I wish they would have eliminated all this plastic
and found a way to make it more sustainable.
This is a lot of plastic wasted.
Okay, So the first thing I was told to do is
like lay the stuff across;
So I found these two, three
four similar colors and I'll try it.
So here is our little wool thing.
This stuff is so satisfying.
This is neat.
We're literally going to be like painting with wool.
So I'm just going to start laying it across
and right now, and this is kind of
like an underpainting of sorts, I'm assuming.
Don't come for me if I have all the terminology wrong,
I'm still learning.
Anyway...
Lay it across,
and then I was told to flip the excess under
after this is all down.
I have been so excited to do this for months.
Okay, I'm going to use this guy here and see how it goes.
Am I doing it right? I don't know.
Wow, It's sticking!
This is the coolest thing.
(upbeat music)
All right, this is where we're at right now.
It feels like a cloud.
I love it.
And it sticks to the piece of styrofoam now
because I've poked it so many times.
So, before we finish making everything with all this wool,
I want to thank Skillshare for sponsoring today's video.
Skillshare is... it's such a fun platform
with thousands of classes to choose from.
So, I mentioned at the beginning of this video
that my friend Brenda helped me figure out how to go
about all this needle felting stuff
and she was such a help, but Skillshare also helped me too
because I got like lost
in this rabbit hole of needle felting classes
and it really inspired me to just dive in.
I also just redid my studio space
and Skillshare has like really unique classes to brighten
up your living area.
I actually just took a class called "Plants at home:
Uplift your spirit and your space." By: Christopher Griffin
A.K.A. Plant Queen on Instagram
and it was so helpful.
And if needle felting or plants does not interest you;
There are painting classes -
ceramics, interior design, film, so many other things.
And now, because the intentions
of Skillshare is this learning community.
They really want to make sure you can focus in
on the things you want to learn about.
So there are no ads. Nothing's going to interrupt your flow.
So, I'm excited about that plant class.
I'm excited about needle felting
and I think something really special
about Skillshare, this holiday season, is there's just
so many classes where you can learn a new skill
like this, and you can make a handmade gift
that just means a lot to somebody that you love.
So I'm actually making this needle felted piece for my mom,
and that's why I'm really thankful
that I found all those classes because I get to, like
give something really meaningful to somebody that I love.
Skillshare is also super duper affordable
and annual subscription is less than $10 a month,
and if you want to try out Skillshare
the first 1000 subscribers to click that link
in my video description
will get a free trial of Skillshare premium.
So you can totally check out
that plant class by plant queen that I just mentioned
or you could try needle felting or just anything you want,
really.
Thanks, again, Skillshare for sponsoring today's video.
Let's get back to doing the little stabby things
with the needle felting thing.
So my mom actually lives in Florida
and she lives pretty close to the beach.
So I think it would be really special
for her to have a beach picture.
So, that's what we're going to do.
Part two.
(upbeat music)
(plastic rustling)
Whoa, this is so pretty.
Look at that.
I would like to do the tree line here in the background.
I think I might have to scoot it up higher, though.
Like that.
(upbeat music)
I think I'm going to have to do this more often.
I think I just found a new creative outlet, so fun.
I'm really excited to try blending.
(upbeat music)
So I don't know if you can tell
that I'm like twirling pieces of wool
for texture and I love the effect of it.
Wow, so fun.
I think I'm gonna really enjoy shading.
Hmm. What color should I do for the beach?
So many choices, yeah, choosing a beach color.
That sounds interesting.
Doesn't it?
Here's the part where I got sidetracked making
wool mustaches for myself with these pieces.
Good times were had.
Anyway, for this part, I'm going to be voiceover
because as you have heard earlier in the video
this is quite the noisy project.
And for those of you who, like myself, do not like A.S.M.R.
it is not a fun experience to hear that kind of stuff.
So yeah, I kept a little bit of it in for the curious
but we're moving it on from those noises.
I can't take it even as I'm editing.
So let me tell you about my experience.
This was way easier to blend
colors than I anticipated
and I learned that very quickly
as I was doing this beach scene.
So, this sand here
you can see like closer to the horizon, it's a lot darker
and then I brightened it as I came to the foreground.
That was a really fun experience.
It was really intimidating at first because you know
it's a completely different method of creating a picture.
This is not with paint, so I
didn't know how it was going to go
and I'm not the best at like knitting and crocheting
so, that also intimidated me
but this is completely different.
And yeah.
Now one thing I did learn that was;
I would say it wasn't very surprising
but this is a very, very, very time consuming activity.
Even though this little picture here,
well, is very little.
It took me almost the whole day.
I'm not even joking.
So yeah, it took a long time.
And I just want to also verbally state a warning.
If you try this, I was not being very careful
with this and I did hurt myself.
So like, if you do this
please follow more safety precautions
than you're seeing here because, yeah,
I would strongly advise that.
The water was really, really fun to do.
I got to use all these bright blues
and just swirl stuff around and make waves.
These needles are really sharp.
Be careful.
All right, The sea foam is going to be white
so, that's exciting.
I think we're pretty much at
the point now where we can start like
shading and... (gasp)
I should do clouds.
Yeah, we're gonna, we're going to have
so much fun with this.
I'm gonna take you down here now.
(plastic crunching)
Okay, This is the most fun part, I think.
Is like doing these little swoop, uh, just textures.
(Electronic music)
I think something that made this needle felted
painting really fun for me was the clouds
in the background, because at first it almost felt
like the piece just wasn't coming
to life until I did those little swirly-swoop things;
and if you look at this painting from the side
you'll notice that the clouds have a lot more texture
to them than they appear from the front.
Also, I use the same white
for the clouds as I'm using for the sea foam right now
because I went back into the ocean water and decided, Hmm
this needs something more.
And you can see here that I'm also using the smaller needles
because I'm doing smaller details
and I take the bigger tool every now and then,
but at this point
on I pretty much needed this smaller tool a lot more
than I thought I would.
So, that was kind of fun to test
out all the different tools in this kit.
I didn't use like a lot of the eyes and stuff like that
because I ended up not having time to do a three-dimensional
needle felted, stuffed animal sort of thing in this video.
So yeah, today we only did needle felted painting
but it was really fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I cannot recommend this enough.
If you're looking for a new hobby, this is a good one.
I think I'm going to go to my local yarn shop.
Oh look, I tried to juggle, Hey, I can't juggle.
Oh, I, I really fail at juggling.
Eh, yeah.
Let's not do that again.
Anyway, I'm going go to my local yarn shop and
probably get bulk wool because I think I want to
do some bigger pieces with this
sort of thing.
Oh my goodness.
This is so cool.
(material ripping)
Look at that, It's like a rug.
(gasp)
So, If you're wondering what I'm doing right here.
I am tucking everything over to the back of the canvas,
sort of wrapping it around
and then attaching it with the same tool I used
for the front to give it a polished up look.
All right, we finished our needle felting piece
and this is how it turned out.
I'm really excited about it.
And it really does feel like a beach.
It's a little smaller
than I thought it would be after I folded the edges over.
But you know, it's a learning curve.
You learn as you go.
So my next step for this, I think will be to
try to find some sort of like shadow box to fit this in
and then I will give it to my mom in like a shadow box
because I think that would be really pretty for Christmas.
She has no idea that I learned how to do needle felting.
So I'm just so excited to give this to her.
She loves beaches and yeah-
also this thing is so light.
I probably shouldn't be doing that. Huh?
If you want to see me do a giant painting with wool.
Let me know,
Cause I kind of want to do like a really
big needle felted painting.
I could do like a conservatory.
I don't know.
This sounds so fun.
Thank you so much for watching
and I hope you have a good day.
Bye.