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Get all Level 3 Sleeping Aussie Babies in one go! Start with the Koala, then onto the Platypus and Shingleback, with the Hopping Mouse as the cherry on the cake. This bundle is great for advanced needle felters who want to really get into the nitty gritty.
As a guideline, you will need the following to create all four Level 3 Babies:
- Dark Romney Core about 45-49 gms
- Light Romney Core about 6-8 gms
- Dark Chocolate Merino, about 5-7 gms
- Camel Merino, about 3-5 gms
- Grey Brown Merino, about 2 gms
- Mixed Light Grey Merino, about 2 gms
- Red Brick, Pink Skin and Black Merino, about 1gms of each colour
- Cupcake Merino, less than 1 gm
- Nutlet Merino, less than 1 gm
- Glacier Merino, less than 1 gm
- Pale Silk Tussah, about 2-3 gms
- Black Silk Tussah, about 3 gms
- Clay Silk Tussah, about 1-2 gms
- Brown Hamanaka Core 6 x 5cm square, 1 gm
- Raw Bronze Corriedale 3-5 gms
- Raw Gold Corriedale 2-3 gms.
- Dark Grey Corriedale 15 gms.
- Light Grey Corriedale 10 gms.
- Dark brown Corriedale Roving 5 gms.
- Raw alpaca about 5 gms
- Fake white cashmere, less than 1 gm
- 1 x 46cm length of florist stem cloth wire 18 gauge
- 1 x 46cm length of florist stem cloth wire 22 gauge cut in half.
- 1 x 104cm length of silver florist wire 26 gauge cut into four.
- 45cm 12 gauge Aluminium floral wire
- 1 x 46cm length of brown florist stem cloth wire 18 gauge
- 1 x 360mm length of silver florist wire 30 gauge
- Strong black thread, 2 metre
- 1.5m 8 amp fuse wire
- 44cm 26 gauge florist wire
- Small section of false eyelashes
- 2 black glass beads about 6mm
Tools you need:
- Size 32, 36, 38, 40 and reverse needle
- Hand Sewing Needle
- Felting foam (any foam will do, like a car sponge)
- Hot water bottle
- Liquid soap
- Cup with hot water
- Small Paint brush
- Iron
- Large Dressmakers scissors
- Pointy tipped scissors
- Curved nail scissors
- Curved, pointy spring loaded pliers
- Small Pliers
- Tape
- White and craft glue
- Toothpick
- Clover felting brush
- Large Comb
- White, Yellow, Black, Blue, Red and Brown oil pastels
- Bronze Metallic, Woodsy Brown, Misty Blue and Pink Flamingo permanent markers
- Digit tool (repurposed flossing tool, a new one of course)
- Artists Sealer Spray Matt
Why don't you give it a try. One stab at a time, I can guarantee you will enjoy it.
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"When I was first looking into needle felting, it was all very overwhelming. Where to purchase needles, where to get wool and the biggest question, where to start. There were many projects and kits on the market but most of them were overseas and would end up costing twice as much as they were worth.
I ended up on a Facebook page and asked the usual newbie questions, where to buy wool, where to buy needles, are there any kits around. I received many answers pointing me to sites I’d already visited and decided they were not for me.
Finally I received a message from a lovely lady. She was helpful, very straight forward in her recommendations, her information and her advice. Her advice helped set me on my way in the felting world.
Her name is Reena Lee and she has become someone whom I look up to for her help, her vision, her kindness and her love for not only needle felting but most importantly her love and passion of the Australian animals and endangered animals worldwide.
I was lucky enough in my first conversations with Reena to ask a very timely question......Do you do kits? Luckily enough she was just putting together a kit for the Numbat and she was needing to trial it on someone. I quickly put my hand up and purchased my first needle felting kit.
As soon as it arrived I got stuck in. I quickly read through the instructions and quickly found that the instructions were not just the straight forward step by step instructions I was expecting but a collection of directions that helped direct you without telling exactly how to do it.
It allowed me to discover the wonders of how wool reacts, how to use my felting needles and also to make mistakes and fix them.
One of the first lines in the instruction manual was ‘The wool goes in the direction that you stab it.’ This is one of the best pieces of advice to give to a person new to needle felting, right next to ‘If you do break it (needle) then tools down until you find it. Cut open your sculpture immediately and retrieve it. The wound is easy to mend as needle felting is very forgiving.’
This very first kit set me on my wonderful travel through the world of needle felting and I haven’t looked back.
I still message Reena every now and then and ask advice which she is always willing to give. And her comments on posts on her Facebook pages encourages all to keep working, keep pushing and above all keep loving needles felting.
When asked where I started in needle felting I always say with a Numbat from a wonderful lady in WA, Australia, and I give them Reena Lee’s website.
The work Reena Lee has done for needle felting in Australia and worldwide is phenomenal because she has done it by bringing attention to the desperate problem we are facing with the endangered & extinct animals list growing in her wonderfully confronting sculptures.
Her love of animals and needle felting has allowed her to champion these critically endangered animals with her range of needle felting kits. her sleepy baby series brings these animals into the living rooms of everyday people and helps them to become aware of the problem we are facing.
All I can say is thank you Reena Lee.
Yours in Felting"
- Kylie Brooks
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
