Needle felting with dog hair

Most pet owners have no lack of pet fur. It's on our furniture, our clothes, and even up our nose sometimes. Ever wondered if there's something constructive you can do with all that hair? There is! Felting is a simple craft that makes use of all that shed to construct cute fabric objects. We'll be looking at how to felt a cute heart from pet hair. Supplies: Pet hair Metal cookie cutter Felting needle (this is different from a standard sewing needle! Look for the barbs) Sewing needle…

This is a throw back post I thought you might enjoy because there have been a few people asking on Facebook about felting with dog hair. Just like sheep there are different kinds of dog hair and ev…

You may be surprised to know that this is a question that comes up fairly often. Can you felt with pet hair? For pet lovers around the world the idea of using their beloved pets excess hair seems…

Our dogs shed a lot but instead of cursing them, I decided to make a spun pet hair heart using all the fur that our babies discard so lovingly all over our home. This tutorial will show you how you can turn your fur baby's shed hair into a precious keepsake and includes a video tutorial that will show you how to comb and spin pet hair. #PetCrafts #ACraftyMix #PetKeepsake

Ever wondered how to get those luscious layers of long fluffy fur on your needle felted animal? more importantly how can you get them to look natural and stay put!? Whilst making a badger I took so…

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Now I don't profess to be an expert on this, but Louise asked if needle felting was hard, so I'm going to show you how I do it. I didn't use an armature on Hyacinth, but I am using one here for this dog. Cut two pieces of pipe cleaner 4" long and one piece 3 1/2" long. Bend them into the shapes shown. It should end up looking like this. See, two leg parts and one head/body/tail part. Now twist the leg parts around the body part. With a few bends in the right places it's already starting to…