#needlefelt #pumpkins Needle Felting Gnome Pumpkin: Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About (pillow or Hoop)

[Music] hi everyone i'm marie and we are coming to you live from living felt because it's happy woolly wednesday happy wooly wednesday and happy fall y'all i hope you're feeling all pumpkiny inside because today we are going to jump back into our pumpkin power and work on some really cute gnome pillows you can make a pillow or you can mount it in a hoop and we're going to show it to you on another color fabric as well this is a pick up from our lesson last week but we'll catch you up if you're just joining in so say hi and where you're from you'll see all our friends are chiming in over there in the chat and when you participate in the live chat you're entered to win a prize at the end but if you're watching the replay that's cool too because you can comment down below and you are also entered to win a prize so first i'm going to say hi to a few folks who are chimed in already hi to cara hi to margaret our early birds for the show thanks for showing up and getting everything going with us hi to linda in tennessee and andrea all the way in germany she says her lingua english isn't so good but she loves watching and we appreciate that you're here hi to lynette and minnesota and meredith in colorado hey to felicia and jorda georgia and susan in tennessee all these southern states have had so much water the last few days so we're glad y'all are here felicia oh i said hi to you oola in sweden ira louise all the way in the uk i know it's night time there like bedtime for me teresa dudick lauren and mayne and devin mccarroll and everyone else thank you so much for being here y'all just say hi as you're joining the show or watching the replay we so much appreciate you being here and i'm going to start off by giving away two prizes from people last week who commented after the show and those go to tammy raid and laura stidham thank you for everyone for your comments on our hello pumpkin so last week we made a hello pumpkin and this week we're making let's give them pumpkin to talk about and with me here are the most amazing fairies in all of woolly wonderland with a bunch of goodies lined up to share with you that you might want for today's project or something similar so please give a warm welcome to our fairies the first up is the lovely fairy anne and this kit is just so much fun so trish is helping me helping me out with it so today as marie said today's project is let's give him pumpkin to talk about i may have may not have been singing that song all day today perhaps to the wrong tune i don't know but um so this kit is gonna come with a with the full pattern for making a pillow pillow size it's also going to come with a written guideline for making the envelope back style pillow which marie's going to get into a little bit later this kit is going to come with all of the fiber needed to make multiple full-size pictures trish is there anything else that we're going to need for this project yes if you don't already have an arnold transfer pen you can upgrade your kit to include one we also would recommend the 12 by 12 earth harmony foam and 42 triangle needles and 40 triangle needles perfect and this transfer pen is really handy dandy if you're like me and can barely draw a straight line with a ruler that's pretty great next up is fairy angela hi everyone so i'm sharing um the background options that come with today's well that you can either that comes with it or you can choose for today's kit um so the standard kit comes with the half yard of graphite linen the other color options are forest mulberry and natural and the full so the standard kit will come with enough fabric to make one yeah one full pillow if you use the linen for the front and the back as marie will show you today or you can make two pillows if you use a different fabric for the backing of the pillows and there is also an option if you you know you don't want to use the fabric like this linen you have your own then you can choose to not get the fabric with the kit all right so up next is a lovely fairy alyssa [Applause] hello so if you're just wanting to needle felt the pumpkins from today we have a kit for that it's called hello pumpkin it was featured last week on woolly wednesday and it's perfect for doing anything from greeting cards to magnets it comes with a couple of different patterns so the possibilities are endless up next fairy kayla hey everybody fairy kayla here i have lots of goodies to show you today this is some of our fall decor actually we have around the shop for for those of you who haven't been to cs so i just wanted to share because we see it every day and i just love it so much so the goodies that are in here this is a loch net loch ness a silk blend bamboo top and pumpkin this is wild vine locks garnet angelina saffron sorry silk coco silk hankies this is viscose in prairie tussis silk in raspberry and these are olive naps down here so yeah they're tons of fun and super fall and before i get kicked off i did have a question for everybody do you know what the cutest season of the year is what is the cutest season of the year autumn i'll turn it back over to you marie can i just see a big round of hearts for the fairies this is our crew they pack your orders they make absolutely everything we sell they answer the phone they answer your emails and they always keep us smiling and laughing so we love them so much and we love you also so thank you for being here today today's going to be an interesting show we're going to do our best to do a bit of a recap and catch up everyone who is new from last week and get you to making your own either pillow or um you might want to make just a wall hanging or mount this in a hoop that's totally an option so i'm going to let's see let's just go to a little broader view here i know you can see everything on my table but this is our pillow now if you want to make this pillow in felt fabric instead of linen fabric like the felt that we sell then choose it the kit with no fabric and then buy the felt that you want um yeah or if you want a different color linen you can do the same thing we just kind of had to limit our options with the kit so this is the graphite and today we're going to look at how do we build from this lesson that we did last week and turn it into a pillow this pillow is an envelope pillow which means that the back it doesn't require a zipper you can just slip your pillow inside the cover and that minimizes the amount of sewing that you need to do if you choose this option so i'm going to be looking for you over in the chat looking for your questions there is a kit as the gals mentioned you can also get just the digital download if you want so if you get the kit this is what you're going to get and you can also get the digital download it will have a quick link back to the tutorial and it's also going to have the pattern which you're going to need for today and it will also outline how to do the envelope pillow instructions so you're going to want this pattern to do the imagery so i have mine and let's look real quick at how to transfer your image i'm going to do a quick flashback from last week so that you can see how we do our image transfer and um first here's just a quick look at our um pillow there for you oh i realize i've been talking uh over i've been talking down the whole time haha sorry about that um okay i hadn't switched the camera somehow um this is a look at the pillow and i'm sorry about that gapping that there this is what we're going to make today this is the envelope pillow so you can just slide it in or out we'll i'll demonstrate for you the steps you need to do that but make sure that you grab the handout now i brought here with me this is a project from i don't know a year or two ago so you could see how what the natural linen looks like with pumpkin pumpkins on it this was we did washable place mats and a table runner and i just wanted to show you the natural linen since the gals didn't bring that one in so first things first you're going to want to get your image and trace it onto your paper for those who weren't here last week i've got like a little one minute video here to show you how to do the image transfer so you get whatever design you're working with we use this iron-on transfer pen the design is just on regular paper like regular office paper and you can print this out on your inkjet or your laserjet or use the copy that comes in your kit you're going to trace over all the lines that are important to you or meaningful to you and anything that you don't want to trace well then just skip it and i'm going to show you that on mine here in a minute definitely favor towards the inside of the lines rather than on the outside and then cut out your design for placing onto your fabric last week we used 100 wool felt in olive green and that's what you're seeing now you use a hot dry iron with no steam and hold it in place for 20 seconds at each spot but you don't really need to slide it around just hold it in place and then peel back to check your design so peel it back if you're happy with it there you go that is your design very good okay so what we're going to look at that's different today is the one thing i want to point out to you is where to place your design on your pillow and what to do if your fabrics um somehow sorry i am botching this up here what to do if your fabrics are darker than the iron-on transfer pen we always get asked about the iron-on transfer pen and the the key is really that your iron-on transfer pen should be darker than your fabric and that isn't always easy to do last year we did um last year we did pillows where the fabric was darker was dark it was a dark charcoal felt and we instead traced around cardstock cutouts this year i want to show you something a little bit different when your fabric is dark but you might be able to see the pen so let's look here overhead here i hear this is on my gray graphite linen and if you can see on your screen and i'll check and see how your view is on that you can see some of the lines fairly well and some of them not so well this is going to come down to how much ink you put on that paper like you really want to get the right amount of ink onto your paper and you're not always going to get it right every time but there is an opportunity to go back and pick up some of those lines and that's what i want to show you however before i do that let me show you what it looks like on the color that i'm going to be working with today and this is the mulberry we're calling that one so it shows up pretty well and on this one i want to point out how we traced the stem see how it's just a single loop and we didn't go around the outside i would encourage that you consider when you go over your design doing that so that way you can lay your wool down on top of this and have a thin line if you want versus a very thick line and you'll notice here that i skipped it on my little pumpkin because on the drawing it's very stout and it's going outwards but i wanted the option to have a smaller stem if i wanted um and to point it a different way if i wanted so you can either skip it on the tracing or you can if you trace something you don't want you could just cut it out of the paper and just not trace over that so consider that uh the tracing part when you get to it only tran only trace over the things that you want now um i did see a question come through and i want to answer it um should you wash yeah should you wash the linen first um so if you want to launder this wash this would be a hand wash only pretty much or a very delicate wash with no centrifuge in your washing machine then it would help to wash your linen first so that it's shrunk up already yes okay so let's look at the image transfer and then i'll talk about cutting your fabrics and how to get yourself set up for the pillow because everyone's probably going to choose something a little bit different but let's look at what how to deal with it when your image is not quite as strong as you want i brought a couple of tools with me today some things that you might consider working with as little helpers so the first will be quite honestly just your your transfer pen already your iron on transfer pen put these black lines down and is going to show up on this color fabric it'll show up best so if i have weak lines i can go right over the top of them right now and put this down you could use another marker if you want but you might consider whatever is underneath so that it doesn't bleed through so you might put a piece of paper underneath if you have if you're choosing to use a strong pen or like a sharpie marker or something like that mostly stay inside those lines um and i'm hoping you all can see this people on phones may not may not be able to see it quite so well so i'll zoom in a little bit you can see how strongly that pen starts to show up here on the graphite and again i'm not going to be working on the graphite today so it won't be a struggle the whole time but i want to show you that this pen will lay nicely on top of this fabric more strongly than when we just do the iron-on transfer but this isn't your only option if you want to make that the lines pop a little more you can try something like these jelly roll pens i get them in white and you can trace right over the lines that you already have and put them right on to this fabric and they'll show pretty nicely so this is an example of the jelly roll g-e-l-l-y roll pen and this is the white one so it's a very thin line and it's not like a it's not like a paint pen so you'll be able to needle felt through it no problem jelly roll pen is an option something else you might like would be taylor's chalk and this would work these these options work on felt as well by the way so i should show you the the black ink is very difficult on something like this very strong [Music] dark bordeaux felt but the white will pop and then right here we have taylor's chalk so you can get this at your sewing shop and it's going to feel a little less accurate but it's also going to be a little less obtrusive than something like the jelly roll pen and you can just trace over whatever lines you want to stick up a little bit more and be a little bit easier to see it's more likely to brush off however so like i was recently working on these and i was flying on a plane i had used graphite pencil and it tended to rub off so the tailor's chalk will rub off too so that you might find that a benefit and you might find that a little more of a challenge depending on your fabric you could also choose a pen ink pen ink pen will show up better on the mulberry than on this graphite i've used it now one other thing i came across and i want to tell you about it and caution you about it and that i found this at my sewing shop this week it's a wax pencil actually and my grandfather used to write with wax pencils when i was a kid but this they call it a cut free invisible pencil which basically you peel the string back and you pull back this paper and expose this little wax bit now this will show up on here pretty nicely if you want to trace over if you want to sketch a design onto your fabric it's going to show up pretty well now they call it an invisible pencil but when i picked it up it was sitting in a jar that said iron away pencil for marking your quilt fabric and the thing i want to warn you about is that if you iron this on to get it off your fabric if you iron the fabric to get it off it will leave a wax mark so it's going to make your fabric look darker than when you left it so if you use something like this like a wax pencil product make sure you stay inside the lines of your drawing rather than outside so that later when you iron it to smooth everything out you don't have wax bleed out so it won't disappear it's not invisible because it's meant to iron away and it does rub but it can be rubbed off a little bit so i'll show you here's where we we have our lines you can rub it away if you put it somewhere that you don't want it but there is a risk that there's going to be some wax residue left and it's still going to be sitting on your fabric so consider that before using that wax pencil your goal really is just to get a nice good look at your design right you want to be able to see it okay i'm going to look for your questions the next thing i'm going to show you is uh the two i didn't pick a color for the for the dark green linen but i do have a couple of colors of thread here to show you i just chose this mettler it's 100 polyester thread i just go to my quilting shop i love shopping local with my quilt shop and getting what they have and for the graphite i chose color number 416 and again it's mettler and then for the burgundy one i chose color number i thought it was one i forgot already 108 108 so just find like a matching thread if you're going to make a a pillow make choose a matching thread and if you're going to be mounting in a hoop i'll show you this we this is a 12 inch hoop project so it'll fit really nicely i think into a 12 inch hoop and if it's pushing your borders a little too much maybe then you might want to reduce the image before you actually mount it because it really is going to pull through there a little bit so this is the mulberry the last thing i want to tell you for the image transfer is to consider this with your fabric so the kit comes with a half yard which is going to be 18 inches wide by 59 inches long you're going to get enough fabric to make this envelope pillow and have the backing fabric and have enough for another pillow face or one to mount at least if if you change the measurements you could get probably two pillows but here's the deal because you're going to be putting wool onto this fabric you should expect some of it to shrink in a little bit we are encouraging that the finished square of the design is 14 inches square so if you are not a gambling person you might want to start with a 15 inch square or 14 and a half inch square so that after you put your design on you can then trim it to a nice cool clean 14 inches that's up to you we are going for a 14 inch pillow and we're going to be using a 14 inch pillow insert that's going to give us this super stuffed look versus a baggy saggy look if you prefer yours looking a little less poofy and full then you can adjust the measurements a quarterly but accordingly i made a 14 inch pillow with a 14 inch pillow insert and we're going to after we put our design on we're going to have a 14 inch square so we're going to start with this plate right here and for those who missed last week i'm going to roll just a little bit of film to show you how we needle felt how we do the painterly pumpkin design there's really no difference between these pumpkins and these pumpkins that we made together last week in the way i did them we're going to start with a couple of blends we're going to outline the inner divisions with a dark gray and then at least the way i did them i sort of focused the dark concentrations of color at the bottom and towards the insides and then went with my orange and orange cream on the outside so for this kit that we're giving you today you get a lot more wool and you get a lot more colors you're going to get all of these colors in this kit 10 colors and you get a lot more wool than was in the hello pumpkin kit so you're going to be able to make a number of these the only thing you might end up adding is orange but i kind of have a feeling you won't run out so to catch everyone up let's look at how we make these pumpkins um and we're going to start by looking at what we did last week and i'm starting with two blends mandarin orange and clay and i'm going to make up a few blends just so that i have them ready and this is my style for uh just making these pumpkins look one a little painterly and two a little ruddy if you will just kind of a little dirty i don't know i like them looking a little uh rustic i think and then i'm blending um the orange with the dark chocolate and this is the hot orange with the oh both of these are blended hot orange hot orange and clay and hot orange and dark chocolate so start by tracing the inner divisions with the dark gray marilyn giselle i'll talk about i'll try and answer that question okay marilyn asked about stuffing the pillow so i'm going to do my best to remember that notice how we're just drafting out the wool to outline the inner divisions but we're not going to do it on the outermost portion of the pumpkins where it's going to feel like the light is hitting it a little bit more and for those of you who are watching and already saw this tutorial this part is going to be very brief we have a a total of uh four minutes to show people how to paint these pumpkins so after doing that layer the darkest layer next to the dark gray then i do the medium layer so that's the clay and the orange and then i'm going to blend just mandarin orange which is a solid orange for those who love orange later this year not we didn't make it in time for fall but i have new oranges coming i'm very excited okay so for the highlight here i'm just using orange cream anywhere you where you want it to be even brighter you can add a little bit of cotton white to make that a little more bright we're going to fill in this uh the coloring of the pumpkin a hundred percent you don't want to see any of the dark the background coming through that should be invisible so make sure that you cover it 100 percent and it's okay if it takes a couple of layers to do that so do it once with a draft and then you'll notice that i go back over and over and layer until i'm really happy so that i cover up any hard lines um just get the blending just right and have fun remember this this is not a rush at all so with these first two lobes of the pumpkin you'll see that i started painting um at the groove painting well needle felting at the groove and then layering towards the outside with the highlights and i'm using a 40 triangle and then also a 42 triangle that is my preference you can use whatever you like the reason i like to use needles that are not overly aggressive myself like a 38 star or 36 and some people love it so sometimes we i suggest it but i like to make sure that i'm not binding the fiber with my foam underneath and by using finer needles and taking a more gradual approach it allows me to not pick up my piece off my foam and also not worry that i'm damaging my foam this last lobe that i'm going to show you here the the middle lobe you'll see that i sort of layer all the fibers before needle felting anything and i wanted to show you both of these approaches and that both of them work especially if you're working in rather thin layers like this so here i'm just creating all of that shading and highlight and layering without needle felting yet and it's another thing that i really like to do is just kind of layer and patch together and then needle felt it down very easy to do both work really really well okay so you're going to needle felt all of this nice and flat make sure that um make sure that you get it all nice and smooth and take your time obviously in these videos we're moving very quickly and there is a lot more to needle felt than we show here um on the videos so go back over with your 42 triangle get it all really nice and smooth so that you're happy with it i want to show you one last thing before we jump to pumpkins on mulberry and start needle felting our gnome and that is to consider placement on your fabric especially if you're doing the pillow so just a few things to think about before we start needle felting on here okay i have my picture placed here on my mulberry fabric and um this one is cut to a 14 by 14 because i want you to be able to see how that all looks and i have him i wanted him to not sit on the bottom of the pillow and i didn't want this necessarily perfectly centered so it favors the bottom just a bit so here i have four fingers wide here and about a hand wide here and then on the side you have to decide how it feels uh where you want those but i kind of have the large pumpkin centered so think about that if um you want to give yourself a little wiggle room cut this to 15 inches let the fiber the fiber shrink up the fabric a little bit and then once it's all done iron it smooth and then trim it back to a cool 14 inches but i just wanted to show you that placement you might consider rather than centering this right on the middle because it feels like the pumpkins are on the ground to lower it even just a half inch or an inch towards the bottom and i think it looks a little more right on the pillow overall rather than this whole design being shifted up and the stems way up here so yeah let's switch to pumpkins on mulberry and get y'all to where i am which is right here so that's the only difference right here is i've needle felted these same pumpkins onto the mulberry fabric i have mine centered this is about three fingers this one is the 14 inch so it's like three inches here and three inches here i didn't give myself any more room and that's why it looks a little off to the side this is really solid felted in i haven't smoothed it all down with my 42 triangle but you can use a single 42 triangle or you can use a cluster at this point and just lightly shallow tack and smooth everything down now i'm going to start working on the gnome i chose green for his hat and just plain cotton white for his beard i didn't want i chose not to do locks i didn't want locks on this guy so for his hat i do like to trace these lines with the gray and highlight with the white and fill in with the green so i'm going to start on that and watch for your questions at the same time as they come up okay great you all are trying to decide what color of linens to use now this is our this is the gray this is the gray and i'm just going to um peel this out here and i'm going to uh trace over these lines so i just like to draft it i might use my little more aggressive needle for this one and i'm going to go ahead and just trace around all these lines so anchor let's see y'all might want to be a little bit closer probably okay hopefully that if that's nauseatingly close you'll tell me and we'll back it off so i like to just anchor part down and his hat has like a double little brim thing happening so i'm just going to trace this around and this will show me kind of how to guide my fiber as i lay it down so i know some of y'all last week already did the uh the hello pumpkin and lots of you got the hello pumpkin kit lots of uh pumpkin to talk about kits have been going out today too and if you feel like it's duplication remember you can always just get the pattern and add whatever colors you want you can add colors of fiber and colors of fabric if you want to make pillows and if you're going to be making pillows i really love to know i can't wait to see them when we did our christmas gnome pillows last year it was so fun to see all of the gnome pillows appear because there was a ton of them was it last year or the year before anyway so many and those kits continue to go out all year long so i know people are making gnome pillows it's such a fun way to add a little bit of festivity to your living room or your guest room or wherever your studio now look when you get to an end like this you can tear it off and you can cut it off but if you tear it off just put your finger there and tear it away and then you can kind of twirl and bury the rest i should have had this all traced out for y'all yes karen says are you actually outlining the hat i'm going to but in this case you can do the outside lines later but what i like are these little uh are these little swoop-de-doos and i don't want to add them in later so this is like we do a soft-serve hat right we call it our soft serve ice cream hat when we make our 3d gnomes and i wanted to do kind of the same thing in 2d so we have these little swoops going in and if you put them in first then you'll see them you can go back and add them but if you do them now then what's going to happen is you'll guide your wool around and your highlights around to kind of emulate that so i'll do my best to be very timely um so that you all don't fall asleep on me while i outline this hat i know that can feel probably painstakingly slow i am using the 42 triangle let's see kathy says oh y'all are asking about drawings yep you can use any drawing you want uh any any design you want um for your projects um you just print out your design onto regular paper uh remember if it has words or whatever that is going to be in reverse and um i trace over it with your iron-on transfer pen yep so amy says her kitchen and living room colors are cranberry and forest green how fun okay all right i know this is slow i like the look of it with an outline and you don't have to you could go back and add it after but i do like how it looks when it's outlined okay will you tell us how to finish the pillows on the backside tammy i will i'm going to squeak it in and so to tell y'all while i continue outlining this hat here's what i'm going to tell you we've been filming the little snippets of this although we're planning to to deliver it to you live obviously we've been filming the little snippets and our we filmed the creating the back panels and then i wanted to finish this pillow so i could finish filming that part for you and what we'll do is our goal is to make a condensed version of the tutorial so you can just go back and and reference those sections so the pumpkins of course will be from the hello pumpkin last week just to show you basically how to do your painterly pumpkins but um we'll snap nab video from our gnome today and then also how to do the back panels an envelope pillow is really easy and you do have some uh flexibility you so once you learn how to do it then you can just adapt that to whatever size uh pillows you want to make okay i'm making a mess up here but we'll fill it in and go back over it okay almost done with our outlining what size pillow insert if you want to um ssk yarners knitting podcast asks what kind of pillow insert for this project we chose a 14 inch uh square however this design would fit also on like a let's say a 12 by what 18 pillow or something that's a little standard you could make it wider rather than square you absolutely could you could make it bigger if you want but the fabric in this kit is uh the half yard is 18 inches wide so if you're making a pillow you'd want to treat that as the limiting factor or you could choose it with no fabric and choose your own fabric length from our linen or felt or whatever you want we did a home for the holidays pillow last year with wolf felt and i think it was a rectangular one so this this design would also work well on a rectangular pillow and you know honestly you could also repeat pumpkins if you want in your design you could absolutely repeat pumpkins okay so i've lost my little upsy part here and i'm just going to tack that down all right so for the green and here's my little hat so quick peek here's here's my little hat oh i think this one i treat i actually traced in dark chocolate but that's on the that's on the gray pillow so that makes sense so notice we're going to fill this in here and then go back over it with a little bit of our white so now that we have our tracing i'm just going to pull off a long length this is our true olive green okay terry burr says this is her first uh first 2d needle felt attempt um yep here we go okay so i'm just going to start with this all of you can start with it right at the top and now that it's outlined we at least have a starter there and this is what's really nice so i'm using our mc1 batting this is what comes in the kit if you have a sliver or a roving or a different kind of fiber it's going to behave a little bit differently if you don't have a batting you might want to mix it up a little bit so that it's a little easier to work with and manipulate and sort of create your own little mat of a bat but our mc1 batting is great for 2d or 3d needle felting it wet felts really really well and yeah so it's just real dreamy to work with like this because you can just kind of fill in the lines i am going to needle felt this flat for those of you who are seeing me leaving it sticking up really what we want to do is just kind of get it in place it's like when you're icing the top of a cake right you you don't get it a hundred percent smooth and in place the minute you put it down but you kind of get it where you want it to go and then we'll go back over and flatten it all out and add our white wispy bits okay um okay so you're asking about the stuffing of the stuffing of my pillow let's see who's asking about this hey who's asking about the pillow i want to answer you um hold on i want to see this it just went away so someone is asking how we got the the corner of our pillow so sharp and i would say yes it's the i'm just using a pre-stuffed pillow form and the only other thing is that i made the pillowcase the same size as the form no i cut my fabric the same size as the form so since there is a half inch margin the pillowcase is actually smaller than the pillow form measures and that allows it to be stuffed really really full so if your finished design if your pillow insert is 14 inches then you cut your design piece to 14 inches square before you sew it and it's going to be stuffed really full as opposed to stuffed kind of baggy which i've done before that's the only reason you know for the change i've done it before where it feels kind of baggy and that's the difference marcia hamill says she's still getting used to the different wools and how they work differently yes mc1 is kind of a unique product and we have it in over 90 colors by the way but we're working on some new colors this fall holiday they're not necessarily holiday colors as i mentioned just a few months ago i'm working on some more hot tones which i'm really excited about and some more blues so we're excited to bring some new colors in mc1 by far um the product that you all seem to want from us most okay thank you sally says she likes the shading on on the pumpkin that's so nice and y'all are mentioning you didn't want to have to have to hand stuff a pillow i get it you know buying pre-made pillow forms is really great i usually actually just get them in a pack of course you can probably get them at your sewing shop or joanne's if that's your your fabric shop you can also get them on amazon and they work out really well okay so we're filling in our little hat here and i kind of can already see that we're going to run over today i guess it just takes time to make a pillow doesn't it it takes time to to color with wool or to color with anything none of it really goes all that fast it's not the it's not necessarily a quick process um so tammy says is linen the best fabric or could you use cotton or could you use wool so yes again wool felt you could use you can use cotton expect more puckering with something like a more tightly woven cotton the thing with linen is it generally you can choose the weave and this is a medium and it's going to have a little more room for the weave to scoot and allow the fibers to pass through of course you could even use denim or burlap or whatever but just check the density when you choose these fabrics for what you want to do and especially the more tightly woven it is when you're needle felting give yourself room for the fabric to pucker because if it's really tight it's going to want to pucker and you might want to test that depending on how dense you're putting your material down and you might need a little leave a little more room in the perimeter as well if it tends to pucker on you okay so my hat is really really rough quite honestly which you expect since we're just kind of banging it out right here but what you can do is get it all nice and tacked down you can go back over it and add in your accents i'm going to fill in this last little part of the brim and we're going to add some white highlights knowing that the whole thing needs to be smoothed out and by smooth i mean flattened remember that even if you iron something like this to finish it ironing is not felting it may steam press it down for the moment but then the minute it dries out and people start handling it it's going to rough up again okay would lightweight flannel work sally yes i didn't bring it in it's in my office but last week i shared a little piece of lightweight flannel that i needle felted my pumpkins on i liked the design somebody else asked about a felt pillow and said something about would it be bulky yes we've made a hundred percent of felt pillows we have them here we've also done them with fabric back panels and that is really great fun because you can choose a you know if you choose felt for the face you can choose a thematic backing you know like our christmas ones we had just a really cute christmas themed fabric on the back now wherever we had our lines wherever you want you can go back and just add those again if you want to see them or you could wait until you put some of your white on top and for the white i don't know why we gave you so much white but we did for the white i like to just kind of ghost it that's my new phrase for talking about when we're just putting a very light light layer on i like to just kind of ghost it on top so that it seems to suggest movement it kind of suggests highlights and notice that we're doing it where we think the wool is that his little hat is kind of catching light so notice we go this way here we'll go this way here and here and it's just going to add a little bit of that feeling of that little ice cream cap and you can make yours um any way you like and then go back in and add the dark bits too but adding that tiny bit of highlight and of course when i get to these little fine refinements i'm gonna use my 42 triangle because i don't want to plunge it so that it starts to get straight lines in it i want it to kind of stay where i put it now veterans know watching me that this is still very much in draft mode and the whole thing needs to be filled in flattened fussed over and a bunch of detail put down meaning go back in wherever you want it wherever you want just a little more shading you can just darken those little spots and it's going to add character to your hat you might want to darken this little part right here rather than fill it in with green fill it in with gray so that it looks really cute and starts to get a little bit of character almost like a coloring or a painting or pencil like chalk pastel whatever so there you go that is the that's the draft version of his hat um for his nose and his skin tone this time last time we gave you latte this time we chose suntan we just like to break it up a little bit so i'm just going to plunker him down a nose now you can make yours bulbous if you want you can make it stick up and and have density by making a little bead i don't want to do that i want to press mine so i'm just going to fill it in just enough to make it round i don't want it mine to have dimension you for like for the beard you could choose locks but i didn't want mine to have that dimension i really wanted this to be a very flat flat pillow okay um okay so felicia aaron says um so the trick to not have a straight line is not to continue to felt it um felicia no is not to be not too felt it so that it stretches taut so if you stretch the line and then you use a very aggressive needle it's going to use a lot of force to push it push it down and is more likely going to take that soft layer that you put on there and stretch it so instead use a fine needle tack it down just on the surface whereas an aggressive needle is going to plunge it too far and stretch it straight so you want to felt it a hundred percent so that you can rub your hand across it and nothing moves this one is not quite there yet you want to felt it all the way please please felt it all the way okay i'm going to fill in his hand just so i don't lose it over here and um just go with your outline uh follow it just fill in your outline or go outside your outline and change it a little bit our guy is holding an acorn your guy can hold whatever you want or gal make a gnome girl or a gnome gal they can hold whatever you want but just kind of stay inside the lines and let's fill in that beard and then we'll um okay oh so someone said that this is very similar donna said it's very similar to um coloring with pencils or alcohol markers yeah i don't have a lot of experience with alcohol markers but before i came to felting i lived in colored pencil and i wasn't very good but i had a lot of fun with it that's for sure i wasn't very good but i had a lot of fun okay so i have the idea of a hand in there i'm gonna fill in this beard and for me i really just wanted a great big white beard i want it to be pretty flat and we could add dimension with gray so what's fun about this is you can do it any any way you want there are just no rules here so i am just going to fill all this in unlike i did with the hat i'm going to just fill it in and we'll let it be jagged down here i don't really worry about these lines that we have from the um drawing i just know that i want to kind of go past them and to get these straight lines you can poke this to a point here and then fold this back up and just have fun with that however you want to peek out the bottom of your beard and layer i know some of you are going to be dropping locks on there i will not be surprised to see that okay dara thank you so much she says she likes the pumpkins thank you so much um and i say have fun like over here with the beard part so what you might do is take your wool and just peek it a little bit like that and then let's give him some character and we can do that wherever we want it to have character so just kind of peek it out right here and bring it back in towards the face and then you can just tack those down you can always go back in and fill them in more but doing that is just going to give you a guide of where you want it to go and the same peeking idea can also be used in layers on top if you want especially if you want it to have more dimension if you want it to stick up more and have a little more of a relief you can continue layering and adding these types of things on now whatever you do just don't under felt these bits you're going to come have to come back over so that they're not rough and loose you want them to be really solid and firmly felted to your base fabric that's key okay now the arm here is questionable we lost our we actually lost our outline i better put him in there we lost our outline on this tracing and hey that happens so kind of go with the flow and don't worry about it and by all means do not try and put your image back down don't try and put your image back down if you didn't get that line well just surrender to it and go with the flow so i'm going to fill in by adding my sleeve just to the outside of the hand before before i want to do this before i get the rest of my beard in and wrap it around the top of the hand just back here to where it's going to flow kind of underneath his beard we just need to know that he has a hand holding on to this acorn i meant to trace that with y'all before we got too far but say lavi this is gnome land lots of things can happen in gnomeland there we go he has a hand he holds an acorn now let's get our let's continue getting our beard in here and i think i will drop one more in here and fill in up to his nose bring this in and we're going to outline our acorn right after this so the beard is up to you how textured and bushy you want it to be don't worry about covering up anything you've already done because you can always go back and re-outline retrace use your first pass of putting wool on like a draft if you will knowing that you can with this batting you can always go back and cover things up and refill in wherever you want like the nose here we'll just go back and refill in that nose when we're all done okay what about using sorry silk waste on the hat does it felt firmly to the base fabric sorry sill way sorry silk waste by its nature does not felt so please keep that in mind a couple of weeks back we used sorry silk waist for our little bee girl's hair um and that was just like a really it's not felted we just kind of anchored it to the wool underneath and anyone could pull it apart so just experiment with your materials because something like a pillow gets handled you're gonna have two different people sit on the couch where you have your pillow one person sees it and picks it up and appreciates it and pause it and the other person does not see it they don't appreciate it they're just not on their radar and they're just gonna lean against it put their feet on it you know do whatever they're not gonna see it as this beautiful thing that you spent hours making so whatever you do make it somewhat durable or out of the hands out of reach of people who aren't going to treat it with love and so when i i say that in response to the sorry silk waist because that is not going to lay down for you like wool will and um it's not going to stay in place like wool will so okay if it's up on a shelf so colleen asks would it help to wet felted attic at the end colleen you could but you know when i make things like this i would rather personally needle felt this 100 percent then go back and wet felt it but for those of you who want to wet felt it when you're done let me just give you a couple of tips the first thing is you still really should needle felt it flat don't skip needle felting it 100 on something like this linen and plan to finish the felting with wet felting i would encourage you instead that if you're going to wet felt it let it be because you really feel like you want to further you know lock the fibers in but i will tell you if you can do this and you don't see my design here roughing up you're doing a good job so don't worry about it too much if you get this little peeling here well then you know you can go back and needle felt it more you could also um you know spray starch it if you want i'm not a big starch user but if you want to wet felt it what i would do is get your soapy water and put your hand inside a sandwich baggie so wet this soap this and then just rub the design but make sure that you rinse all that soap out because um because you don't want a soap line left so you'll have to rinse the whole thing and then let it dry so you definitely can i'm going to do his pants leg down here you definitely can wet felt it after but i really often don't i'm just going to put in a little bulb down here for his pant leg so that i can get my beard over it and then we'll fill in the shoe and i see we're running over y'all so i thank you for your patience um it took a little longer than i thought to go over the things i wanted to cover with you but i will make a very concerted effort to condense this week's video this week's live and last week's live and our little sewing tips into something that's um becomes a good reference tool for those who need it and for those who don't really have the patience to watch this whole thing i get it okay rough little leg in there let's finish out our beard and again the beard needs more filling in but again we're just kind of making some little peaks with our wool i'm going to put another one like right here i don't need that part to be too thick because i have a lot of wool there already and then i'm going to fill this in underneath and kind of um i just kind of want it to come around i'm gonna fill white underneath here okay looking for your comments jennifer says she doesn't mind the run overs thank you so much it goes more than an hour sometimes i feel bad i know some of y'all gotta sign off and get on with your the rest of your life which might include kids and dinner or or bedtime i appreciate that and as always i just appreciate you being here helping to make my wednesdays more jolly more happy and to my sweet husband who usually is tuning in making sure i'm not falling over and off camera or whatever okay let me push him up a little bit we're getting close fill in the beard where you want um as i said you have way more wool in this kit than it will take to make a pillow so have fun with that i'm confident that you could make several of these panels like several with the wool that comes in the kit maybe next year we'll downsize the kit but for this year it's first year it's so far it's it's a pretty beefy kit fill in your beard everywhere that you want to like here where mine feels a little thin i'll probably put in some more peaks but i want to get in my acorn first we've given you a couple of browns so for this this part of the acorn i think i'm going to use a little clay and a little orange cream and i'm going to fill in this part of the acorn with that you can always add more color if you want but this is going to be my acorn color just blending just just stack and pull stack and pull stack and pull plop it down there you don't have to get it right and then you'll just be able to coax it everywhere you want i do think that the um the top of the acorn looks really cute with an outline and i see here that i probably wished i'd filled in my pant leg a little more again we missed ours a little bit on the tracing but you can definitely drop some color in there and fill it in if that's if that speaks to you and i'll fill in his hand too okay so i'm missing some of your comments one day i'll have i'll have a needle felting foam with a camera built in so i have my phone built in a little place for my phone so i can see what you're writing what you're saying okay the only thing that would make this better is if we were all sitting around the table together so i'm gonna just pretend that you're all here with me and that's exactly what we're doing all right for here i'm gonna fill this in with espresso brown just the the top of the acorn with espresso and then we'll just trim the whole thing with our um our dark chocolate and give it a nice little outline top and bottom thank you all so much thank you for being here thanks for your nice comments um i've missed something um that jamie is asking i'm missing what jamie is asking i don't know what that question is i can sometimes i don't see for a few rounds you're asking how tight or the weight and i don't know what you're asking so everything that i'm needle felting now however this is very much in draft mode and you're going to want to go back and and get it all nice and flat dense and flat so look let's trim with a little bit of dark chocolate it's going to make a difference if you just take these little parts take a tiny little wisp and just guide this around as you go you can give them a little peek you can give them some little lines in here and it's going to make it stand out a little bit better and then we can also we just want to give it a little more character and a little more dimension i think the dark lines can really help with that and then we'll wrap around underneath and make it look like it's got a little bit of depth right there we don't have to stop there okay we can add a little bit just maybe just to the very top and make that a little bit dark and you can bring your white back if you want just a smidge or you can also use your skin tone if you want but you can give it just a little bit of highlight there like just put a little dab of white on there it doesn't have to be too much and if it is too bright well then you can always go back and sometimes put a little something like this over top this is just the sand the um suntan skin tone just give this acorn a little bit of dimension and you want that line to have an arch to it just like this bottom line you don't want it to go straight across give it a little bit of an arch and bring in a little more of your dark but let it be like that ghost layer just a little bit of a ghost layer on there so that you can see the other brown underneath so add as much character to that little piece as you want you can fill in the leg i'm going to give them a brown shoe and the one thing i want to suggest with this piece so go back over the whole thing until you absolutely love it but i want to show you what i did on this gray pillow so not finished not finished right not finished but notice here that we put like a real dark line underneath and under this guy we kind of did the same thing so here i just added a little bit of a dark line underneath to make it feel like it's sitting on the ground and so you have black in this kit and you also have this gray so you might use the black or a black gray blend it looks like the gray we put in this kit is a little lighter than the hello pumpkin the hello pumpkin had river rock and this one looks like it has slate so i would blend the two just to get it a little bit darker and hey same with the hat anywhere you want the hat or anywhere you want shading rather than go 100 black then you could um blend these two so that it's not too stark and give yourself just a little more shadow anywhere where you want it to be just a little more dark and that's going to make everything above it pop out just a little bit more so let me do that there i would also do it underneath his shoe here needle felt it down and as you see we have it here underneath the pumpkins okay okay good you guys like the dark line very good yes a little bit of grounding and you can shade whatever you want under here and you could certainly do it first and then and then bring the beard back over the top that works also so have fun with that that was something i sort of figured out after i was felting but not when i created uh the drawing so that's just something to think about i'm gonna put a tiny one over his nose and actually i can't wait to to go home and finish this whole little thing tonight and and finish doing him so that is a look at our little pumpkin guy he needs finishing up he needs cleaning up but let me um explain to you how we're going to do the envelope pillow so finish your piece needle felt it a hundred percent and then what you're going to do is peel it off of your foam you shouldn't have any foam destruction especially if you use the finer needles like i did and then you're going to want to steam press it and trim it to the size you need for your pillow panel so we will finish this one up and i promise i will film that and add it to the condensed version if you get our pattern you're going to get all of this information the pattern or the kit you're going to get all of this information included inside it but to do the envelope pillow back so that you can stuff yours and make it like mine which is really really full you'll need a 14 inch pillow insert you're going to want to make your face pillow to also 14 inches cut once it's all done and then we're going to make two panels for the back and here's what they look like so they are the same width as the fabric which is uh 14 inches and then they're 14 inches wide the same width as your face panel fabric and then these ones i made 11 inches my first ones i made 10 which i think you could get two pillows out of a half yard if you do it but it's stretched a little bit so these are 11 inches and then what we do is we fold in a half inch and a half inch and i like to stitch a line here and stitch a line here so you'll make two of these 14 inches by 11 inches tall 14 inches wide by 11 inches tall fold in a half inch press clip fold in half inch press clip and then stitch again i like to stitch two lines so then um let me grab my where's my my pretend piece let's pretend this is my pillow face this is my pillow face and this is my gnome face so i'll put uh here this is my gnome pretend my gnome design is here so you're going to put your pillow face face design up let me go a little wider face up and then these are the pillow panels so i like to put the top one on first and you're going to have the beautiful hem side face down so right sides together oh i think this one's the right size hold on oh i was ready here we go gnome design up gnome design up top panel oh no i wasn't top panel on top first and then bottom panel on top next so you're going to hem those first and then you're going to ham around these sides so this one is wider because i made it wider before my design you'll want to trim that down so top panel on first they overlap this is a very generous overlap you could go less you could make these 10 inches like i did but what happened because i stuffed mine so full it's a little shallow you could put a button here if you want but i think one more inch is going to give you that overlap without it feeling a little bit stretched so these ones i cut to 10 these ones i cut to 11 and that will give plenty of room for a very generous overlap once you stuff that pillow okay so i'm gonna see what questions you have and promise to do my best to finish this now you don't have to um you don't have to make a pillow out of this you can choose to put this in a hoop we looked at this briefly you could put this in a hoop or you could um mount it to something else you know some other you could put it in a frame maybe you have like a little seasonal frame we made something like that a while ago so whatever you do have fun with it i hope that you'll share this with us and let us see what you come up with so and let us know your questions i hope you post your questions down below and i'm looking for a fairy anne here she is with magical prizes [Laughter] so anne as promised has been writing down names um for of everyone who's been participating in the live chat and lots of fun lots of good comments today huh yeah you all kept me laughing i can't wait so what i do on wednesday nights i go back and like read everything that you all wrote and then on thursdays i try and read all the comments that are after the live show so i can't wait to see yours and tonight i'm going to go home and finish mine and we'll we'll finish up another pumpkin to talk about okay and so what are we giving away today today we are giving away a pumpkin to talk about kids we're giving away two we're giving away two okay two we're going to draw two names out of the magic pumpkin right now all righty this pumpkin's pretty old you know it's that pumpkin it precedes you it does it has been around a long time okay you ready i'm ready okay who you got i have got jackie burns and i have jane miller so congratulations gals and thank you everyone hey if uh we drew your name and you're not already a customer ever bought anything from us jump over to our website uh go down to the contact us page and check us out there uh if we didn't draw your name don't worry leave a comment down below let us know your favorite take away and or maybe even another project you would like to see this year and you were also entered to win a prize make sure you tag us on uh line and let us see what you made so we can share it too and where should they join us ann you should join us on the facebook group living felt friends yay and hey i want to tell you so many of you know we have an online school it's called feltingtutorials.com we're having a back to school sale all month long 20 off off almost all our classes and we do have new classes coming too those of course will uh we'll have early bird specials for those so get in the school registration is absolutely free but we have some great classes and you may as well add them to your cart now because once you're in a class it's yours to take as many times as often times as you want it will not expire and it's 20 off all through september that's like a big big fat savings okay y'all thank you so much thank you so much for being with us today we can't wait to see your nomi pillows and we'll wrap up this condensed video just as soon as we can maybe after the holiday maybe before awesome all right we'll see you next week guys thank you so much bye

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Published: Wed Sep 01 2021