Category: Spring And Easter Crafts

FUN AND COLOURFUL NEEDLE FELTED CHICKEN

Improve your needle felting techniques and add a needle felted chicken to your creative menu. Calorie and guilt free but hours of fun! You will also learn how to needle felt a perfectly smooth finish; the Holy Grail of needle felting

The key to this project is getting a good shape and perfectly smooth finish and I am going to show you exactly how to achieve it, with easy step by step instructions and more photographs than you can shake a tail feather at. Suitable for confident beginners and more experienced needle felters.

SHOP NEEDLE FELTING KIT

SHOP WOOL BUNDLE – NO TOOLS

SHOP PATTERN DOWNLOAD

Scroll to bottom of page for video tutorials.

Daphne is wonderfully adorable and so much fun to make. Detailed instructions (more than 4,500 words), 110 step by step full colour photographs, plus lots of different needle felting techniques; including perfecting your shapes and getting a super smooth finish. Available as a complete needle felting kit, or wool bundle if you already have the tools.

Makes one large chicken (approximately 13cmH x 18L) or two smaller ones. Also includes downloadable pattern which is for personal use only.

To purchase pattern separately CLICK HERE

MAKE TIME: 4-5 hours. See description below for more details.

KIT CONTENTS – YOUR PATTERN WILL ARRIVE DIGITALLY VIA EMAIL BUT PLEASE SELECT THE OPTION IF YOU WOULD ALSO LIKE A HARD COPY IN YOUR KIT

• Downloadable pattern plus option for printed pattern
• White core wool approx. 20-25g for body, head, and neck.
• 10g white carded batting for covering the body and making the wings
• Pinch light brown wool for eyes and eyebrows
• Pinch of orange for the beak
• 2g of contrasting colour for the crown and waddle
• 5 thin pieces of wool tops (bright colours) for the tail
• 2 x Standard felting needle – size 38 is a good all-rounder
• 1 x Fine felting needle – size 40
• Wooden BBQ skewer (or similar) for shaping the head – optional
• Felting mat

All you will need are a pair of sharp scissors.

WOOL BUNDLE CONTENTS

• Downloadable and printable instructions
• White core wool approx. 20-25g for body, head, and neck.
• 10g white carded batting for covering the body and making the wings
• Pinch light brown wool for eyes and eyebrows
• Pinch of orange for the beak
• 2g of contrasting colour for the crown and waddle
• 5 thin pieces of wool tops (bright colours) for the tail

YOU WILL NEED

• Standard felting needle – size 38 is a good all-rounder
• Fine felting needle – size 40
• Wooden BBQ skewer (or similar) for shaping the head – optional
• Felting mat
• Sharp scissors

WATCH THE VIDEO TUTORIALS

PART 1 – BODY

PART 2 – WINGS

PART 3 – FACE, CROWN, WATTLE AND TAIL FEATHERS