Needle Felting

Hi loves!
Today I wanna share with you a crafting(?) technique that I learned a year ago at a workshop by my friend Lu. I got to attend this year as well and I thought it'd be nice to talk a little bit about it and show you the things I've done.

But first of all, what is needle felting?
It is a technique that uses wool fibers to make beautiful creations by coming in contact with each other with the help of a needle. Hundreads of fibers are locked together causing the wool to felt.

What do you need?

Wool (there are different kids tho)

Felting needles (you can also find different kinds)

A cushion to work on

Even tho my explanation is not the best one, it gives you an idea, right? You can find more (and better) info online tho.

Now that we know a tiny little bit of this technique, let me show you the things I've made~

Last year when I first went to the workshop we learned the basics and made some christmas ornaments. I already had some felting things that I got from Lu and I always thought it was such a complicated technique. Not saying that is super easy but is not too hard once you get a hold of it. It is very time consuming tho and of course, as you practice, you can make prettier things.
Even tho I only know the basics, I'm proud of what I've done.

The very first thing I made was this Christmas ball, I chose these colors so it could match my pink tree.

Then I tried a teddy bear. Well, just the face. And to be honest, I think it's adorable! I wanted something not too Christmasy so I could have it on display all year long.

I didn't want those to be my only felting babies so, after the workshop I decided to make these bunnies. Can you tell who they are?

Simon & Gaspard

And well, on this last workshop I learned another way to work the felting and made a 3D frame thingy.

There are so many cute things you can do using needle felting. I'm gonna link my friend Lu's SNS for you guys to check her work, she's very talented! You can also find information about future workshops if you're interested.

Lume Felper on Facebook
Lumefelper on instagram

Old vlog about the 2018 needle felting workshop

Japanese Arts & Crafts Workshops

Hello my loves!
On November 9th we celebrated my best friend's birthday attending to a festival that her former school, MOA,  was holding. It was such a nice and fun way to celebrate her birthday, learning and sharing something that's very special to her.

As some of you know, I'm not that much of a crafty person. I enjoy it but I'm not really good at it. I've been trying and it's been fun.

This event had different workshops including Japanese caligraphy, cooking class (which I missed because I arrived a little late... They made sushi and mochi!), flower arrangements and pottery.

Making sushi

The price for these workshops was actually very, very affordable, they gave you all the materials you needed and you got to take your finished product home with you.

We started with the Flower arrangement workshop. It was actually a lot of fun! I even got to do origami which I suck at! But I'm proud to say my flowers turned out ok-ish. Hehe.
We enjoyed the process and laughed a lot and well, we took pretty nice flower crafts home with us.
I loved how the teacher talked about the whole process, you could tell she really liked and enjoy what she was doing.

a little blurry...

Then we moved on to the Pottery workshop, and this is something Lu is passionate about so we were looking forward to try.

The teacher explained us the techniques we could use to make a vase or a bowl type of thingy.

I only had time to make one because well... it me! But some of my friends made more than just one piece. It was very relaxing to work with the clay (hoping that's what it's called), mold it and decorate it. Of course that was the "easy" part, the teachers took care of the rest and we're supposed to get a call to go get out final piece. I'm excited to have my own handmade pottery piece! I'll share it with you guys as soon as I get it.

I found it so nice and relaxing~

And well, as far as I know they have other events too that I think can be worth checking out! I am definitely curious to go to more of these workshops and learn new things. Who knows, maybe I'll end up taking classes someday! Hehe.

There's a vlog of this experience here if you wanna check it out. Also click here to learn more about MOA and what they offer.

I'll see you net time!♡