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Felted Toadstool Keyring



These are very cute and easy to do, and good introduction to making 3D needle felt.

 You will need:
Hand scoured wool and Merino roving in a variety of colours
Felting mat/foam
Felting needle
Keyring
1. Place your foam felting pad onto a hard surface, such as a tray or a table and lay out your supplies.  Run the wool through your fingers - you will notice a distinct difference between the two types of wool.  The red merino is much softer than the coarser white wool.  We will be using the white wool first.
2. Pinch off a piece of your white wool, and draw it out between your hands to make a long narrow piece.  Starting at one end, begin to roll it up like a bandage.

                                          

3. Roll the wool as tightly as possible, so that the roll is quite firm.  Poke the needle into the roll every couple of turns to help it to stick together.  When the roll is complete, you should have something shaped a bit like a small sausage roll.

                                         

4. Prod the toadstool stalk until it feels very firm.  Where the needle stabs the wool, you will notice an indentation appearing.  You can use this technique to shape the stalk.

                                                     

5. Now onto the cap of the toadstool.  Take another piece of the coarser wool, and roll it gently between your hands to make a ball.  Stab it gently with the needle, starting at the outside of the ball and then moving inwards.  If you find the ball becomes too flat in the center and you lose the shaping, use a bit more of the coarse wool to build up the center a bit more.


                                                 


6. When the cap is quite firm, remove it from your felting mat.  This is how the piece should look from the side by the time you have finished this step:

                                                
7. Next, take a pinch of your red merino and spread it over the cap of your toadstool.  About this much should do it:

                                   




8. Begin to needle the red merino into the cap.  You will find that as it is finer, it takes a bit more stabbing to make it behave.

                            


9. Continue stabbing to felt the red wool to the top of the toadstool until the whole thing is covered and you can no longer see any white.  You may need to add more red roving to achieve this.

                            

This is how the underside of the cap will look when you are finished:

                           



10. To attach the stalk to the cap, place the stalk onto the reverse side of the cap in the place where you would like it to stick, and jab diagonally down through the stalk and into the cap.  This will pull the fibres of the stalk down into the cap so that they stick the stalk on.


                                            



11. Next, roll some small pieces of white roving between your fingers to make tiny balls of wool.  Needle the balls of wool into place on the red cap of the toadstool to make little white dots.

                            

12. When your toadstool is completed, stitch the keychain into place.
You have completed your project!  



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