Felting wool patterns for beginners

If you like to draw and do something with your own hands, it's time to try an interesting art form - felting paintings from wool. Having learned this simple form of needlework, you can decorate it with an interior, as well as present your work as a gift.

Felting a picture of wool on our own

The first thing to learn: even an untrained person can do wallowing. All that is required is enthusiasm and a small set for this lesson:

• multi-colored wool;
• ordinary frame for paintings with glass;
• non-woven or flannel fabric;
• tweezers.

Having prepared everything you need, you can begin to work.

1. Remove the glass from the frame, leaving only a wooden base. Then measure the prepared fabric by its size, fix it.
2. Take one of the colors of the wool and evenly distribute it on the fabric. You can use tweezers, but it is easy to do without it, sorting the wool with your hands.
3. Pulling small pieces of wool, as if plucking them, one by one lay them on the fabric. You should get something like the background of the future picture. Therefore, choose neutral coat colors.
4. Next, select a different color. According to the picture you want to receive, lay out the next step. It can be a vase of flowers or snow against a blue sky. For the first time, a slightly blurred picture of the landscape is more suitable. Pull out small pieces and form snow, moon and trees with tweezers.
5. The next stage is the Christmas tree in the foreground. It can be made by mixing brown wool with dark green. Using the same tweezers, draw the branches.
6. You can also add a snow-covered hut. Having laid it first with brown hair, and then with white wool, apply snow.
7. Show your imagination by felting a picture of wool and add something of your own. Fix the finished work under glass in the frame and decorate the interior.

Tips for beginners

Since we are just learning to create wool painting, use the tips on dry felting wool paintings for beginners.

1. While working, press the picture with glass from the frame. This will allow you to evaluate how accurately the work is done. Indeed, in the end it will be just under the glass, so it’s reasonable to navigate and look at your product just under it. Thus, you will see all the irregularities, too thick a layer of wool and how the drawing will look in a pressed form.
   
2. Do not forget about the shadows of objects when felting paintings from wool. Just as if you were painting with paints. Shade at home, animals, make highlights using light shades of wool. This will give the items the desired volume.
3. If something went wrong, everything is easy to fix in this art form. Just remove the layers of wool you need and edit the image. Felting paintings of wool is quite possible.

Ready sets for felting

Now all kinds of shops for needlework offer various options for ready-made kits. The set for felting wool paintings includes:

• wool;
• sketch of the picture;
• the cloth;
• frame with glass.

Prices vary depending on the complexity of work and size. The simplest sets can be purchased from 2000 thousand rubles.

Experiment, create and enjoy the result!