PasteCrafts » 100% wool http://www.pastecrafts.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:22:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Needle Felting~ Wool Roving http://www.pastecrafts.com/2009/08/needle-felting-wool-roving/ http://www.pastecrafts.com/2009/08/needle-felting-wool-roving/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:39:52 +0000 katie http://www.pastecrafts.com/?p=134 roving

Paste is super excited to stock needle felting supplies! We’ve been told finding needle felting supplies in St. Louis is like looking for that dang old needle in the haystack! So, We’ve stocked up. We have over thirty colors of wool roving and more on the way! We also offer a variety of 100% wool felt. We are also super excited to offer needle felting classes.

What is needle felting you ask?

Needle felting is a process which uses barbed needles to interlock wool fibers to form a more condensed material. Wool fibers have scales which when rubbed against each other catch and lock into place to create this denser material called felt. Felting needles are used to entangle the fibers. As the felting needle is moved up and down, the barbs on the needles catch the scales of the wool and entangle them into place.

In other words you can make super cute stuff like this: needle-felted-cupcake

Or this:

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