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Needle Felted Keyhole Scarf

Needle Felted Keyhole Scarf

Needle felting blends warmly with embroidery in this fleece scarf decoration project.

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This project will demonstrate felting techniques on a fleece Keyhole Scarf. For the felting supplies, I suggest the Needle Felting Starter Kit, which provides you with needles, wool fiber, a punching pad, and even a little felt. You may also want to get a few sheets of felt in coordinating colors.

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Make printouts of "Snowflake-8" (sn-098) and "Snowflake" (XL14), and use them to lay out your decoration plan.

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For each large snowflake in your decoration plan, choose an embroidery color, and prepare a matching bobbin thread – both sides of the embroidery will show.

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Next, hoop the scarf for embroidery. Set the start point on the machine, and remove any marking dots or tape. Secure a piece of felt on the top and bottom of the hoop. Embroider the large snowflake designs through all three layers.

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Cut the felt away around the embroidery.

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Add water soluble topping for stability, and embroider small snowflakes directly on the scarf, once again matching bobbin thread to your embroidery thread.

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Now we're ready to felt. Place the embroidered scarf over a buffer material such as a block of polystyrene foam. To begin needle felting, just hold the barbed needle upright, and stab it downward, through the three layers of fabric and into the foam buffer. Do this repeatedly, all around the felt circle snowflakes. The needle barbs weld the felt fibers of the pieces together, and also pull some of the fibers from the top side through to the underside. To get the same pulled-through effect on top, just turn the scarf over, and repeat the felting.

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More felting comes next. Prepare the wool fiber for felting by pulling segments free and twisting them into strands between your fingers.

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Felt the twisted fiber down toward the snowflakes in a curvy, freehand pattern.

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Turn the scarf over, and felt matching trails into the opposite side of the scarf. Bits of fiber which have been brought through by the felting will guide your needle the second time. It's like sewing without stitches, and now your scarf has felted snowflakes and meandering fiber trails on both sides.

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To give your felting some staying power, spray it with water, and with an iron set to the "wool" setting, iron across the felted areas on both sides of the scarf.

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The finished scarf is a combination of a pre-made scarf, embroidery, and applique -- all brought together by needle felting.

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