making a ring in needle-punched carded wool
An unusual flower ring in carded wool...
You will need
- Fern green felting wool
- Black felting wool
- Felting needle
- Needle felting foam pad.
Making the petals (1)
Take three thick pieces of fern green wool, 3.9 inches long, (photo 1). Place them in a star shape on the foam pad (photo 2) Then needle punch the spot where the 3 pieces come together (photo 3).
Making the petals (2)
Fold back the end of a petal to the center of the flower (photo 1) and needle-punch it along its entire length. Fold back all the petals in the same way (photo 2). Turn the flower over and needle-punch it all over (photo 3).
Making the band of the ring (1)
Take a 3.9 inch long piece of wool (photo1) Needle-punch it over its full length (photo 2) so as to make a good, hard sausage-shaped piece of wool (photo3).
Making the band of the ring (2)
Choose the correct finger size for the sausage-shaped piece of wool (photo 1) Once that's done, needle-punch the sausage-shaped piece of wool to make the ring band (photo 2). Needle-punch the ring band all over to harden the wool (photo 3). Needle-punch the completed ring band to the underside of the flower (photo 4).
Making the center of the flower
Take a thick piece of black wool, about the size of a walnut. (photo 1). Work at it until you have a ball. Fix the ball to the petal by vigorously needle-punching all the way round the ball (photo 2).