Felted Wool Needle Minding Mini

October 7, 2016

This very little mini came about for a very practical reason- I wanted a place to put machine needles when I needed a different style of needle, but wasn’t ready to dispose of the one I had been using.  Wool is ideal to store needles in since it doesn’t dull them, so I thought this would be a fun place to experiment using this fiber.felted-wool-needle-minder-mini

A friend has a needle felting machine, so I brought some neutral colored wool roving with me to create the fabric for the off white stripe on this mini.  It was so much fun to see a bunch of loose fibers transform before my eyes into 100% wool felt!  The coral colored wool was a piece of fabric my mom donated from her stash, and I used decorative machine stitching to appliqué the needle felted wool in place.

The stitching was done entirely with my mechanical machine, so it is all carefully placed straight stitches to create the boxes and lettering.  My most used machine needle sizes are 10, 12, and 14.  The specialty needles I tend to use are ball point needles for knits (K) and a Microtex needles (M).  A couple rows of decorative stitching and a dense zig zag around the edges finish the mini.

Title:  Needle minding mini

Techniques: Machine needle felting

Quilting: Machine quilted using straight and decorative stitches

Fabric:  Felted wool and repurposed wool scraps

Batting: Warm and White

Thread: Mettler

Binding: Dense machine zig zag stitching

 

2015 Finish Along Q3

2016 FAL

1 Comment

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    Luke Smith
    January 11, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    I love this pink and white needle minding mini you made for yourself! Using a needle felting machine to make it sounds like a good idea, but nothing I would have thought of. It would be pretty neat to make my own felt for a project like this, so maybe I will look into buying a machine like that of my own! Thanks for the post!

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